2019 in Mexico

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Events of 2019 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels and includes a brief year-end summary of major social and economic issues.

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Incumbents

President and cabinet

Supreme Court

Governors

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

President of the Chamber of Deputies

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June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Awards

2019 in Numbers

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Economy

  • Balance of Trade: According to INEGI, exports increased 2.3% in 2019, giving Mexico a US$5.82 billion trade surplus.[441]
  • Direct Foreign Investment (IED): USD $27,823.[442]
  • Exchange rate: Estimated close MXN $19.26 per US$1.00.[443]
  • GDP ranks: The World Bank nominal ranking places Mexico at No. 15 in absolute terms and No. 69 per capita (US$10,118; MXN $191,678). The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) places Mexico at No. 11 total and No. 68 per capita.[444]
  • GDP (PIB): €840,025 (MXN $17,655,267) for the first three quarters of the year.[445] INEGI report in January 2020 that the Mexican economy contracted by 0.1% in 2019 after growth of just over 2% in 2018.[446]
  • Inflation rate: 2.93%.[442]
  • Interest rate: 7.25%.[443]
  • Mexican Stock Exchange: 3.3% growth from January–September 2019; close at 43,011.27 points on September 30.[447] 44,300.17 points and 32,194,052 shares traded on December 26, 2019.[448]
  • Minimum wage: MXN $102.68 daily (16% over 2018).[449]
  • Population economically active (15+): 57,349,577 (60.2%).[450]
  • Unemployment rate (November 2019): 3.5%.[450]

Education

Population

126,577,691 inhabitants with a life expectancy of 75.1 years (#66 in the world), according to the Consejo Nacional de Población (National Population Council).[452] Mexico is the 10th most populous country in the world.[453]

Violence

  • Murders: INEGI reports a total of 36,478 homicides in 2019, a rate of 29/100,000 inhabitants, basically the same as in 2018. Guanajuato had the highest number (3,974) and Yucatán the lowest (45). Colima had the highest murder rate, 105/100,000 inhabitants.[454]
  • Femicides: Of 2,833 women murdered by September, 726 (25.6%) are investigated as femicides.[455]
  • Law enforcement officers killed: 426 as of December 20.[456]
  • Activists and journalists killed: 10 journalists and 12 activists were killed in Mexico in 2019.[457]
  • Politicians assassinated: Six mayors[458] and at least four other politicians are murdered during 2019.[459]
  • Missing persons: 61,637; 97.4% since the beginning of the Drug War in 2006.[460]

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March

April

8,943 people were murdered between January 1 and March 31, 2019, a 9.6% increase over 2018.[497]

May

  • May 2: Telésforo Santiago Enríquez, radio commentator in Oaxaca; murdered.[457]
  • May 6
    • Ramón Amauri Vela and Luis Octavio Reyes Domínguez, executives with Typhoon Offshore, died in an airplane crash in Coahuila.[505]
    • Ramón Randey Dorame, 39, baseball player (b. 1979)
  • May 7: Rafael Coronel, 87, painter (b. 1931)[506]
  • May 11: Wrestler Silver King, 51, younger brother of Dr. Wagner Jr, died of a heart attack during a wrestling match in London.[507]
  • May 16: The body of former Morelos governor Marco Adame's brother, Humberto Adame Castillo, was found in a ditch in Alpuyeca, Xochitepec. Unofficial sources say Humberto had been kidnapped.[508]
  • May 17: Julio Ulises Hijuelos Cervera (Mago Chen Kai), magician (b. 1939)
  • May 18: Osvaldo Batocletti, 69, technical director of the Tigres Femenil soccer team, died from prostate cancer (b. September 22, 1950).[509]
  • May 22: The strangled body of Nataly Michel, 25, who was a contestant in Enamorándonos on TV Azteca, was found in her house in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.[510]

June

  • June 2: José Antonio Leal Doria, Morena at-large candidate for Deputy, dies as 7:00 a.m. of cancer the day of the election.[511]
  • June 9: Mercedes Pascual Acuña, 88, Spanish actress (Cuna de lobos (1986) and Teresa (1989)) who lived in Mexico (b. 1930)[512]
  • June 10: Environmentalist José Luis Álvarez Flores, 64, murdered in Palenque, Chiapas[513]
  • June 11: Journalist Norma Sarabia of Tabasco was murdered outside her home. She is the sixth Mexican journalist killed this year.[514]
  • June 13: Edith González, 54, Mexican actress (Las noches de aventurera (1998), Corazón salvaje (1993-1994), and Monte Calvario (1986)), ovarian cancer (b. 1964)[515]
  • June 14: Luis Gerardo Hernandez Valdenego, 31, was shot and killed in Guanajuato by unidentified assailants riding motorcycles. In January 2015 Hernandez Valdenegro had been sentenced to 29 months in prison for the beating of journalist Karla Janeth Silva in September, 2014, but a judge released him after implicating the mayor and police chief in the beating.[516]
  • June 21: Chilpancingo businessman Misael "El Tigre" Marin is shot and killed. His brother had been kidnapped at one point, and his accountant was killed in May.[517]
  • June 23: George Rosenkranz, 102, Hungarian-Mexican chemist who specialized in steroids and grand master of Duplicate bridge (b. 1916)[518]
  • June 27
  • June 29: Lupita Hernández Pérez, 29, is an apparent victim of femicide in Iztapalapa.[521]

July

The first semester (January—June) of 2019 is the most violent in history, with 17,608 murders, an average of 102.6 daily.[522] June was the most violent month in Mexican history, with 2,249 murders.[523]

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September

October

A report published October 24, 2019, by El Economista shows that Nuevo León (54%), Sinaloa (41%), and Morelos (40%) are the states with the greatest increases in murder rates during the period July–September 2019. Baja California Sur showed the greatest decrease (-60%).[565]

November

December

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