2002 in Mexico explained

Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Federal government

See also: Cabinet of Mexico.

• 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 Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther Baja California Sur

Leonel Cota Montaño,

• Campeche: José Antonio González Curi
  • • • Chiapas: Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía Chihuahua: Patricio Martínez García Coahuila: Enrique Martínez y Martínez Colima: Fernando Moreno Peña
        • • • Durango: Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier Guanajuato: Juan Carlos Romero Hicks Guerrero: René Juárez Cisneros Hidalgo: Manuel Ángel Núñez Soto Jalisco: Alberto Cárdenas State of Mexico: Arturo Montiel Michoacán
  • Víctor Manuel Tinoco Rubí (date not available)
  • Lázaro Cárdenas Batel (date not available)
• Morelos: Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez .^[1]
• Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría Domínguez
  • • • • • Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond Oaxaca: José Murat Casab Puebla: Melquíades Morales Querétaro: Ignacio Loyola Vera Quintana Roo: Joaquín Hendricks Díaz San Luis Potosí: Fernando Silva Nieto
• Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán
  • Sonora: Armando López Nogales Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz, starting January 1
    • • • • Tamaulipas: Tomás Yarrington Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya Veracruz: Miguel Alemán Velasco Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco Zacatecas: Ricardo Monreal Head of Government of the Federal District

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^[2]
  • • • 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

See 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

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)
• 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).^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cinta . Guillermo . LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS . La Crónica de Morelos Noticias Guillermo Cinta . August 28, 2020 . es . Nov 19, 2018.
2. Web site: Zárate Vite . Arturo . Dará Senado presea a Héctor Fix Zamudio . El Universal . August 28, 2020 . es . 7 Oct 2002.
3. Web site: Maria Feliz: 10 datos intimos de la diva del cine mexicano. Mejia. Carolina. El Universal de10.mx. es. Maria Feliz: 10 intimate facts about the diva of Mexican Cinema.
4. Web site: Biografia de Iván Illich. Biografiasyvidas.com. 15 January 2019.
5. Web site: Ivan Illich. Encyclopaedia Britannica. June 1, 2019.