2018 in Mexico

Incumbents

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
• Governors

  Events

• January 23 — Marco Antonio Sanchez Flores, a student at Prepa 8 in Mexico City, is detained by the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica and the Policia Auxiliar. Several hours later, he was released in Melchor Ocampo, State of Mexico. Months later, the detention is unexplained.
• February 16 — A helicopter of the SEDENA crashes, leaving 14 dead. The helicopter, which was carrying the Secretary of the Interior, Alfonso Navarrete Prida and the Governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat, crashed in Santiago Jamiltepec, Oaxaca, as it was inspecting the damage caused by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 that had taken place at 5:39 p.m.
• February 18 – Five minors are killed and three are injured when their car crashes on Eje 10 Sur in Mexico City. They had visited a fair in Santa Catarina Yecahuízotl, Tláhuac.
• March 19: Three film students from the Universidad de Medios Audiovisuales, Javier Salomón Aceves Gastélum, Daniel Díaz y Marcos Ávalos, disappeared in Tonalá, Jalisco. Later it was discovered that the students were beaten and killed, and their bodies were dissolved in acid.
• March 20 – A man walks into a store in "Reforma 222" shopping mall in Mexico City, shoots his ex-wife, and causes panic among the shoppers.
• April 5 — U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to militarize its southern border.
• April 11 – After two weeks, a capuchin monkey is captured and taken to Chapultepec Zoo.
• May 8 – A crack in the high-speed lane of Viaducto Miguel Alemán in Iztacalco, Mexico City, frightens motorists. It requires 1,100 m³ of concrete to be repaired.
• May 18 — An airplane crash in Cuba results in the deaths of 112 people, including the seven members of the crew, all Mexicans.
• June
• *Floods cause multiple problems throughout the country, particularly in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Guanajuato.
• *Two dismembered bodies, presumably belonging to drug traffickers, are found on Avenida Insurgentes Norte y Flores Magón in Nonoalco Tlatelolco, Mexico City.
• July 1 — Andrés Manuel López Obrador wins the presidency.
• July 12 – A shopping center in Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City partially collapses. No one is hurt, and it reopens 40 days later.
• August 8 – Roberto Moyado Esparza, a.k.a. ‘El Betito’, presumed leader of La Unión de Tepito drug gang, is arrested.
• August 17 — The government issues a new MXN $500 bill, featuring Benito Juarez.
• September 4 — A group of pseudo-students known as porros attack a peaceful march by students from the Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades Azcapotzalco, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who were demanding greater security measures on campus. Several students are injured.
• 11 October - The collapse of a shopping mall under construction in the Mexican city of Monterrey results in at least 7 deaths and nine people missing. 15 others are injured.
• October 19 – 'El Calavera' is arrested for sexually abusing 39 children in the "Marcelino de Champagnat" preschool in Mexico City.
• October 31 — Repairs to the water system in Mexico City and the State of Mexico leave millions without water for a week.
• December 1 — President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is inaugurated.
• November 5 — The trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Loera Guzman begins in New York, accused of drug trafficking.
• December 15 — At 18:57 local time, Popocatepetl spews lava, ash and rock.
• December 24 — The governor Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso and her husband, Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, a senator and former state governor, died in a helicopter crash.
• December 28 – Seven minor children burn to death in a fire in their home in Buenavista, Iztapalapa, Mexico City.

  Predicted and scheduled events

• July: 2018 Mexican general election

  Deaths

January

• January 1
• * Santiago Elias Castro Escobedo, former mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila; heart attack.
• * Carlos Tirado Montero, 70, businessperson and politician.
• January 5
• *Glafiro Alanís Flores, 73, biologist and educator ; illness.
• *Isauro Medina Hinojos, 95, businessperson and former mayor of Parral, Chihuahua.
• January 6
• *Rubén Amaro Rodarte, 81, businessperson.
• *Jose Gerardo Martinea, 35, journalist.
• *Salvador Reyes Montellano, journalist.
• January 7: Roberto López y Garza, 82, journalist and publicicist; heart attack.
• January 8
• *Salvador Borrego, 102, pro-Nazi journalist and writer.
• *Francisco McManus Soto, educator and environmentalist.
• Joel Alanís, rock músician; sclerosis.
• January 10: Eugenio Ramírez, polítician from Guerrero; heart attack.
• January 12: Hugo Betancourt Morales, dancer and art director.
• January 13: Carlos Domínguez, independent journalist ; murdered.
• January 16: Rogelio Benavides Chapa, 77, former mayor of Guadalupe, Nuevo León; complications from surgery.
• January 17: Rafael Villegas Attolini, 72, businessperson and former mayor of Gómez Palacio Municipality.
• January 19: Andrés Marcelo Sada Zambrano, engineer and businessperson.
• January 21: Rafael Anaya González, rector of Universidad Don Vasco.
• January 22: Rogelio Padilla, 62, sociologist, activist for children's rights, founder of MAMA, A.C.
• January 24: Ramón "Diablo" Montoya Lerma, baseball center-fielder and member of Hall of Fame.
• January 25: Sahori, Mexican wrestler; cáncer.
• January 26
• *Ramiro Cota, 91, former mayor of Chihuahua Municipality, Chihuahua.
• *Francisco Savín, 88, composer and director Xalapa Symphony Orchestra ;.
• January 27
• *Graciela Bernardo, actress.
• *Manuel Cevallos Urueta, 73, notary public and former mayor of Querétaro City, Querétaro.
• January 28: Salvador Aguilar García, mayor of Cohetzala, Puebla; auto accident.

  February

• February 1
• *Gonzalo Aguilar Zinser, lawyer and social activist; heart attack.
• *Rumaldo Velázquez Quiñónez, politician and Yaqui Indigenous leader; diabetes.
• February 2: María Alicia Martínez Medrano, cultural promoter.
• February 3
• *Félix Hernández López, journalist; automobile accident.
• *Luis Santiago Catarina, academic, politician, social activist; heart attack.
• *Felipe Valdez Licea, politician and farm leader in Amealco de Bonfil, Queretaro.
• February 5: Francisco Rojas San Román, polítician, federal Deputy ; murdered.
• February 9
• *Javier Manuel Hernandez Ramirez, laborer, movie actor.
• *Agustín Sánchez Altamirano, writer and novillero .
• February 10
• *Eduardo Arce Becerra, coach and sports promoter; heart attack.
• *Nohemi Hermosillo, model and businessperson; auto accident.
• February 11: Pablo Garza Lugo, politician and businessperson; auto accident.
• February 12: Evaristo Gómez Hernández, polítician and union leader ; heart attack.
• February 13
• *Dante Bucio, photojournalist and academic.
• *Carmela Rey, actress and singer; heart attack.
• February 16:
• *Jorge Hernández Andrés, businessperson and rejoneador ; suicide.
• *Guillermo Zambrano Lozano, businessperson ; lung infection.
• February 17: "Don Sshinda", 83, wooden toy handicrafter.
• February 18: Tadeusz Kępka, Polish track coach, nationalized Mexican; home accident.
• February 19
• *Rafael Castro Torres, businessperson.
• *Leopoldo Corona, lawyer and boxer.
• February 20: Soledad Ricarte Bravo, journalist.
• February 21: José Luis Ibarra, baseball player ; diabetes.
• February 23: Magdalena Pueblito Espinosa Rodríguez, polítician from Queretaro; cáncer.
• February 24
• *Claudia Reyes, teacher.
• *Carlos Armando Torres Lagarda, lawyer and academic.
• February 25
• *Manuel Granados Enríquez, businessperson and former mayor of Valle de Santiago, Queretaro.
• *Teresita Saad, actress.
• February 27: Tomás Morales, journalist and baseball sportscaster.
• February 28
• *Rogelio Guerra, 81, actor.
• *Jorge Rubén Nordhausen González, polítician ; stroke.

  March

• March 1
• *Enrique Cárdenas González, 91, Mexican politician, Governor of Tamaulipas, Municipal President of Ciudad Victoria, and Senator.
• *Maria Rubio, 83, actress.
• March 2: Adela Calva Reyes, Otomi writer .
• March 3: Aarón Vargas Contreras, political scientist and chronicler of Papantla, Veracruz.
• March 4
• *Cuauhtémoc García Pineda, photographer and journalist who filmed the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968.
• *Ricardo Ponce Espejo, Yucatan businessperson.
• March 5
• * Catalina Eibenschutz Hartman, physician, researcher, and académic; cofouner of the Medicina Social y la Salud Colectiva en México y América Latina.
• *Marcela Lombardo Otero, politician, Deputy, presidential candidate.
• March 6
• *Octavio Novaro, 78, Mexican physicist specialized in theoretical catalysis, awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences and UNESCO Science Prize.
• *Benito Rosel Isaac, Yucatan politician .78
• March 7: Ricardo Espinosa Cárdenas, writer, actor, theater director, television presenter
• March 8
• *Samuel 'Tuxpan' González, soccer player for Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz; heart attack.
• *Arcelia Larrañaga, actress.
• *Rafael 'Cobra' Mendoza, boxing promototer and representative .
• March 11
• *Gabriel Berumen Castillo, photographer.
• *Misael Meneses Carmona, 3rd division soccer player in Puebla; drowning.
• March 12: Daniela Magdaleno, bullfighting photographer; brain aneurism.
• March 14: Carlos Aurelio González Villarreal, physician and composer .
• March 16
• *Ezequiel Orozco, 29, Mexican soccer player, lung cancer.
• *Sergio Chávez Saldaña, Chihuahua surgeon and teacher.
• March 18: Sergio García, Monterrey theater director; pneumonia and brain surgery complications.
• March 19: Adriana Cortés Mercado, journalist and communicator ; cáncer.
• March 21: Saúl Montoya Beltrán, baseball player; heart attack.
• March 22:
• *Jaime Puga, actor and singer.
• *Adela Peralta Leppe, actress, first female clown in Mexico.
• *América Rodríguez Camacho, Mezquitic, Jalisco polítician ; stroke.
• *Maximino Alberto Wood Hernández, Coatzacoalcos lawyer and politician.
• March 25: Jacinto Adriano Wong Romero, Progreso, Yucatán priest.
• March 27: Eva Izaguirre Camacho, first female mayor of Poza Rica, Veracruz ; cáncer.
• March 28
• *Ernesto Salinas Flores, businessperson from Piedras Negras, Coahuila; lymphoma.
• *Elena Subirats, tennis player, medalist in 1963 and 1967 Pan American Games; natural causes.
• March 29: Alan Durbecq Anton, cellist; autombolile accident.

  April

• April 3: Tomas Villa, 34, featherweight boxer, traffic collision.
• April 5: Erberto Shinagawa Montoya, journalist, chronicler, and historian.
• April 6: Urbano Zea, 49, Mexican swimmer, heart attack.
• April 8: Rito Valdés Salinas, former mayor of Piedras Negras ; long-time illness.
• April 9
• *Claudia Chablé Ek, journalist; cáncer.
• *Felipe Tejeda García, 83, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of México .
• April 10
• *Alejandro Hernández, journalist ; heart attack.
• *Emilia Martell, actress and singer; suicide.
• April 11:
• *Rafael Villegas Attolini, businessperson and politician.
• *Alfonso Zaragoza Moreno, Culiacán businessperson.
• April 12: Sergio Pitol, 85, writer, translator, and diplomat; complications of progressive aphasia.
• April 13
• *Manuel Hernández Salomón, chronicler and writer.
• *Joy Laville, Mexican painter and sculptor born in the U.K.; stroke.
• April 14: Armando Salgado, photojournalist who filmed the killing of 120 students in the Corpus Christi massacre in 1971.
• April 16: Sendy Arlet Guerrero Montejo, journalist; bone cancer.
• April 17: Martha Meza, journalist ; cáncer.
• April 18: Rubén Díaz Alcántara, priest, murdered.
• April 19: Graciela Agudelo, 72, Mexican pianist and composer.
• April 21
• *Jesús Ramírez Elisea, businessperson.
• *Ignacio Solorio Arroyo, lawyer ; heart attack.
• April 22: María Loreto Elba Rojas Bruschetta, lawyer and judge in Puebla; illness related to tobacco.
• April 25: Gregorio Casal, 82, actor ; dehydration.
• April 26: Armando Contreras González, journalist, reporter, television host ; cáncer.
• April 27
• *Guillermo Aldrett, businessperson ; automobile accident.
• *Juan Carlos Olivas, 34, actor ; cáncer.
• April 28: As Charro, professional wrestler.

  May

• May 1: Wrestler Universo 2000, 55, heart attack in León, Guanajuato.
• May 3
• * Feliciano Guirado Méndez, journalist.
• * Federico Terrazas Torres, businessperson.
• May 7: Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, pediatritian, polítician, and Secretary of Health .
• May 8
• * Ana Marisa Lugo Miranda, publicity person.
• * Felipe Muñoz Barba, polítician; diabetes.
• May 10: Mexican actor Fela Fabregas died at 87 due to a cardio-pulmonary illness.
• May 14: María Elena Meneses Rocha, 56, Mexican journalist, technologist and academic.
• May 11
• * José Remedios Aguirre Sánchez, polítician ; murdered.
• * Nicanor Moreira Ruiz, businessperson and politician.
• May 14: José Manuel García Arreola, social activist; cáncer.
• May 15 José Lavat, 69, Mexican voice actor, renal failure.
• May 16: Alejandro Caballero Vértiz, lawyer and judge.
• May 17: Hernán de Mata Quinta, Oaxaca politician ; murdered.
• May 19: Carlos Ximénez Estrada, cultural journalist and writer.
• May 20: Jacinto Contreras Martínez, polítician.
• May 23: Adrián Páez Martínez, businessperson.
• May 29
• *Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez, 96, first archbisop of San Luis Potosí.
• *René Yañez, 75, Mexican-born American artist, founder of Galería de la Raza, cancer.

  June

• June 3: Héctor Miranda, voice actor.
• June 5: Mauricio Caro, actor.
• June 7: Fernando Purón Johnston, polítician; murdered.
• June 11: Martín Luna, television producer.
• June 13: Arkangel de la Muerte, 52, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
• June 25: Jaime Bermúdez Cuarón, polítician and businessperson.
• June 29: María Luisa Mendoza, 88, Mexican journalist, novelist and politician.

  July

• July 5: Trinidad Martínez Tarragó, Spanish-born economist, writer, and académic.
• July 6: Antonio Toledo Corro, Governor of Sinaloa 1981–1986
• July 8: Piratita Morgan, 49, professional wrestler.
• July 11: Television producer Santiago Galindo was murdered in his car in Alvaro Obregon, Mexico City. Another report is that he committed suicide.
• July 19: Wrestler Maximino "Max" Linares Moreno, a.k.a. Rayo de Jalisco died of natural causes at the age of 85 in Mexico City.
• July 24: Rubén Pat, Quintana Roo journalist and reporter; murdered.
• July 26: Alfredo del Águila, soccer player.
• July 30: Claudia Heinze, model; heart failure.
• July 31: Rafael Amador, 58, soccer player and coach.

  August

• August 2: Gabriel Covarrubias Ibarra, 88, politician, Senator, Mayor of Guadalajara.
• August 13: Rico Pontvianne, 74, basketball player, Pan American championship silver medalist.
• August 15: Musician Fabio Melanitto was murdered while riding his motorcycle in Colonia Navarette, Mexico City. He was 32.
• August 18: Gabriel López Zapiain, 75, soccer player.
• August 21: Villano III, 66, professional wrestler, cerebral infarction.
• August 26: Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, 66, Mexican jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union, heart attack.
• August 31: José Luis Dibildox Martínez, 75, bishop of the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Tarahumara and Tampico ; long-time illness

  September

• September 5
• *Roger Aguilar Salazar 79, Mexican politician, deputy-elect for Moreno from Yucatan, died of leukemia
• *José Antonio Fernández Salazar, journalist Televisa; cáncer.
• September 6: Ernesto Juárez Frías, músician and composer.
• September 9: Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, 79, Mexican politician, Minister of Agriculture and Deputy ; cancer.
• September 27: Virginia Ramos, 65, Mexican-born American chef.

  October

• October 4: José Sacal writer.
• October 5: Yolanda Martínez actress
• October 12: Marbella Ibarra, soccer coach and promoter of women's soccer ; murdered.
• October 17: Elizabeth Nava Hernández 55, politician Morena; cancer
• October 19: Martha Beatriz Isela Fregoso Zepeda, journalist and executive.
• October 26: César Zambrano Pérez, polítician and businessperson; murdered.
• October 31: Arnulfo "Fito" Avilán Cruz 94, soccer player.

  November

• November 1: Manuel Villamor Reyes 90, Mexican-Belizian painter and muralist
• November 4:
• * Melquiades Sánchez Orozco, journalist and radio announcer.
• * Sofía Tejeda Becerra, actress.
• November 6: José Lothario, 83, Mexican professional wrestler and manager.
• November 7: José Fortunato Álvarez Valdez 50, Catholic bishop of Gomez Palacio, Durango died after a long illness.
• November 11
• *Pedro Aranda-Díaz Muñoz, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tulancingo.
• *Olga Harmony, 90, Mexican playwright.
• November 14:
• *Chilean singer of boleros Lucho Gatica, a long-time resident of Mexico, died at the age of 90.
• *Mexican writer Fernando del Paso died at the age of 85 in his home in Mexico City.
• November 18: Héctor Beltrán Leyva 53, Mexican drug lord, died of a heart attack
• November 19: Isidro Olace, actor.
• November 20: Lorena Villegas, voice actress.
• November 21: Luis Trujillo Llame, Catholic priest; accident
• November 26: Patricia Quintana, 72, Mexican chef, writer and academic; natural causes.
• November 27: Benjamín Gallegos Soto 58, Mexican pilot and politician, member of PAN, Senator from Aguascalientes

  December

• December 5: Carlos “Bobby” Treviño, 70, baseball player ; sudden death.
• December 14: Salvador Flores Huerta, 84, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas.
• December 16: Juan L. Maldonado, 70, Mexican-born American education administrator, President of Laredo Community College.
• December 18: Angels Bravo Spanish-Mexican doubling actress
• December 19: Raúl Mata, 71, Mexican professional wrestler.
• December 22: Angélica García Arrieta, Mexican accountant and politician, founder of Morena
• December 24: The governor of Puebla, Martha Erika Alonso and her husband, senator and former governor Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas died in a helicopter crash.
• December 27
• *Actress and producer Lourdes Deschamps died.
• *Martha Elena Venier, professor and researcher.
• December 29: Rosenda Monteros, actress, director, and producer.

  Date unknown

• Agustín Bernal, actor.
• Teresa Saad, actress.