2014 in Mexico

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto
• 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

February

• February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years.

  March

• March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.

  April

• April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
• April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero.

  May

• May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.

  June

July

August

• 27 August–September: CENAPRED reported explosions of Popocateptl, accompanied by steam-and-gas emissions with minor ash and ash plumes that rose 800-3,000 m above the volcano's crater, which drifted west, southwest, and west-southwest. On most nights incandescence was observed, increasing during times with larger emissions.
• 29 and 31 August 2014: The Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center reported discrete ash emissions from Popocateptl.

  September

• September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
• September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
• September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
• September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers.

  October

• October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa.
• October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.

  November

• November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
• November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
• November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
• November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
• November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
• November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
• November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.

  Deaths

• January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco
• July 14 – Antonio Riva Palacio, politician, Governor of Morelos, Ambassador to Ecuador
• November 28 – Roberto Gomez Boaños
• December 15 — Fausto Zapata, lawyer, politician, diplomat, who was Governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991