2011 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Felipe Calderón
• Interior Secretary :
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
• Communications Secretary :
• Education Secretary :
• Secretary of Defense :
• Secretary of Navy:
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
• Secretary of Welfare:
• Secretary of Public Education:
• Tourism Secretary :
• Secretary of the Environment :
• Secretary of Health :

  Governors

• Aguascalientes:
• Baja California:
• Baja California Sur:
• Campeche:
• Chiapas:
• Chihuahua:
• Coahuila:
• Colima:
• Durango:
• Guanajuato:
• Guerrero:
• Hidalgo:
• Jalisco:
• State of Mexico:
• Michoacán:
• Morelos:
• Nayarit:
• Nuevo León:
• Oaxaca:
• Puebla:
• Querétaro:
• Quintana Roo:
• San Luis Potosí:
• Sinaloa:
• Sonora:
• Tabasco:
• Tamaulipas:
• Tlaxcala:
• Veracruz:
• Yucatán:
• Zacatecas:

  Events

January–March

• January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
• January 14 – Mexican Drug War: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.
• January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
• January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.

• February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
• February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.
• February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
• February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
• February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

• March 1 – Seventeen bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.

  April–June

• April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.

• May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.

• June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.

  July–September

• July 3
• * State elections in the State of Mexico.
• * State elections in Nayarit.
• * Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.

• August 8 – Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.
• August 25 – 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
• August 30 – The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.

October–December

• November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.

Notable deaths

• January 7 – Saúl Vara Rivera, Mexican politician, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila, shot.
• January 10 – Abraham Ortíz Rosales, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temoac, shot.
• January 11 – Susana Chávez, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled.
• January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, Mexican politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec, shot.
• October 8 — José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, lawyer and politician ; Governor of Coahuila 1981–1987
• December 24 – José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral, heart attack.
• December 26 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor, cancer and died in New York City, United States.