2009 in Mexico

Federal government

• President: Felipe Calderón  PAN

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Guillermo Iberio Ortiz Mayagoitia

Governors

• January– A Swine flu pandemic occur right after the U.S. first case of the Flu.
• February 11 – Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announces the discovery of a 16th-century mass grave at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City.^[3]
• March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.^[4]
• March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in a bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.^[5]
• April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.^[6]
• April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.^[7]
• April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.^[8]
• April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.^[9]
• May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.^[10]
• May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.^[11]
• June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.^[12]
• July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.^[13]
• July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.^[14]
• August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.^[15]
• August 7 – 2009 Guanajuato and Hidalgo shootings: Shootouts leave at least 11 dead in the escalating violence since Mexico's continuing national crackdown on the illegal drug trade.^[16]
• August 4 – President Felipe Calderon receives Honduras President Manuel Zelaya in Los Pinos after a coup d'etat.^[17]
• August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.^[18]
• August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".^[19]
• September 9 – Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport.^[20]
• September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.^[21]
• December 16 – Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltrán Leyva, leader of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, is killed by personnel of the Mexican Navy during a shootout in Cuernavaca, Morelos.^[22]
• December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.^[23]
• December 25 – The death by gunshot wound of Expresiones de Tulum journalist Alberto Velázquez, the 12th journalist to be killed in Mexico in 2009, is announced.^[24]

Sports

Music

• List of number-one albums of 2009 (Mexico)

Film

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.^[25]
• January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure.^[26]
• February 6 – Claudio Reyes Núñez, politician  PRI, president of Otáez Municipality, Durango; murdered.^[27][28]
• February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.^[29]
• February 22 – Francisco Javier Rodríguez Aceves, politician PRD, former president of Petatlán (municipality), Guerrero: murdered.^[30]
• February 24 – Octavio Manuel Carrillo Castellanos, politician  PRI, municipal president of Vista Hermosa, Michoacán; murdered.^[31][32]
• March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.^[33]
• March 7 – |Gonzalo Paz Torres||N/A||Chief of city council||7 March 2009||Tancítaro, Michoacán||^[34][35]
• March 14 – Dimas Arzeta Cisneros, politician  PRI, former president of Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero; murdered.^[36]
• March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).^[37]
• March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.^[38]
• March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.^[39]
• March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.^[40]
• April 3 – Nicolás León Hernández, politician  PRI, former municipal president of Isla del Cayacal, Michoacán; murdered.^[41][42]
• April 7 – Gustavo Bucio Rodríguez, politician PRD, candidate for Deputy in Michoacán; murdered.^[43][44]
• April 20 – Alfonso Rivera Cruz, municipal president pro tempore of Zapotitlán Tablas (municipality), Guerrero; murdered.^[45]
• April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.^[46]
• April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.^[47]
• May 5 – Manuel Capetillo, bullfighter, singer, and actor; respiratory illness (b. 1926)
• May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.^[48]
• June 2 – Luis Carlos Ramírez López, politician  PAN, president of Ocampo Municipality; murdered.^[49][50]
• June 11 – Efraín Gutiérrez Arcos, politician  PRI, former municipal president of Santa Ana Maya, Michoacán; murdered.^[51][52]
• June 23 — Manuel Saval, 53, actor (b. 1956)
• July 14
  • Héctor Manuel Meixueiro Muñoz, politician  PAN, president of Namiquipa Municipality, Chihuahua; murdered.^[53][54]
  • Ismael Rivera, politician, treasurer of the municipality of Namiquipa, Chihuahua; murdered.^[55]
• July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.^[56]
• July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.^[57]
• August 20
  • Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.^[58]
  • Armando Chavarría Barrera, politician PRD, Deputy from Chilpancingo, Guerrero; murdered.^[59]
• August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.^[60]
• September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, politician; shot.^[61]
• October 9 – Estanislao García Santelis, politician, municipal president of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua; murdered.^[62]
• October 16 – José Sánchez Chávez, politician  PRI, former municipal president of Tiquicheo, Michoacán; murdered.^[63]
• October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.^[64]
• November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.^[65]
• November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.^[66]
• November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.^[67]
• November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.^[68]
• December 4: Leticia Palma (Zoyla Gloria Ruiz Moscoso), 82, actress (En la palma de tu mano), (b. 1926)^[69]
• December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.^[70]
• December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.^[71]