2017 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2017 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

2017
in
Mexico
Decades:
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Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

Events

January to March

  • 1 January – Consumers are concerned about abrupt increases in gasoline prices, known as el gasolinazo.[8]
  • 18 January – Colegio Americano del Noreste shooting; a 15-year-old student shoots a teacher and three classmates in Monterrey.[9]
  • 12 March – Former Interim governor Flavino Ríos Alvarado of Veracruz is arrested for covering up his predecessor's, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, crimes and helping him escape.[10]
  • 13 March – SEP announces educational reform measures.[11]
  • 14 March – A mass grave site of more than 250 people is discovered in Palmas de Abajo, Veracruz.[12]
  • 16 March – Prison escape in Culiacán.[13]
  • 31 March – A driver crashes after driving his car 200 kilometres (120 mi) per hour on Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City.[8]

April to June

  • 10 April – Former Tamaulipas governor Tomás Yarrington, (PRI), is arrested in Italy, charged with plotting the murder of gubnatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantú in 2010.[14]
  • 15 April – Former Veracruz governor Javier Duarte, (PRI, 2010–2016) is arrested in Panajachel, Sololá Department, Guatemala.[15]
  • 21 May – A 42-year-old Russian Nazi kills a 19-year-old man in Cancun after a mob tries to lynch the Russian. He had earlier posted anti-Mexican racist comments on YouTube, but authorities refused to deport him.[16]
  • 4 June – Elections[17]

July to September

October to December

Holidays, and observances

Awards

Deaths

January

Javier Valdez Cárdenas
  • January 1
    • Edson Tadeo Cárdenas Huerta (17), soccer player (Tigres UANL) (b. 1999).[35]
    • Martha Patricia Figueroa Juárez (53), social activist, businesswoman, politician in Cordoba, Veracruz; cáncer.[36]
    • Serafín Espinal (65), músician.[37]
  • January 2
    • Ernesto Franco Cobos, cultural promoter and writer in Tuxpan.[38]
    • Olegario Contreras Rubio, radio announcer in Sinaloa; heart problems.[39]
    • Analy Loera, businesswoman and cultural promoter; brain and lung cancer.[40]
  • January 3
  • January 5
    • Marco Francisco González Meza, public servant, accidente de tráfico.[43]
    • Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, Roman Catholic bishop of Tepic (b. 1931).[44]
    • Cesáreo Víctor Santiago López, polítician from Oaxaca; murdered.[45]
    • Carmen Sánchez Galán (45), public servant; complicaciones post-operative complications.[46]
  • January 15
  • January 16 – Romeo Gómez Aguilar (97), músician and academic (b. 1919).[48]
  • January 17 – Martín Barrón Félix (52), physicist and meteorologist; liver failure and anemia (b. 1964).
  • January 18 – Raúl Muñoz Popoca (77), businessman in tourist industry.[49]
  • January 19
    • David Contreras, polítician (PRI) and public servant; diabetes.[50]
    • Fernando Soto (17), músician from Jalisco; drowning.[51]
  • January 20 – Abraham Ibarra Robles, public servant from Santa María Colotepec, Oaxaca; murdered.[52]
  • January 21 – Fernando Maiz Garza (57), businessman, builder, and philanthropist; airplane crash (b. 1959).[53]
  • January 22
    • Jesus Garcia, 72, boxer.[54]
    • Juan Huerta Ortega (67), businessman and rancher from Puebla; heart attack (b. 1949).[55]
    • Isidro Patrón Lara, musician.[56]
  • January 23 – Giovanni Arturo Amparan Zaragoza (30), businessman; shot.[57]
  • January 24
    • Ismael Gutiérrez (79), boxer (b. 1937).[58]
    • Antolín Vital Martínez, polítician, mayor of Tepexco, Puebla; murdered.[59]
  • January 25
  • January 26 – Javier García Narro, businessperson and leader of Coparmex (a business association) in Saltillo, Coahuila.[62]
  • January 27
    • Fredman Cruz Maldonado, singer; lung problems.[63]
    • Mario Palestina Moreno (45), baseball player; heart attack (b. 1971).[64]
  • January 28
    • Benjamín Cabral, filmmaker.[65]
    • Víctor Hugo Saldaña Gutiérrez (22), soccer player; murdered (b. November 8, 1994).[66]
  • January 29
    • Omar Jair Canepa Polanco, public servant; murdered.[67]
    • Ángel García Cook (79), anthropologist and researcher (INAH) (b. 1937).[68]
    • Jorge Robles, músician and singer; cáncer.[69]
  • January 30 – Fidel Briano (72), lawyer and journalist.[70]
  • January 31
    • Pedro Koh Cimé, Yucatan polítician; murdered.[71]
    • José Luis Lagunes López, public servant; cáncer.[72]

February

March

  • March 3
    • Rolando Arellano Sánchez (22), músician and singer ("Grupo Contacto"), murdered.[80]
    • Miguel Guzmán Rosales (66), painter.[81]
  • March 5
    • Abril Campillo (58), actress; breast cancer (b. 1958).[82]
    • Tony Flores (67), comedian; Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.[83]
    • Alejandro Rosales (49), television star (El Sibidibidi); heart attack.[84]
    • José Ignacio Rosillo Rodríguez (85), journalist.[85]
  • March 6 – Jesús Silva Herzog Flores, 81, economist and politician (PRI) (b. 1935)[86]
  • March 9
    • Enrique Ortiz Rivas, mathematician, politician, and labor leader; surgical complications.[87]
    • Raquel Parot (92), actress[88]
    • Juan Gabriel Sánchez Gómez (43), leader of taxi drivers in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.[89]
    • Zorro (62), singer and politician, stroke.[90]
  • March 12
    • Mario Agredano Brambila (88), radio and television announcer, reporter, and commentator in Nuevo Leon.[91]
    • Joaquín Arizpe de la Maza, businessman and philanthropist.[92]
    • Refugio Arturo García Moreno (63), education leader ("Conalep"); heart attack.[93]
    • Raúl Maldonado Mendoza, poet and orator from Oaxaca; heart attack.[94]
  • March 13 – Sarah Jiménez, engraving artist, member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana; respiratory problems (b. 1927).[95]
  • March 14 – José Iván Ponce, labor leader in Tizayuca, Hidalgo; murdered.[96]
  • March 15 – Armando Garza Sada (84), engineer, businessman (Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery), and banker (Banco de Londres y México and Banpais).[97]
  • March 18
  • March 19 – José Reza Fernández (61), polítician in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila; suicide.[100]
  • March 20
  • March 21
    • Víctor Bartoli (65), writer (Mujer Alabastrina) from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.[105]
    • Marco Villafán (64), translator and adaptor of theatrical productions.[106]
  • March 23 – Miroslava Breach, 54, journalist (La Jornada and El Norte de Chihuahua); murdered (b. August 7, 1962).[107]
  • March 29
    • Felipe Altamirano Carrillo, Indigenous priest from Nayarit; murdered.[108]
    • Dennis Palomo (21), comedian; suicide.[109]
    • Aurelio Prado Flores (68), Roman Catholic social activist and columnist (La Voz) (B. 1949).[110]
    • Leodegario Varela González, polítician from Zacatecas; cáncer.[111]
  • March 30 – Six murders in Oaxaca:[112]
  • March 31 – Rubén Amaro Sr., 81, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees) and coach, World Series champion (1980); natural causes (b. 1936).[113]

April

May

  • May 1 – Santos Vega Camargo (73), actor and theater director ("El Confesionario") from Torreón (b. November 1, 1943.[131]
  • May 3 – José Herrera Aispuro (51), director of the College of Accounting and Administration of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa; murdered.[132]
  • May 4 – Guadalupe González Saíno (30), polítician from Jopala, Puebla; murdered.[133]
  • May 7 – Gran Apache, 58, professional wrestler (AAA), intestinal cancer.[134]
  • May 11
    • José Manuel Amarillas Monjardín, polítician from Novolato, Sinaloa; murdered.[135]
    • Andrea Romero Rojas, food propomoter (cacao) from Zacatelco, Tlaxcala (b. 1953).[136]
  • May 12
    • Miguel Ángel Sánchez Morán, public servant and criminal lawyer from Mazatlán; murdered.[137]
  • May 13
  • Enrique Barrera Chávez (86), form tresurer of Coahuila.[139]
  • May 15
  • May 16 – Mario Moreno Ivanova (57), comedian, son of Cantinflas (b. 1960).[144]
  • May 17 – Raúl Córdoba, 93, soccer player (Club Atlas, national team) (b. March 13, 1924).[145]
  • May 18
  • May 19 – David Sánchez, 25, flyweight boxer, traffic collision.[150]
  • May 20 – Miguel Vázquez Torres, Indigenous Huichol leader; murdered.[151]
  • May 22 – Santiago Salas de León, académic, writer, and rector of open university.[152]
  • May 24 – Miguel Ángel Camacho Zamudio, physician and public servant (director of ISSSTE in Mazatlan); murdered.[153]
  • May 25 – Juan Carlos Zamarripa Fernández, polítician, mayor of Pánuco, Veracruz; murdered.[154]
  • May 27 – Jaasiel Hernán Contreras Vega, photographer; murdered.[155]
  • May 31 – Fernando Sarabia Beltrán (108), académic and activist.[156]

June

  • June 2 – Armando Mendoza Duarte (48), polítician; murdered (b. 1969).
  • June 3
  • June 5
    • Eduardo Catarino Dircio, politician (Morena) from Tixtla de Guerrero municipality, Guerrero; killed by state police.[158]
    • Eleazar Vargas Lara, community leader and politician from Iguala, Guerrero; murdered.[159]
    • Ana Winocur (44), journalist; pancreatitis (b. October 1972).[160]
  • June 6 – Jorge Ortiz Murray, leader of fishermen in Mazatlan; heart attack.[161]
  • June 8
  • June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.[164]
  • June 10 – Luis Fuentes Molinar, 89, journalist and politician (PRI), former mayor of Chihuahua (1977-1980) and federal Deputy (1973-1976).[165]
  • June 11 – Radamés Díaz Meza, Culiacán, Sinaloa, businessman; murdered.[166]
  • June 15 – Raúl Miranda Valencia, 48, lawyer and public servant from Michoacan; murdered.[167]
  • June 17 – Luis Rey Sifuentes, politician (Morena) from Chihuahua; shot.
  • June 21 – Ulises Hueto Elizalde ("El Chispa") (33), boxer from Mexico City; murdered.[168]
  • June 23 – Eva Castañeda Cortés (87), social activist (Unión de Comuneros Emiliano Zapata) from Morelia, Michoacan.[169]
  • June 24
    • Camilo Juan Castagne Velazco, police commissioner of La Antigua, Veracruz; murdered alongside another police officer.[170]
    • Jorge Humberto Higareda Magaña (75), businessman and leader of truckers in Puebla (b. 1942).
  • June 26
    • Salvador Adame, journalist from Gabriel Zamora, Michoacan; murdered (found dead this date).[171]
    • Alejandro Zepeda Ortiz (27), journalist and reporter from Chiapas; suicide.
  • June 27
  • June 29
    • Rodolfo Díaz ("Chivo") (78), boxer and trainer; diabetes.
    • Vinicio Ferrer Merino, polítician, mayor of San Mateo Sindihui, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.[174]
    • Demetrio Jaime Martínez Benítez, politician, former mayor of San Francisco Cahuacúa, Oaxaca; killed during agrarian conflict.[175]
    • Meztli Sarabia Reyna, activist (Unión Popular de Vendedores Ambulantes (UPVA) “28 de Octubre”) from Puebla; murdered.[176]
  • June 30 – Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, bullfighter, gored.[164]

July

  • July 1
  • July 2
  • July 3 – José Luis Cuevas, 83, artist.[181]
  • July 4 – Walter González Arriaga, polítician; murdered.[182]
  • July 5 – Luis López Villa (71), Catholic priest from Los Reyes La Paz, State of Mexico; throat slit.[183]
  • July 6
    • David Alonso López, 39, boxer, shot.[184]
    • Mariano Herrán Salvatti (68), lawyer and civil servant; liver condition.[185]
    • Héctor Villasana Rosales (78), lawyer and académic; anemia.[186]
  • July 7
    • Sergio Fuentes Gutiérrez, lawyer and researcher.[187]
    • Jorge Juan Rodriguez Reyes, labor leader; automobile accident.[188]
  • July 8 – Guadalupe Baltazar Rojas, chronicler and craftswoman from Ixtenco, Tlaxcala.[189]
  • July 9 – Diego Zavala Pérez (85), lawyer, académic, and polítician, father of Margarita Zavala; heart attack.[190]
  • July 10 – Pedro Joaquín Alberto Cárdenas Segura, músician, composer, and orquestra director.[191]
  • July 13 – Héctor Lechuga, 88, comedian, actor and radio personality (México 2000), heart attack.[192]
  • July 14
  • July 17 – Martha Nava (75), Mexico's best female basketball player.[196]
  • July 18
    • Irma Camacho García (67), polítician (substitute mayor of Temixco, Morelos, 2016–2017); cardiorespiratory arrest.[197]
    • Erika Mireles, voice actress ("The Simpsons" and "Doña Clotilde").[198]
  • July 19 – Hortensia de la Concepción Orozco Tejada, polítician; stroke.[199]
  • July 20 – Felipe de Jesús Pérez Luna (48), criminal; shot by police.[200]
  • July 21 – Ángel Padilla, músician (harp player).[201]

July 22

    • Juan Bernardo Ruvalcaba, boxer and trainer; killed during robbery.[202]
    • José Arturo Tolosa Campos (59), Sinaloa photojournalist (El Debate); accidente de tránsito.[203]
  • July 23 – Erwin Trejo (47), singer (Juan Gabriel's twin); murdered.[204]
  • July 24
  • July 25
    • Gerardo Gallardo (49), actor ("Chef Ornica") (b. 1967).[207]
    • David Vera Jiménez (54), public servant in Mexico City; heart attack.[208]
  • July 26
    • Saúl Escudero Pozos (48), polítician and public servant; cáncer.[209]
    • Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.[210]
  • July 28 – Luis Arturo Porras Aceves (78), journalist and reporter (El Heraldo de Chihuahua) (b. 1939).[211]
  • July 31
    • Lorenzo Arroyo, immigration activist; amyloidosis.[212]
    • Baltazar Maldonado Rosales (55), polítician (former mayor of Apizaco Municipality, Tlaxcala; renal insufficiency and cáncer (b. 1961).[213]
    • Luciano Rivera, journalist and reporter ("Dictamen" and TV channel CNR (176)) in Mexicali; murdered.[214]
    • José Trinidad Ventura González (42), Presbyterian Church elder in Orizaba.[215]

August

September

  • September 2
    • Gabriela del Valle, actress (Maten a la hiena).[251]
    • Alejo García García, académic (Instituto Universitario Londres), public servant, and chef.[252]
    • Oscar Javier González Torres ("El Espectaculo"), 62, músician, actor y comedian; cáncer of the páncreas.[253]
    • Marisela Ortega Lozano, journalist ("El Paso Times," "El Diario de El Paso," and Reforma); cáncer.[254]
  • September 3 – Sugar Ramos, 75, Cuban-Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, WBA/WBC featherweight champion (1963–1964), cancer (b. December 2, 1941).[255]
  • September 4 – José Trinidad Sepúlveda Ruiz-Velasco, 96, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuxtla (1965–1988) and San Juan de los Lagos (1988–1999), respiratory complications (b. March 30, 1921).[256]
  • September 5 – José Durán González, 67, polítician, former mayor of Pueblo Nuevo, Guanajuato; murdered.[257]
  • September 6 – Raúl Castañeda (34), boxer; murdered (b. 1982).
  • September 11
  • September 12 – Álvaro Matute Aguirre (74), historian (UNAM) (b. April 19, 1943).
  • September 27 – Hiromi Hayakawa, 34, Japanese-born Mexican actress (El Chema) and singer (La Academia), liver hemorrhage during childbirth.[260]
  • September 28 – Karla Luna (38), actress (Las Lavanderas) and singer; cancer (b. September 25, 1979).[261]

October

  • October 2 – Evangelina Elizondo, 88, actress (Premio Arlequín 2014; voice of Cinderella in the Walt Disney film), natural causes (b. 1929).[262]
  • October 4 – Luis de la Hidalga y Enríquez (93), lawyer, public servant, writer ("El Violador de la Rosa", "La Venganza de Lady Wilshire"), and académic (b. December 12, 1923).
  • October 5 – Édgar Esqueda, journalist (Vox Populi); murdered.[263]
  • October 6 – Stalin Sánchez, mayor of Paracho de Verduzco, Michoacan; murdered.[264]
  • October 10 – Manuel Hernández Pasión, mayor of Huitzilan de Serdán, Puebla; murdered along with his wife and a security guard.[265]
  • October 15 – Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, engineer, ambassador, politician (PRI), Senator (1982–1988), governor of San Luis Potosi (1991-1992); (b. March 10, 1928).
  • October 16 – Cecilia Méndez, 60, radio announcer in Zapopan, Puebla; murdered.[266]
  • October 19
    • Gaspar Jesús Azcorra Alejos (75), Yucatan priest, writer, and poet (b. 1942).
    • Julio Chávez Hernández, polítician (PT) and social activist in Veracruz.[267]
  • October 20 – Crispín Gutiérrez Moreno, politician (PRI), rancher, and mayor of Ixtlahuacán, Colima; murdered.[268]
  • October 21 – Rosaura Barahona, 75, journalist (El Norte) and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.[269]

November

December

  • December 5 – Iliana Godoy Patiño (65), narrator, researcher, and poet ("Contralianza" and "Mastil en Tierra") (b. January 22, 1952).[283]
  • December 8 – Juan Celada Salmón, 101, engineer (Ternium) and inventor (Proceso HYL) (b. February 14, 1916).[284]
  • December 11 – Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (1988–1991) (b. April 10, 1947).[285]
  • December 14 – Javier Villalobos Jaramillo (76), architect, restaurer and académic (b. April 30, 1941).[286]
  • December 15 – Rubén Pato Soria, 75, professional wrestler.[287]
  • December 18
    • Emilio Alvarado Badillo (56), photographer, civil engineer, public servant and académic (ITESM, State of Mexico) (b. 1951).[288]
    • Ricardo Miledi (90), neuro-scientist (Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y de la Academia Nacional de Medicina de México) (b. September 15, 1927).[289]
    • Ricardo Suriano (67), journalist (Charamupa) from Tonalá, Chiapas.
  • December 19
    • Gumaro Pérez Aguilando (34), journalist and reporter (La Voz del Sur) in Acayucan, Veracruz; murdered.[290]
    • Fernando Villares Moreno ("Zorro"), 62, singer ("Fugitivo"); stroke.[291]
  • December 20 – Jesús Castillo Rangel (121), Revolutionary and farmer, Mexico's oldest man; respiratory insufficiency and pneumonia.(b. October 24, 1896).[292]
  • December 24
  • December 25
    • Rudy Casanova (50), Cuban-born Mexican actor (Amores con trampa and Hasta el fin del mundo); breathing problems (b. November 3, 1967).[298]
    • Alfredo Guzman Guzman, former mayor of Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato (1977-1979).[299]
    • José Luis Sánchez Camacho (85), músician.
  • December 28
    • David Antón (93), scenographer and costume designer (b. 1924).
    • Saúl Galindo Plazola, polítician (PRD), former mayor of Tomatlán (2013-2015), Jalisco; murdered.[300]
    • Arturo Gómez Pérez, polítician mayor of Petatlán, Guerrero; murdered.[301]
    • Luis Abraham González Contreras (31), photographer y reporter; murdered.
    • Gerardo Olavarrieta León, hotel owner ("Suites Kokai", "Plaza Kokai", and "Condominios Kokai") in Cancun, Quintana Roo.[302]
    • Mario Stern (81), composer and académic (b. 1936).[303]
  • December 31

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