2009 in Mexico

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Events in the year 2009 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President: Felipe Calderón

For the list of governors of the states of Mexico, see Category:Lists of governors of States of Mexico.

Events

United States President Barack Obama bids farewell to the family of Mexican President Felipe Calderon following their meeting in Mexico City on April 16, 2009.

• 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.
• March 4 – 2009 Mexico prison riot: A riot at a prison near Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, kills at least 20 inmates and injures seven others.
• March 17 – At least 11 people are killed and four injured in an bus accident outside Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
• April 10 – Mexico City closes freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages.
• April 19 – Eight corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico.
• April 25 – Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza.
• April 27 – 2009 Guerrero earthquake: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.
• May 16 – The Gulf drug cartel liberates 59 inmates from a prison in Zacatecas, Mexico.
• May 22 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, Mexico.
• June 6 – 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire: a fire at a day-care center kills at least 40 people in Hermosillo, Mexico.
• July 3 – A 6.0 magnitude earthquake centred in the Sea of Cortez shakes western Mexico.
• July 5 – Mexico holds its legislative election.
• August 3 – Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.
• 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.
• August 15 – A prison riot in the Mexican state of Durango leaves at least 19 people dead and 20 injured.
• August 21 – Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use".
• 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.
• September 16 – Gunmen kill 10 people at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico.
• 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.
• December 21 – Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage and LGBT adoption.
• 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.

Popular culture

Sports

• 2009 Primera División de México Clausura
• 2009 Primera División de México Apertura
• 2009 InterLiga
• 2009 CONCACAF Champions League Finals
• Mexico national football team 2009
• 2009 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
• 2009 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
• Homenaje a Dos Leyendas (2009)
• 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Mexico
• 2009 LATAM Challenge Series season
• 2009 NASCAR Corona Series season
• 2009 NASCAR Mini Stock Series season
• 2009 Chihuahua Express
• 2009 Carrera Panamericana
• 2009 International Rally of Nations
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Manzanillo)
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Puerto Vallarta)
• 2009 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit (Tijuana)
• 2009 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
• 2009 FIVB Women's Junior World Championship
• Mexico at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
• 2009 Caribbean Series

Music

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

Film

Main article: Mexican films of 2009

• All inclusive
• Amar
• Amar a morir
• Cabeza de Buda
• Otra película de huevos y un pollo
• Tlatelolco: México 68
• Recién Cazado
• Sólo quiero caminar
• Secretos de familia
• Nikté

TV

Telenovelas

• Un gancho al corazón
• Mañana es para siempre
• Atrévete a soñar
• Verano de amor
• Mi pecado
• Camaleones
• Hasta que el dinero nos separe
• Sortilegio
• Alma de Hierro
• Pasión Morena
• Eternamente tuya
• Pobre diabla
• Los exitosos Pérez
• Corazón salvaje
• Mujer comprada

Notable deaths

Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos

• January 11 – Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
• January 14 – Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure.
• February 7 – Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack.
• March 3 – Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico.
• March 18 – Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993).
• March 22 – Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
• March 23 – Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer.
• March 26 – Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
• April 23 – Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest.
• April 30 – Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• May 5 – Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
• July 19 – Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes.
• July 22 – Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• August 20 – Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain.
• August 29 – Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes.
• September 6 – Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
• October 25 – Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
• November 6 – Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
• November 7 – Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
• November 16 – Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
• November 28 – Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes.
• December 7 – Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist.
• December 16 – Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot.