2002 in Mexico
# 2002 in Mexico

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

## Notable 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).
