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This is a list of events that happened in 2006 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

President

• President
  • Vicente Fox  PAN, until November 30
  • Felipe Calderón  PAN, starting December 1

Cabinet

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

Events

• The Broad Progressive Front is founded
• The Garros Galería is established.
• The Televisa Law is approved.
• The Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve is declared by the UNESCO in Morelos.^[4]
• The Biosphere Reserve of Huatulco is declared by the UNESCO in Oaxaca.
• January: The Other Campaign
• January 25: Juana Barraza is apprehended.
• February 4: Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident.
• February 19: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster
• March: Santiago Mexquititlán raid
• April 10: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust
• April 17: Maltrata bus crash
• May: Jojutla crater discovered on Mars by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.^[5]
• May 3: 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco
• May 27: Eutelsat 113 West A is launched.
• June 17: Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
• June 27: Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport inaugurated.
• June 28: Miss Latin America 2006 held in Riviera Maya.
• September 2: Nuestra Belleza México 2006
• September 16: the Faro del Comercio is re-inaugurated.
• November 10: The government of Mexico City approves a law on civil unions, becoming the first local government to allow same sex unions in Mexico.
• December 11: Beginning of the Mexican Drug War
• unknown date: Galia Moss, a Latin American sailor crosses the Atlantic Ocean alone.^[6]

Elections

• 2006 Mexican general election
• 2006 Chiapas state election
• 2006 Colima state election
• 2006 Mexican Federal District election
• 2006 Guanajuato state election
• 2006 Jalisco state election
• 2006 Nuevo León state election
• 2006 Sonora state election
• 2006 State of Mexico election
• 2006 Tabasco state election

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

• Primera División de México Clausura 2006
• Primera División de México Apertura 2006
• 2006 InterLiga
• 2005 Copa Sudamericana Finals
• Mexico compete at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
• Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional
• 2006 Desafío Corona season
• 2006 Gran Premio Telmex
• 2006 Rally México
• 2006 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2006)
• 2006 Centrobasket Women in Mexico City.
• 2006 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in Baja California.
• Mexico at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

Music

Film

• Una película de huevos
• Efectos secundarios – September 1
• Pretendiendo
• Pan's Labyrinth – October 2
• Así del precipicio
• Cansada de besar sapos – December

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

• Heridas de Amor
• La fea más bella
• Código postal – May 22

Notable deaths

• January 1 – Mapita Cortés, 75, Puerto Rican -born actress of the cinema of Mexico
• January 13 – Raúl Anguiano, 90, painter and muralist, heart failure.
• February 10 – Juan Soriano, 85, painter and sculptor.
• February 12 – Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, entrepreneur and co-founder of the  PAN.
• March 7 – Ludwik Margules, 72, theatre director, cancer. [1]
• March 29 – Salvador Elizondo, 73, writer. [2]
• April 5 – Armando Labra, 62, economist. [3]
• April 20 – Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, film director. [4]
• April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, 71, actress and director, heart attack.
• May 4 – Valentin Trujillo, 55, actor, heart attack.
• May 22 – Lilia Prado, 78, actress, multiple organ failure. [5]
• May 23 – Ángel Fernández, 80, sports broadcaster, renal failure.[6]
• July 15 – Raúl Delgado Benavides, politician, Municipal president (Cuautitlán, Jalisco); murdered^[7][8]
• August 4 – Julio Galán, 47, painter
• September 15 – Pablo Santos, 19, actor^[9]
• October 9 – Mario Moya Palencia, 73, politician, heart attack.
• October 24 – Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, writer, lung cancer. [7]
• November 1 – Daniel García "Huracán Ramírez", 80, wrestler, heart attack. [8]
• November 6 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, singer, bronchitis. [9]
• November 19 – Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, General. Cancer. [10]
• November 23 – Jesús Blancornelas, 70, journalist, cancer. [11]