2015 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

• January 7: CENAPRED reported that ash from recent explosions coats the snow on the Popocateptl volcano's upper slopes.
• January 29: An explosion occurred in a maternal hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, leaving 7 dead and 60 injured.

  February

• February 13: A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30.
• February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.

  March

• March 3:

April

• April 4: Lunar Eclipse
• April 8: Mexico issues a 100-year bond for 1.5 billion euros or its equivalent to approximately 620 million dollars.

  May

• May 22: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias dies general director of ISSSTE
• May 27: The SCT opens audits on contracts awarded to OHL
• May 27: Nestora Salgado will be transferred to another prison, that of Tepepan.
• May 28: Murder of coordinator of Panista candidate in the delegation Azcapotzalco.
• May 28: The INE agrees to pay $10,000 to Rigoberta Menchú.
• May 31: Santos champion by defeating the team of Querétaro.

  June

• June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.

  Deaths

• January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress, heart attack.
• January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
• January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist.
• January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor and singer, complications from a stroke.
• January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato, Governor of Guanajuato.
• February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
• February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman
• February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
• February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer.
• February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision.
• March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack.
• March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
• March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler, stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
• March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla, lung cancer.
• April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP, cancer.
• April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona, Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina.
• April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, 20, suspected assassin, shot.
• April 23
• *Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist.
• *Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa, MP for Veracruz.
• April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
• May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer, stomach cancer.
• May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
• June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician.
• June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player, pneumonia.
• June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion, stabbed.
• June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer.
• July 2: Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Recognized communicator who directed for more than 20 years the main news on national network; stroke.
• July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer.
• July 21: Gelsen Gas, 82, artist and filmmaker.
• July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
• August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist.
• August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
• August 23
• *Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy.
• *Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation.
• September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader, heart attack.
• September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician.
• September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director.
• September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece.
• October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist.
• October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
• October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager.
• October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate, plane crash.
• November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
• November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes.
• November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
• December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero
• December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla.
• December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
• December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion.