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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

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

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.^[1]
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

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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

Main article: Orders, decorations, and medals of Mexico

Popular culture

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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

Music

Film

Main article: Mexican films of 2002

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

Literature

TV

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)^[3]
October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)^[4]
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).^[5]^[6]

References

^ Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ Zárate Vite, Arturo (7 Oct 2002). "Dará Senado presea a Héctor Fix Zamudio". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ Mejia, Carolina. "Maria Feliz: 10 datos intimos de la diva del cine mexicano" [Maria Feliz: 10 intimate facts about the diva of Mexican Cinema] (in Spanish). El Univerasl de10.mx.
^ Pilar Mandujano Jacobo (September 25, 2018), "Emilio García Riera", Enciclopedia de la Literatura en Mexico (in Spanish), retrieved August 23, 2019
^ "Biografia de Iván Illich". Biografiasyvidas.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^ "Ivan Illich". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved June 1, 2019.

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