2007 in Mexico
# 2007 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2007 in Mexico.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Felipe Calderón PAN
* Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Patricia Espinosa
* Communications Secretary (SCT): Luis Téllez
* Education Secretary (SEP): Josefina Vázquez Mota
* Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Guillermo Galván Galván
* Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza
* Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Javier Lozano Alarcón
* Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL): Beatriz Zavala
* Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres
* Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada
* Secretary of Health (SALUD): José Ángel Córdova
* Secretary of Public Security (SSP): Genaro García Luna
* Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP): Agustín Carstens
* Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1
* Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas
* Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA)
   * German Martínez Cázares, until November 8
   * Salvador Vega Casillas, starting November 8
* Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez
* Secretary of Economy (SE): Eduardo Sojo Garza-Aldape
* Attorney General of Mexico (PRG): Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza

### Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

### Governors

* Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso PAN
* Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
* Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD
* Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PAN
* Chiapas: Juan Sabines Guerrero, Coalition for the Good of All
* Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
* Coahuila: Humberto Moreira PRI
* Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
* Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
* Guanajuato: Juan Manuel Oliva PAN
* Guerrero: Zeferino Torreblanca PRD
* Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
* Jalisco: Gerardo Solís Gómez PAN, substitute governor
* State of Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI
* Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
* Morelos: Marco Antonio Adame PAN
* Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
* Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
* Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
* Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI
* Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
* Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto PRI
* San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
* Sinaloa: Jesús Aguilar Padilla PRI
* Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
* Tabasco: Andrés Granier Melo PRI, starting January 1
* Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI
* Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
* Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
* Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
* Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
* Head of Government of the Federal District: Marcelo Ebrard PRD

## Events

* The Tortilla Price Stabilization Pact is agreed on.
* January 2: Operation Baja California
* January 11: The government of the state of Coahuila approves a Civil Solidarity Pact ("Pacto Civil de Solidaridad") that permits same sex civil unions statewide. Becoming the second local government to permit same-sex civil unions in Mexico.
* April 20–26: 2007 tornado outbreak sequence
* May 28: Miss Universe 2007
* June 15: Miss Latin America 2007
* September 20: 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures
* October: 2007 Tabasco flood
* October 6: Nuestra Belleza México 2007
* October 21: Kab 101

## Hurricanes

* May 29 – June 2: Tropical Storm Barbara (2007)
* August 13–27: Hurricane Dean Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico
* August 30 – September 6: Hurricane Henriette (2007)
* September 25–27: Hurricane Lorenzo (2007)
* October 15–23: Tropical Storm Kiko (2007)

## Elections

* 2007 Mexican elections

## Awards

* Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor - Carlos Castillo Peraza (post mortem)
* Order of the Aztec Eagle
* National Prize for Arts and Sciences
* National Public Administration Prize
* Ohtli Award
   * José Cisneros
   * Gerald Richard Barnes

## Popular culture

### Sports

* Primera División de México Clausura 2007
* Primera División de México Apertura 2007
* 2007 North American SuperLiga
* 2007 InterLiga
* 2007 Recopa Sudamericana
* 2007 Copa Sudamericana
* Copa Pachuca 2006
* 2007 Rally México
* 2007 NASCAR Corona Series season
* 2007 Gran Premio Tecate
* Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2007)
* 2007 CONCACAF and CONMEBOL Beach Soccer Championship
* 2007 FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship
* 2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup
* World Chess Championship 2007
* Mexico at the 2007 Pan American Games
* Mexican football transfers 2006–07

### Film

* List of 2007 box office number-one films in Mexico
* January 12 – Fuera del cielo
* February 16 – Morirse en domingo
* March 2 – J-ok'el
* March 9 – Niñas mal
* March 13 – La última mirada
* March 30 – Cuando las cosas suceden
* May 18 – J.C. Chávez

## Notable deaths

* January 2 – Sergio Jiménez, actor
* January 17 – Juan Reynoso Portillo
* January 20 – Alfredo Ripstein
* February 7 – Antonio Enríquez Savignac
* March 8 – Black Shadow
* March 12 – Antonio Ortiz Mena, economist and politician, former president of the Inter-American Development Bank
* March 16 – Pablo Emilio Madero
* March 20 – Albert Baez
* May 4 – José Antonio Roca
* June 19 – Antonio Aguilar
* June 19 – Enrique Canales
* July 4 – José Roberto Espinosa
* August 7 – Ernesto Alonso, actor, director, cinematographer, producer, pneumonia.
* October 2 – José Antonio Ríos Granados
* November 29 – Juan Antonio Guajardo Anzaldúa, politician, former municipal president ( PAN), Senator ( PRD), and Deputy, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas; murdered.
* December 3 – Sergio Gómez, lead vocalist for K-Paz de la Sierra, murdered.
