Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.
Incumbents Federal government President: Vicente Fox PAN
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Santiago Creel Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Jorge Castañeda Gutman Communications Secretary (SCT): Pedro Cerisola Education Secretary (SEP): Reyes Tamez Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Gerardo Clemente Vega Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Marco Antonio Peyrot González Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): José Carlos María Abascal Carranza Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Josefina Vázquez Mota Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Leticia Navarro Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Víctor Lichtinger Secretary of Health (SALUD): Julio Frenk Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Rafael Macedo de la Concha
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Genaro David Góngora Pimentel
Governors
Aguascalientes: Felipe González González PAN Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN Baja California Sur: Leonel Cota Montaño, PRD Campeche: José Antonio González Curi Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García PRI Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez PRI Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña PRI Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier PRI Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros PRI Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto PRI Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas PAN State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel PRI Michoacán Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí PRI (date not available) Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD (date not available) Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN. Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN Oaxaca: José Murat Casab PRI Puebla: Melquíades Morales PRI Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera PAN Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz PRI San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI Sonora: Armando López Nogales PRI Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, starting January 1 Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington PRI Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco PRI Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal PRD Head of Government of the Federal District: Andrés Manuel López Obrador PRD
Events January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place. March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon. September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.
Awards
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio Order of the Aztec Eagle National Prize for Arts and Sciences National Public Administration Prize Ohtli Award Rosa Ramirez Guerrero Richard Joel Noriega
Popular culture March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins. July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.
Sports Primera División de México Verano 2002 Primera División de México Apertura 2002 Film
Documentaries Gabriel Orozco Niños de la calle Los últimos zapatistas, héroes olvidados Acosada (De piel de víbora)
Fiction Amar te duele Aro Tolbukhin. En la mente del asesino Dark Cites (Ciudades oscuras) El crimen del padre Amaro eXXXorcismos Francisca (... De qué lado estás?) El gavilán de la sierra La habitación azul Seres humanos El tigre de Santa Julia Una de dos La virgen de la lujuria Births February 5 – Paulina Villarreal, drummer
Deaths January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914) October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931) October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).
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