2016 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

• Gunmen shot and killed Temixco mayor Gisela Mota Ocampo at her home on 2 January, the day after she was elected. Police shot and killed several suspects and arrested several more who are suspected of involvement in organized crime.
• Mexican police arrested Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán on 8 January. He had been on the run since his second escape from prison in July 2015.

  February

• February 29 – March 6 – 2016 Monterrey Open

  March

• 28 March 2016: An ash column 2,000 metres high was released from Popocateptl, prompting the establishment of a 12-kilometer "security ring" around the summit.

  April

• 3 April 2016 — Popocatépetl erupted, spewing lava, ash and rock.
• 9-15 April – 2016 IIHF World Championship Division II Group B in Mexico City
• 16 April — Javier Duarte de Ochoa, former Governor of Veracruz 2010-2016 is arrested and charged with corruption.
• 20 April — At least 24 people were killed, 136 others injured, following a blast at the major Clorados 3 petrochemical plant of Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo. The plant is run by Mexichem under agreement with Petroleos Mexicanos, the national petrochemical company, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on the country's southern Gulf of Mexico coast. Pemex had an earlier fire at the same facility in February 2016 that killed one worker; also that month, an offshore Pemex Gulf platform fire killed two and injured eight.

  August

• August 2016: Eruptions continued from Popocateptl, with four discrete blasts on August 17.

  November

• November 10: Guillermo Padrés Elías, former Governor of Sonora 2009-2015 is arrested for allegedly laundering US$ 8.9 million.

  Deaths

• January 2: Gisela Mota Ocampo, Presidente Municipal of Temixco, Morelos
• January 7
• *Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe. Politician and union leader.
• *Jesús María Ramón Valdés, politician.
• January 17: Juan Manuel Ley, businessman.
• January 23: Espectrito, professional wrestler.
• February 1: Miguel Gutiérrez, soccer player.
• February 12: Braulio Manuel Fernández, 74, politician.
• February 13: Rafael Moreno Valle, soldier, physician, and politician, Governor of Puebla, Secretary of Health.
• February 15 – Carlos Quintero Arce, 96, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo.
• February 17 – Jesús Barrero, 57, actor and voice actor.
• February 20 – Moisés Dagdug Lützow, 65, radio-station owner, politician, Deputy from Villahermosa, Tabasco stabbed.
• February 21 – María Luisa Alcalá, 72, actress.
• March 14 – Mónica Arriola Gordillo, 44, Mexican politician, cancer.
• March 17 – Eliezer Ronen, 84, Mexican-born Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• March 23 – Fernando Solana, 85, Mexican diplomat and politician, member of the Senate for Mexico City, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, negotiated NAFTA.
• March 26
• *Raúl Cárdenas, 86, soccer player and coach.
• *Francisco García Moreno, a member of the 1968, 1972, and 1976 Olympic water polo teams was shot near his home in Cuernavaca during a robbery.
• April 3 – Leopoldo Flores, 82, artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
• April 9 – Lucas Martínez Lara, 70, prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Matehuala.
• April 16 – Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician, Deputy from the State of Mexico; heart attack.
• April 18 – Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, engineer, architect, teacher, historian, painter, artist, and Catholic priest, best known for being the creator of "The Boat of the Faith".
• April 24 – Ricardo Torres Origel, 59, Mexican politician Deputy and Senator from Guanajuato.
• April 26 – Álvaro Pérez Treviño, 85, Mexican politician .
• May 8 – Tonita Castro, 63, Mexican-born American actress, stomach cancer;.
• May 18 – Luis H. Álvarez, 96, President of National Action Party, Municipal president of Chihuahua .
• May 22
• *José Luis Romo Martín, 62, Otomi -Hñäñhü- artist.
• *Leonorilda Ochoa, 76, actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• June 17 – Rubén Aguirre, 82, actor, pneumonia.
• June 20 – Chayito Valdez, 71, Mexican-born American folk singer and actress, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• July 2 – Flavio Romero de Velasco, 90, lawyer and politician, Governor of Jalisco .
• July 3 – Mauricio Walerstein, 71, film director.
• July 6 – Armando León Bejarano, surgeon and Governor of Morelos, 1976-1982
• July 7 – Cinna Lomnitz, 90, German-born Chilean-Mexican geophysicist.
• July 17 – Rafael Aguilar Talamantes. Founding politician of the Cardenista Front of National Reconstruction and Federal Elections of Mexico 1994 presidential candidate in 1994.
• July 18 – Aldo Monti, 87, actor .
• August 6 – José Becerra, 80, bantamweight boxer, world champion .
• August 13 – Miguel Bortolini, 74, politician, President of the Coyoacán ; cancer.
• August 20 – Ignacio Padilla, 47, writer, co-founder of the Crack Movement; traffic collision.
• August 23 – Evita Muñoz, 79, Mexican actress ; pneumonia.
• August 28 – Juan Gabriel, 56, Singer and composer originally from Michoacán,.
• September 16 – Teodoro González de León, 90, Mexican architect.
• October 4 – Mario Almada, 94, Mexican actor.
• October 7 – Martha Roth, 84, Italian-born Mexican actress.
• October 9
• *René Avilés Fabila, 75, author, heart attack.
• *El Mongol, 86, professional wrestler.
• October 10 – Gonzalo Vega, 69, actor .
• October 24 – Herón Escobar, 62, politician from Sinaloa, member of Congress.
• October 30 – René Velázquez Valenzuela, suspected hitman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, shot.
• November 5
• *Israel Cavazos Garza, 93, historian.
• *Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 84, sociologist.
• November 12 – Lupita Tovar, 106, Mexican-American actress, heart disease.
• November 17 – Fidel Negrete, 84, Olympic long-distance runner, Pan American gold medalist.
• November 23 – Renato López, 33, actor and television host, shot.

  Public holidays

Film

• List of Mexican films of 2016