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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 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.
- 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- Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Héctor Fix Zamudio
- Order of the Aztec Eagle
- National Prize for Arts and Sciences
- National Public Administration Prize
- Ohtli Award
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 2002Documentaries
- 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
Births
- February 5 – Paulina Villarreal, drummer
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)
- 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).
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 Universal 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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