2017 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2017 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Enrique Peña Nieto, Institutional Revolutionary Party,

* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
**Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until January 4
**Luis Videgaray Caso, starting January 4
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza
* Education Secretary (SEP): Aurelio Nuño Mayer
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Alfonso Navarrete Prida
* Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR): Luis Enrique Miranda Nava
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Enrique de la Madrid Cordero
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Rafael Pacchiano Alamán
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Narro Robles
*Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP)
**Luis Videgaray Caso, until November 27
**José Antonio González Anaya, starting November 27

Governors

* Aguascalientes: Martín Orozco Sandoval
* Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid
* Baja California Sur: Carlos Mendoza Davis
* Campeche: Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas
* Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello
* Chihuahua: Javier Corral Jurado .
* Coahuila
**Rubén Moreira Valdez , until November 30
**Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís , starting December 1
* Colima: José Ignacio Peralta
* Durango: José Rosas Aispuro
* Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez
* Guerrero: Héctor Astudillo Flores
* Hidalgo: Omar Fayad .
* Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval
* State of Mexico
**Eruviel Ávila Villegas , until September 15
**Alfredo del Mazo Maza , starting September 16
* Michoacán: Silvano Aureoles Conejo
* Morelos: Graco Ramírez .
* Nayarit
** Roberto Sandoval Castañeda , until September 18
** Antonio Echevarría García , starting September 19
* Nuevo León: Jaime Rodríguez Calderón ("El Bronco") Independent, until December 31.
* Oaxaca: Alejandro Murat Hinojosa .
* Puebla
**Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas , until January 31.
** José Antonio Gali Fayad , starting February 1.
* Querétaro: Francisco Domínguez Servién
* Quintana Roo: Carlos Joaquín González .
* San Luis Potosí: Juan Manuel Carreras
* Sinaloa: Quirino Ordaz Coppel
* Sonora: Claudia Pavlovich Arellano
* Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez
* Tamaulipas: Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca
* Tlaxcala: Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez
* Veracruz: Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares
* Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello
* Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes
* Head of Government of the Federal District/Mexico City: Miguel Ángel Mancera, Independent

Events

January to March

*1 January – Consumers are concerned about abrupt increases in gasoline prices, known as ''el gasolinazo''.
*18 January – Colegio Americano del Noreste shooting; a 15-year-old student shoots a teacher and three classmates in Monterrey.
*12 March – Former Interim governor Flavino Ríos Alvarado of Veracruz is arrested for covering up his predecessor´s, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, crimes and helping him escape.
*13 March – SEP announces educational reform measures.
*14 March – A mass grave site of more than 250 people is discovered in Palmas de Abajo, Veracruz.
*16 March – Prison escape in Culiacán.
*31 March – A driver crashes after driving his car per hour on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City.

April to June

*10 April – Former Tamaulipas governor Tomás Yarrington, (PRI), is arrested in Italy, charged with plotting the murder of gubnatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú in 2010.
*15 April – Former Veracruz governor Javier Duarte, (PRI, 2010-2016) is arrested in Panajachel, Sololá Department, Guatemala.
*21 May – A 42-year-old Russian Nazi kills a 19-year-old man in Cancun after a mob tries to lynch the Russian. He had earlier posted anti-Mexican racist comments on YouTube, but authorities refused to deport him.
*4 June – Elections
**Gubnatorial election in the State of Mexico, won by Alfredo del Mazo Maza (PRI).
**General elections in CoahuilaNayarit; Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís (PRI), elected governor.
**General elections in Nayarit; Antonio Echevarría García (PAN), elected governor.
**Municipal elections in Tlaxcala and Veracruz.

July to September

*August – Hurricanes Franklin and Katia; the latter kills two in Veracruz.
*21 August – A partial solar eclipse is visible.
*7 September
** A magnitude 8.1 earthquake hit off southern Mexico coast, 300 injuries, 98 people killed, and tsunami have surrounding warning issue.
**The Chamber of Deputies ends a logjam.
*19 September – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes central Mexico, killing more than 200 people.

October to December

* 10 November — At 7:25 local time, eruption of Popocateptl continues.
*18 to 20 November – Sales for ''El Buen Fin'' are less than anticipated.
*25 December – An earthquake in Acapulco of 5.0 magnitude triggers the alarm in Mexico City, but no injuries or damages are reported.

Holidays, and observances

*January 1 – New Year's Day, statutory holiday
*January 6 – Feast of the Epiphany
*February 2 – Feast of Candlemas
*February 6 – Constitution Day, statutory holiday
*February 14 – Day of Love and Friendship
*February 20 – Mexican Army Day, civic holiday
*February 23 to 28 – Carnival in Mexico
*February 24 – Flag Day, civic holiday
*March 8 – International Women's Day
*March 18 – Anniversary of the Mexican oil expropriation, civic holiday
*March 20 – March equinox
*March 21 – Benito Juárez's Birthday, statutory holiday
*April 9 to 15 – Holy Week
*March 13 – Holy Thursday
*March 14 – Good Friday
*April 21 – Heroic Defense of Veracruz, civic holiday
*April 30 – Children's Day
*May 1 – Labour Day, statutory holiday
*May 5 – Cinco de Mayo, civic holiday
*May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's Birthday, civic holiday
*May 10 – Mother's Day
*May 15 – Teachers' Day
*June 1 – Mexican Navy Day, civic holiday
*June 18 – Father's Day
*June 20 – June solstice
*September 13 – Anniversary of the "Heroic Cadets", civic holiday
*September 15 – Cry of Dolores, civic holiday
*September 16 – Independence Day, statutory holiday
*September 30 – José María Morelos's Birthday, civic holiday
*October 12 – Day of the Race, civic holiday
*November 1 – All Saints' Day
*November 2 – Day of the Dead
*November 20 – Revolution Day, statutory holiday
*November 26 – Feast of Christ the King
*December 12 – Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
*December 16 to 24 – ''Las Posadas''
*December 21 – December solstice
*December 24 – Christmas Eve
*December 25 – Christmas Day, statutory holiday

Awards

*Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Julia Carabias Lillo
*Order of the Aztec Eagle
** David Drier, U.S. Congressman (R-CA).
**Stuart Gulliver, HSBC
**Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal
*National Prize for Arts and Sciences
**Linguistics and literature – Alberto Ruy Sánchez Luy
**Physics, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences – María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces
**Technology and Design – Emilio Sacristan Rock
**Popular Arts and Traditions – Francisco Barnett Astorga
**Fine arts – Nicolás Echevarría
**History, Social Sciences, and Philosophy – Mercedes de la Garza Camino
*National Public Administration Prize
*Ohtli Award
** Sarahi Espinoza Salamanca
** Joseph I. Castro

Deaths

January

*January 1
**Edson Tadeo Cárdenas Huerta (17), soccer player (Tigres UANL) (b. 1999).
**Martha Patricia Figueroa Juárez (53), social activist, businesswoman, politician in Cordoba, Veracruz; cáncer.
**Serafín Espinal (65), músician.
*January 2
**Ernesto Franco Cobos, cultural promoter and writer in Tuxpan.
**Olegario Contreras Rubio, radio announcer in Sinaloa; heart problems.
**Analy Loera, businesswoman and cultural promoter; brain and lung cancer.
*January 3
**Cecilia González Gómez, 55, politician, Deputy (2012-2915); heart attack (b. 1961).
**Lucía Eugenia Torres Pereda, journalist.
*January 5
**Marco Francisco González Meza, public servant, accidente de tráfico.
** Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic (b. 1931).
**Cesáreo Víctor Santiago López, polítician from Oaxaca; murdered.
**Carmen Sánchez Galán (45), public servant; complicaciones post-operative complications.
*January 15
** Isidro Baldenegro López, environmental activist, murdered.
** Gorky González Quiñones, ceramist (b. 1939).
*January 16 – Romeo Gómez Aguilar (97), músician and academic (b. 1919).
*January 17 – Martín Barrón Félix (52), physicist and meteorologist; liver failure and anemia (b. 1964).
*January 18 – Raúl Muñoz Popoca (77), businessman in tourist industry.
*January 19
**David Contreras, polítician (PRI) and public servant; diabetes.
**Fernando Soto (17), músician from Jalisco; drowning.
*January 20 – Abraham Ibarra Robles, public servant from Santa María Colotepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
*January 21 – Fernando Maiz Garza (57), businessman, builder, and philanthropist; airplane crash (b. 1959).
*January 22
**Jesus Garcia, 72, boxer.
**Juan Huerta Ortega (67), businessman and rancher from Puebla; heart attack (b. 1949).
**Isidro Patrón Lara, musician.
*January 23 – Giovanni Arturo Amparan Zaragoza (30), businessman; shot.
*January 24
**Ismael Gutiérrez (79), boxer (b. 1937).
**Antolín Vital Martínez, polítician, mayor of Tepexco, Puebla; murdered.
*January 25
**Adalberto Rosas López, polítician from (Ciudad Obregón), Sonora; thrombosis.
**Agustín Sauret (85), voice actor ("Ned Flanders" in ''The Simpsons'').
**Raúl Valerio, 90, actor (Por tu amor (telenovela), Clase 406, La Verdad Oculta, Imperio de Cristal).
*January 26 – Javier García Narro, businessperson and leader of Coparmex, Coahuila.
*January 27
**Fredman Cruz Maldonado, singer; lung problems.
**Mario Palestina Moreno (45), baseball player; heart attack (b. 1971).
*January 28
**Benjamín Cabral, filmmaker.
**Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez (22), soccer player; murdered (b. November 8, 1994).
*January 29
** Omar Jair Canepa Polanco, public servant; murdered.
**Ángel García Cook (79), anthropologist and researcher (INAH) (b. 1937).
** Jorge Robles, músician and singer; cáncer.
*January 30 – Fidel Briano (72), lawyer and journalist.
*January 31
**Pedro Koh Cimé, Yucatan polítician; murdered.
**José Luis Lagunes López, public servant; cáncer.

February

*February 3 – Lorenzo Servitje, 98, businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Grupo Bimbo (b. November 20, 1918.
*February 7 – Eusebio Ruvalcaba (65), writer (''Un hilito de sange''), journalist, essayist, playwright (b. 1951).
*February 9 – Josefina Leiner, actress (b. 1929).
*February 15 – José Solé, 87, stage actor and director ''(Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes)'' (b. July 28, 1929).
*February 16 – Teresa del Conde, art historian and critic (b. 1935).
*February 21 – Neus Espresate Xirau (83), Spanish-born Mexican editor (founder of Ediciones Era); complicaciones respiratorias (n. 1934).
*February 22
**David Bárcena Ríos, equestrian and modern pentathlete (b. 1941).
** Ricardo Domínguez, 31, welterweight wrestler; colon cancer (b. 1985).
*February 27 – Eva Maria Zuk, 71, Polish-born Mexican pianist; lung problems.

March

*March 3
** Rolando Arellano Sánchez (22), músician and singer ("Grupo Contacto"), murdered.
** Miguel Guzmán Rosales (66), painter.
*March 5
** Abril Campillo (58), actress; breast cancer (b. 1958).
** Tony Flores (67), comedian; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
** Alejandro Rosales (49), television star (''El Sibidibidi''); heart attack.
** José Ignacio Rosillo Rodríguez (85), journalist.
*March 6 – Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, 81, economist and politician (PRI) (b. 1935)
*March 9
** Enrique Ortiz Rivas, mathematician, politician, and labor leader; surgical complications.
**Raquel Parot (92), actress
** Juan Gabriel Sánchez Gómez (43), leader of taxi drivers in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.
**Zorro (62), singer and politician, stroke.
*March 12
** Mario Agredano Brambila (88), radio and television announcer, reporter, and commentator in Nuevo Leon.
**Joaquín Arizpe de la Maza, businessman and philanthropist.
** Refugio Arturo García Moreno (63), education leader ("Conalep"); heart attack.
** Raúl Maldonado Mendoza, poet and orator from Oaxaca; heart attack.
*March 13 – Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; respiratory problems (b. 1927).
*March 14 – José Iván Ponce, labor leader in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.
*March 15 – Armando Garza Sada (84), engineer, businessman (Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery), and banker ( Banco de Londres y México and Banpais).
*March 18
** Juan Miguel de Mora Vaquerizo (96), member of the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, university professor, and writer (b. October 18, 1921).
**Santiago Vela, reporter for "Radio Formula" in Fortín de las Flores, Veracruuz; murdered.
*March 19 – José Reza Fernández (61), polítician in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; suicide.
*March 20
**Arturo Cruz Bárcenas (58), journalist (''La Jornada''); renal disease.
** Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga, 39, politician (PRI), Deputy (2015-2018) and public servant in Chihuahua; auto accident (b. 1977).
**Antonio Riviello Bazán (90), former Secretary of National Defense (1988) (b. Nov 21, 1926).
**Humberto Romo Medina, radio and television announcer in Nuevo Leon.
*March 21
**Víctor Bartoli (65), writer (''Mujer Alabastrina'') from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
**Marco Villafán (64), translator and adaptor of theatrical productions.
*March 23 – Miroslava Breach, 54, journalist (''La Jornada'' and ''El Norte de Chihuahua''); murdered (b. August 7, 1962).
*March 29
**Felipe Altamirano Carrillo, Indigenous priest from Nayarit; murdered.
**Dennis Palomo (21), comedian; suicide.
**Aurelio Prado Flores (68), Roman Catholic social activist and columnist (''La Voz'') (B. 1949).
**Leodegario Varela González, polítician from Zacatecas; cáncer.
*March 30 – Six murders in Oaxaca:
**Juan José Hernández Alchino, 38, teacher from Pinotepa Nacional.
**Rutilio Quirino Barragán Andrade, 75, former mayor of Santiago Tamazola (PRD).
**Amada Berenice H. V., a high school student from Santiago Jocotepec.
**Abel Rivera Roque, 31, called ''El Tortilla'', from Tuxtepec.
*March 31 – Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees) and coach, World Series champion (1980); natural causes (b. 1936).

April

*April 2 – Alma Delia Fuentes, actress (''Los Olvidados'' (1950) ''A toda máquina'' (1951), and ''Historia de un corazón'' (1951)) (b. 1937).
*April 7 – Arturo García Bustos, 90, painter (b. 1926).
*April 8 – José Ángel Nájera Sánchez ''Fisherman'', professional wrestler (b. 1951)
*April 9
**Roger Arellano Sotelo, polítician, former mayor of Acapetlahuaya, Guerrero; murdered.
**Fidencio Escamilla Cervantes (65), poet and playwright from Tonala, Jalisco; heart attack (n. 1951).
**Margarita Isabel, 75, Mexican actress ('' Cronos''), emphysema.
**Alicia Rivas Lombera, high school theater teacher; cáncer.
**José Alberto Toledo Villalobos, anti-mining activist in San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca; murdered.
*April 11 – Teresa Moran, 78, painter from Puebla (b. September 15, 1939).
*April 12
**Rafael Junquera Maldonado, writer and activist (Student movement of 1968) from Xalapa, Veracruz (b. 1941 or 1942).
**Rubén Morales Rodríguez, 79, public accountant from Veracruz (city).
*April 13 – Antonio Xiu Cachón (76), Maya Indigenous leader.
*April 14 – Max Rodríguez Palacio, journalist and reporter ("Colectivo Pericú"); murdered.
*April 19 – Demetrio Saldivar Gómez, politician (founder of Party of the Democratic Revolution in Guerrero); murdered.
*April 21 – Rogerio César Armenta Ramírez, journalist (''El 10 de Guerrero'').
*April 22 – Leobardo Flores Ávila, 102, co-founder of the Confederation of Mexican Workers in Torreón, Coahuila.
*April 24
**Evangelina Villegas, 92, biochemist.
**Juan José Flores Lira, polítician, mayor of Ignacio de la Llave, Veracruz; heart attack.
*April 28
** Brazo de Oro, wrestler; heart attack (b. 1959).
**Alejandro Hernández Santos, polítician, mayor of San Bartolomé Loxicha, Oaxaca; murdered.
*April 29 – Filiberto Álvarez Landeros, journalist and radio announcer in Jojutla, Morelos (''Poemas y cantares'' and ''La Señal''); murdered.

May

*May 1 – Santos Vega Camargo (73), actor and theater director ("El Confesionario") from Torreón (b. November 1, 1943.
*May 3 – José Herrera Aispuro (51), director of the College of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa; murdered.
*May 4 – Guadalupe González Saíno (30), polítician from Jopala, Puebla; murdered.
*May 7 – Gran Apache, 58, professional wrestler (AAA), intestinal cancer.
*May 11
**José Manuel Amarillas Monjardín, polítician from Novolato, Sinaloa; murdered.
** Andrea Romero Rojas, food propomoter (cacao) from Zacatelco, Tlaxcala (b. 1953).
*May 12
**Miguel Ángel Sánchez Morán, public servant and criminal lawyer from Mazatlán; murdered.
*May 13
** Hermenegildo Aké Sarabia, labor leader and politician from Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.
* Enrique Barrera Chávez (86), form tresurer of Coahuila.
*May 15
**Felipe Ehrenberg, 73, artist, professor and publisher (b. June 27, 1943).
** Javier Valdez Cárdenas, journalist (''Ríodoce'', ''La Jornada''), shot and killed by unidentified gunmen (b. April 14, 1967).
** Ángel Noé Mercado Carrillo (43), physician and public servant (director is ISSSTE in Tehuacan, Puebla); murdered (b. 1974).
** Jonathan Rodríguez Córdova (26), journalist and reporter (''El Costeño de Autlán'') from Autlán, Jalisco; he and his mother were murdered.
*May 16 – Mario Moreno Ivanova (57), comedian, son of Cantinflas (b. 1960).
*May 17 – Raúl Córdoba, 93, soccer player (Club Atlas, national team) (b. March 13, 1924).
*May 18
** Armando Arce Serrano (57), camera operator and video journalist (Televisa) (b. 1959).
** Oscar González Guerrero (91), comic book writer and illustrator.
** José Mercado Luna (89), soccer player ( 1948 Olympic Team) (b. August 6, 1928).
** Enrique Soto Gonzáles, chronicler, historian, and public servant from Pátzcuaro, Michoacan; heart attack.
*May 19 – David Sánchez, 25, flyweight boxer, traffic collision.
*May 20 – Miguel Vázquez Torres, Indigenous Huichol leader; murdered.
*May 22 – Santiago Salas de León, académic, writer, and rector of open university.
*May 24 – Miguel Ángel Camacho Zamudio, physician and public servant (director of ISSSTE in Mazatlan); murdered.
*May 25 – Juan Carlos Zamarripa Fernández, polítician, mayor of Pánuco, Veracruz; murdered.
*May 27 – Jaasiel Hernán Contreras Vega, photographer; murdered.
*May 31 – Fernando Sarabia Beltrán (108), académic and activist.

June

*June 2 – Armando Mendoza Duarte (48), polítician; murdered (b. 1969).
*June 3
**Juan Robinson Bours, businessman from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora; Alzheimer's disease (b. December 25, 1928)
**Antonio Sarabia (72), writer (''Tres pies al gato'') (b. June 10, 1944).
*June 5
** Eduardo Catarino Dircio, politician (Morena) from Tixtla de Guerrero municipality, Guerrero; killed by state police.
**Eleazar Vargas Lara, community leader and politician from Iguala, Guerrero; murdered.
**Ana Winocur (44), journalist; pancreatitis (b. October 1972).
*June 6 – Jorge Ortiz Murray, leader of fishermen in Mazatlan; heart attack.
*June 8
**Antonio Medellín, 75, Mexican actor (''Tres veces Ana'', '' Porque el amor manda'', ''Cuando me enamoro'').
**Elmer Arias Gutiérrez (24), músician; murdered.
**Crisóforo Otero Heredia, politician (PRD), former mayor of Tecpán de Galeana, Guerrero (2012-2015); murdered.
*June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.
*June 10 – Luis Fuentes Molinar, 89, journalist and politician (PRI), former mayor of Chihuahua (1977-1980) and federal Deputy (1973-1976).
*June 11 – Radamés Díaz Meza, Culiacán, Sinaloa, businessman; murdered.
*June 15 – Raúl Miranda Valencia, 48, lawyer and public servant from Michoacan; murdered.
*June 17 – Luis Rey Sifuentes, politician (Morena) from Chihuahua; shot.
*June 21 – Ulises Hueto Elizalde ("El Chispa") (33), boxer from Mexico City; murdered.
*June 23 – Eva Castañeda Cortés (87), social activist (''Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata'') from Morelia, Michoacan.
*June 24
**Camilo Juan Castagne Velazco, police commissioner of La Antigua, Veracruz; murdered alongside another police officer.
**Jorge Humberto Higareda Magaña (75), businessman and leader of truckers in Puebla (b. 1942).
*June 26
**Salvador Adame, journalist from Gabriel Zamora, Michoacan; murdered (found dead this date).
**Alejandro Zepeda Ortiz (27), journalist and reporter from Chiapas; suicide.
*June 27
**Pablo Martín Obregón, journalist (Televisa) from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; suicide (hanging).
**Valentín Pimstein 91, Chilean-born television producer (Televisa) who lived in Mexico (b. August 9, 1925).
*June 29
**Rodolfo Díaz ("Chivo") (78), boxer and trainer; diabetes.
**Vinicio Ferrer Merino, polítician, mayor of San Mateo Sindihui, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.
**Demetrio Jaime Martínez Benítez, politician, former mayor of San Francisco Cahuacúa, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.
**Meztli Sarabia Reyna, activist (''Unión Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes (UPVA) “28 de Octubre”'') from Puebla; murdered.
*June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.

July

*July 1
**Gregorio Delgadillo Santos (38), polítician (Morena) from Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl; murdered.
**Simón Flores Ramón, polítician and government worker from Atlacomulco, State of Mexico; electrical discharge.
*July 2
**Martín Feregrino Quiróz (27), lawyer and educator (Autonomous University of Queretaro); breathing problems.
**Rodrigo D Garay, actor.
*July 3 – José Luis Cuevas, 83, artist.
*July 4 – Walter González Arriaga, polítician; murdered.
*July 5 – Luis López Villa (71), Catholic priest from Los Reyes La Paz, State of Mexico; throat slit.
*July 6
**David Alonso López, 39, boxer, shot.
**Mariano Herrán Salvatti (68), lawyer and civil servant; liver condition.
**Héctor Villasana Rosales (78), lawyer and académic; anemia.
*July 7
**Sergio Fuentes Gutiérrez, lawyer and researcher.
**Jorge Juan Rodriguez Reyes, labor leader; automobile accident.
*July 8 – Guadalupe Baltazar Rojas, chronicler and craftswoman from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala.
*July 9 – Diego Zavala Pérez (85), lawyer, académic, and polítician, father of Margarita Zavala; heart attack.
*July 10 – Pedro Joaquín Alberto Cárdenas Segura, músician, composer, and orquestra director.
*July 13 – Héctor Lechuga, 88, comedian, actor and radio personality ('' México 2000''), heart attack.
*July 14
**René Chávez (69), baseball player.
**Carlos Torres González, UANL High School principal; murdered.
**Elías Sergio Treviño Earnshaw, former mayor of Monclova, Coahuila.
*July 17 – Martha Nava (75), Mexico's best female basketball player.
*July 18
**Irma Camacho García (67), polítician (substitute mayor of Temixco, Morelos, 2016-2017); cardiorespiratory arrest.
**Erika Mireles, voice actress ("The Simpsons" and "Doña Clotilde").
*July 19 – Hortensia de la Concepción Orozco Tejada, polítician; stroke.
*July 20 – Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna (48), criminal; shot by police.
*July 21 – Ángel Padilla, músician (harp player).
July 22
**Juan Bernardo Ruvalcaba, boxer and trainer; killed during robbery.
**José Arturo Tolosa Campos (59), Sinaloa photojournalist (''El Debate''); accidente de tránsito.
*July 23 – Erwin Trejo (47), singer ( Juan Gabriel's twin); murdered.
* July 24
**Juan Figueroa Fuentes, polítician (PRD) and public official; heart attack.
**Luis Gimeno, Uruguayan emigrant actor (''Mañana es para siempre'') (b. 1927).
*July 25
**Gerardo Gallardo (49), actor ("Chef Ornica") (b. 1967).
**David Vera Jiménez (54), public servant in Mexico City; heart attack.
*July 26
**Saúl Escudero Pozos (48), polítician and public servant; cáncer.
**Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.
*July 28 – Luis Arturo Porras Aceves (78), journalist and reporter (El Heraldo de Chihuahua) (b. 1939).
*July 31
**Lorenzo Arroyo, immigration activist; amyloidosis.
**Baltazar Maldonado Rosales (55), polítician (former mayor of Apizaco Municipality, Tlaxcala; renal insufficiency and cáncer (b. 1961).
**Luciano Rivera, journalist and reporter ("Dictamen" and TV channel CNR (176)) in Mexicali; murdered.
**José Trinidad Ventura González (42), Presbyterian Church elder in Orizaba.

August

*August 2
**José Miguel Machorro Alcalá, Catholic priest; stabbed in Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral.
**Edmundo Ortega, músician (bass player) and composer; heart attack.
*August 4 – Roberto Corvera Guzmán, rector of Universidad Angelópolis in Angelópolis, Puebla; shot.
*August 5 – Marcelino Perelló Valls (73), matemátician, académic, and former student activist (b. 1944).
*August 6
**Víctor Manuel Cárdenas Morales (65), writer and poet; stroke (b. 1952).
**Pedro Manterola Sáinz (52), psychologist, politician, and public official from Veracruz; heart attack (b. 1965).
**Virgilio Ruiz García, musician from Oaxaca; murdered.
* August 8
**Ramón Ángulo Santos (70), polítician former mayor of Angostura Municipality, Sinaloa; cardiac arrest.
**Jaime Avilés Iturbe (63), journalist (''Unomásuno'') and columnist (''La Jornada'' and '' Proceso''); lung cancer.
**Rius, 83, political cartoonist (b. June 20, 1934)
*August 11 – Eugenio Polgovsky, 40, filmmaker (winner of 4 Ariel Awards).
*August 12 – César Osuna Aguirre, baseball player (Venados de Mazatlán); murdered.
*August 15 – Rafael Ramírez Sánchez, polítician, former mayor of Sahuayo, Michoacán; kidnapped and murdered.
*August 16 – Jesús Aranda, journalist (''La Jornada'') (b. 1963).
*August 20
**Jerónimo González Huerta (71), artist (b. 1946).
**Valdemar Jiménez Solís (90), poet, académic, and cultural journalist (b. 1926).
**Aurora Meza Calles (54), Kumeyaay social activist and translator; pancreatitis.
**Martín Rocha Hernández (56), Durango physician and labor leader; lung cáncer.
*August 21
**Miguel Mike" Orpinel Mendoza, sportscaster; heart attack.
**Salomon Robbins (71), athlete and trainer.
*August 22
**Luis Muruato Puente (88), baseball player (Algodoneros de Unión Laguna).
**Cándido Ríos Vásquez, journalist from Veracruz; murdered.
*August 23
**Mauricio Delfín Domínguez, polítician from Córdoba, Veracruz; suicide.
**Ricardo Murguía (68), singer (''Yo soy tu amigo fiel''), músician, and voice actor (b. 1949).
*August 24
**Jorge Estrada Álvarez, architect and director or School of Architecture at Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
**Genaro Moreno, children's television broadcaster.
*August 26
**Edgar Gil Yoguez (55), polítician, former mayor of Venustiano Carranza, Michoacán; heart attack.
**Alicia Juárez (67), singer; heart attack (b. 1950).
**Bertha Elisa Medina Parra, polítician and public servant, former mayor of Mocorito Municipality, Sinaloa.
*August 27
**Bernardino Cruz Rivas, polítician; cardiac arrest.
**Juan Santos Vásquez, polítician, former mayor of San Esteban Amatlán, Oaxaca; run over by a car.
*August 29 – Hugo Castro Rosado, businessperson and politician, former mayor of La Antigua, Veracruz; liver failure.
*August 30
** Efrain Loza, 78, 1964 Summer Olympics soccer player.
**José Manuel García León, Tabasco músician; pulmonary emphysema.
*August 31 – Nadia Stankovitch (93), Serbian-born Mexican pianist; heart attack (b. 1924).

September

*September 2
**Gabriela del Valle, actress (''Maten a la hiena'').
**Alejo García García, académic (Instituto Universitario Londres), public servant, and chef.
**Oscar Javier González Torres ("El Espectaculo"), 62, músician, actor y comedian; cáncer of the páncreas.
**Marisela Ortega Lozano, journalist ("El Paso Times," "El Diario de El Paso," and ''Reforma''); cáncer.
*September 3 – Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, WBA/WBC featherweight champion (1963–1964), cancer (b. December 2, 1941).
*September 4 – José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuxtla (1965–1988) and San Juan de los Lagos (1988–1999), respiratory complications (b. March 30, 1921).
*September 5 – José Durán González, 67, polítician, former mayor of Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato; murdered.
*September 6 – Raúl Castañeda (34), boxer; murdered (b. 1982).
*September 11
**Carlos Galván Tello (63), agronomy engineer and public servant (National Forestry Commission of Mexico in Coahuila; cáncer.
**Carlos Muñoz Portal (37), assistant television producer ("Narcos" on Netflix); murdered.
*September 12 – Álvaro Matute Aguirre (74), historian (UNAM) (b. April 19, 1943).
*September 27 – Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress (''El Chema'') and singer (''La Academia''), liver hemorrhage during childbirth.
*September 28 – Karla Luna (38), actress (''Las Lavanderas'') and singer; cancer (b. September 25, 1979).

October

*October 2 – Evangelina Elizondo, 88, actress (''Premio Arlequín 2014''; voice of ''Cinderella'' in the Walt Disney film), natural causes (b. 1929).
*October 4 – Luis de la Hidalga y Enríquez (93), lawyer, public servant, writer ("El Violador de la Rosa", "La Venganza de Lady Wilshire"), and académic (b. December 12, 1923).
*October 5 – Édgar Esqueda, journalist (''Vox Populi''); murdered.
*October 6 – Stalin Sánchez, mayor of Paracho de Verduzco, Michoacan; murdered.
*October 10 – Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla; murdered along with his wife and a security guard.
*October 15 – Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, engineer, ambassador, politician (PRI), Senator (1982–1988), governor of San Luis Potosi (1991-1992); (b. March 10, 1928).
*October 16 – Cecilia Méndez, 60, radio announcer in Zapopan, Puebla; murdered.
*October 19
**Gaspar Jesús Azcorra Alejos (75), Yucatan priest, writer, and poet (b. 1942).
**Julio Chávez Hernández, polítician (PT) and social activist in Veracruz.
*October 20 – Crispín Gutiérrez Moreno, politician (PRI), rancher, and mayor of Ixtlahuacán, Colima; murdered.
*October 21 – Rosaura Barahona, 75, journalist ('' El Norte'') and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.

November

*November 1 – Ignacio Villanueva (86), priest from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ciudad Juárez.
*November 6 – Miguel Espinosa "Armillita" (59), bullfighter from Aguascalientes City (b. September 19, 1958).
*November 11
**Maru Dueñas (50), actress, director, and theater producer; auto accident (b. October 3, 1967).
**Claudio Reyes Rubio, 53, TV director (Televisa); auto accident; (b. August 5, 1964).
*November 13 – Miguel Hernández Urbán, painter and sculptor from Tultepec, State of Mexico
*November 19 – Claudio Báez, 69, actor and singer.
*November 20 – Silvestre de la Toba Camacho, 47, Ombudsman of the Human Rights Commission in Baja California Sur; murdered alongside his son Fernando de la Toba Lucero.
*November 25
** Jesús Gómez, 76, equestrian, Olympic bronze medalist (1980).
**Rosario Green, 76, economist, diplomat and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998–2000) and Senator (2006–2012).
**Rosendo Huesca Pacheco, 85, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Puebla de los Ángeles (1977–2009).
*November 26
** Vicente García Bernal, 88, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Obregón (1988–2005).
** Óscar Lara Aréchiga, 65, politician.
*November 28 – Rafael Llano Cifuentes, 84, Mexican-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nova Friburgo (2004–2010).
*November 29
**Evelia Lopez Vassallo (82), social activist (''Frente Cívico'') from Tonalá, Chiapas; long-time illness.
**María Angélica Luna Parra, polítician, public servant ("Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Social"), and social activist.

December

*December 5 – Iliana Godoy Patiño (65), narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (b. January 22, 1952).
*December 8 – Juan Celada Salmón, 101, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (''Proceso HYL'') (b. February 14, 1916).
*December 11 – Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1988–1991) (b. April 10, 1947).
*December 14 – Javier Villalobos Jaramillo (76), architect, restaurer and académic (b. April 30, 1941).
*December 15 – Rubén Pato Soria, 75, professional wrestler.
*December 18
**Emilio Alvarado Badillo (56), photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (b. 1951).
**Ricardo Miledi (90), neuro-scientist (''Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Medicina de México'') (b. September 15, 1927).
**Ricardo Suriano (67), journalist (''Charamupa'') from Tonalá, Chiapas.
*December 19
**Gumaro Pérez Aguilando (34), journalist and reporter (''La Voz del Sur'') in Acayucan, Veracruz; murdered.
**Fernando Villares Moreno ("Zorro"), 62, singer ("Fugitivo"); stroke.
*December 20 – Jesús Castillo Rangel (121), Revolutionary and farmer, Mexico's oldest man; respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia.(b. October 24, 1896).
*December 24
**Alejandro León Cázarez, baseball journalist and columnist (''La Aficion'').
**Salvador Magaña Martínez, social leader and activist in La Huerta, Jalisco, polítician ( Citizens' Movement); murdered.
** Sergio Magaña Martínez, 68, polítician (PRI), Senator (1994–2000), businessman, former mayor of Morelia, Michoacan (1993); heart attack (b. December 2, 1949).
**José Miguel Rodríguez Asaf (54), businessman (Grupo de Apoyo al Desarrollo de IZAMAL y sus Comisarias), polítician, former mayor of Izamal Municipality.
**Juan Silveti Reynoso (88), bullfighter; lung disease (b. October 5, 1929).
*December 25
**Rudy Casanova (50), Cuban-born Mexican actor (''Amores con trampa'' and ''Hasta el fin del mundo''); breathing problems (b. November 3, 1967).
**Alfredo Guzman Guzman, former mayor of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato (1977-1979).
**José Luis Sánchez Camacho (85), músician.
*December 28
**David Antón (93), scenographer and costume designer (b. 1924).
**Saúl Galindo Plazola, polítician (PRD), former mayor of Tomatlán (2013-2015), Jalisco; murdered.
**Arturo Gómez Pérez, polítician mayor of Petatlán, Guerrero; murdered.
**Luis Abraham González Contreras (31), photographer y reporter; murdered.
**Gerardo Olavarrieta León, hotel owner ("Suites Kokai", "Plaza Kokai", and "Condominios Kokai") in Cancun, Quintana Roo.
**Mario Stern (81), composer and académic (b. 1936).
*December 31
**Regino Díaz Redondo, journalist (''Excélsior'').
**Juan González Gómez ("Juan Cotz"), 63, painter from San Juan Chamula, Chiapas (b. June 24, 1954).

See also

*Timeline of Mexican history

Notes

References

{{Portalbar, Mexico

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