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Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

  • President: Vicente Fox PAN
  • Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel
  • Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman
  • Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola
  • Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez
  • Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega
  • Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González
  • Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Carlos María Abascal Carranza
  • Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota
  • Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Leticia Navarro
  • Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger
  • Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk
  • Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha

Supreme Court

  • President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel

Governors

  • Aguascalientes: Felipe González González PAN
  • Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
  • Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño, PRD
  • Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
  • Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD
  • Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García PRI
  • Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI
  • Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña PRI
  • Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier PRI
  • Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN
  • Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros PRI
  • Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI
  • Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN
  • State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel PRI
  • Michoacán
    • Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí PRI (date not available)
    • Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD (date not available)
  • Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN.[1]
  • Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
  • Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
  • Oaxaca: José Murat Casab PRI
  • Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI
  • Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN
  • Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI
  • San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto
  • Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI
  • Sonora: Armando López Nogales PRI
  • Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1
  • Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington PRI
  • Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
  • Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI
  • Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
  • Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal PRD
  • Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD

Events

  • January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
  • February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
  • March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
  • September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
  • October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta
  • October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
  • November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.

Awards

  • Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio[2]
  • Order of the Aztec Eagle
  • National Prize for Arts and Sciences
  • National Public Administration Prize
  • Ohtli Award
    • Rosa Ramirez Guerrero
    • Richard Joel Noriega
  • March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
  • May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
  • June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
  • July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.

Sports

  • Primera División de México Verano 2002
  • Primera División de México Apertura 2002

Music

Film

Documentaries

  • Gabriel Orozco
  • Niños de la calle
  • Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados
  • Acosada (De piel de víbora)

Fiction

  • Amar te duele
  • Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino
  • Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras)
  • El crimen del padre Amaro
  • eXXXorcismos
  • Francisca (... De qué lado estás?)
  • El gavilán de la sierra
  • La habitación azul
  • Seres humanos
  • El tigre de Santa Julia
  • Una de dos
  • La virgen de la lujuria

Literature

TV

Births

  • February 5 – Paulina Villarreal, drummer

Deaths

  • January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
  • February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
  • April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914)[3]
  • October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)[4]
  • October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer
  • November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician
  • November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
  • December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).[5][6]

References

  1. ^ Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  2. ^ Zárate Vite, Arturo (7 Oct 2002). "Dará Senado presea a Héctor Fix Zamudio". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  3. ^ Mejia, Carolina. "Maria Feliz: 10 datos intimos de la diva del cine mexicano" [Maria Feliz: 10 intimate facts about the diva of Mexican Cinema] (in Spanish). El Universal de10.mx.
  4. ^ Pilar Mandujano Jacobo (September 25, 2018), "Emilio García Riera", Enciclopedia de la literatura en México (in Spanish), retrieved August 23, 2019
  5. ^ "Biografia de Iván Illich". Biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Ivan Illich". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
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