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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

Interior Secretary (SEGOB)
- Santiago Creel, until November 30
- Francisco Javier Ramírez Acuña, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE)
- Luis Ernesto Derbez, until November 30
- Patricia Espinosa, starting December 1^[1]
Communications Secretary (SCT)
- Pedro Cerisola, until November 30
- Luis Téllez, starting December 1^[1]
Education Secretary (SEP)
- Reyes Tamez, until November 30
- Josefina Vázquez Mota, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Defense (SEDENA)
- Gerardo Clemente Vega, until November 30
- Guillermo Galván Galván, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Navy (SEMAR)
- Marco Antonio Peyrot González, until November 30
- Mariano Francisco Saynez Mendoza, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS)
- Francisco Javier Salazar Sáenz, until November 30
- Javier Lozano Alarcón, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Welfare (SEDESOL)
- Josefina Vázquez Mota, until November 30
- Beatriz Zavala, starting December 1^[1]
Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Rodolfo Elizondo Torres^[1]
Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT)
- José Luis Luege Tamargo, until November 30
- Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Health (SALUD)
- Julio Frenk, until November 30
- José Ángel Córdova, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Public Security (SSP)
- Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, until November 30
- Genaro García Luna, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP)
- Francisco Gil Díaz, until November 30
- Agustín Carstens, starting December 1^[1]
Secretariat of Energy (Mexico) (SENER): Georgina Yamilet Kessel Martínez, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Agriculture (SAGARPA): Alberto Cárdenas, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Public Function (FUNCIÓN PÚBLICA): German Martínez Cázares, starting December 1^[1]
Secretary of Agrarian Reform (SRA): Germán Martínez, starting December 1^[1]
Attorney General of Mexico (PRG)
- Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, until November 30
- Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza, starting December 1^[1]

Supreme Court

President of the Supreme Court: Mariano Azuela Güitrón

Governors

Aguascalientes: Luis Armando Reynoso PAN
Baja California: Eugenio Elorduy Walther PAN
Baja California Sur: Narciso Agúndez Montaño PRD
Campeche: Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez PAN
Chiapas
- Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía PRD, until December 7
- Juan Sabines Guerrero, (Coalition for the Good of All), starting December 8
Chihuahua: José Reyes Baeza Terrazas PRI
Coahuila: Humberto Moreira PRI
Colima: Gustavo Vázquez Montes PRI
Durango: Ismael Hernández PRI
Guanajuato
- Juan Carlos Romero Hicks PAN, until September 25
- Juan Manuel Oliva PAN, starting September 26
Guerrero: Zeferino Torreblanca PRD
Hidalgo: Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong PRI
Jalisco
- Alberto Cárdenas PAN, until November 20
- Gerardo Solís Gómez PAN, substitute governor
State of Mexico: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI
Michoacán: Lázaro Cárdenas Batel PRD
Morelos
- Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez PAN, until October 1.^[2]
- Marco Antonio Adame PAN, starting October 1.^[3]
Nayarit: Ney González Sánchez
Nuevo León: Fernando Canales Clariond PAN
Oaxaca: Ulises Ruiz Ortiz PRI
Puebla: Mario Plutarco Marín Torres PRI
Querétaro: Francisco Garrido Patrón PAN
Quintana Roo: Félix González Canto PRI
San Luis Potosí: Jesús Marcelo de los Santos PAN
Sinaloa: Juan S. Millán PRI, until December 31
Sonora: Eduardo Bours PRI
Tabasco: Manuel Andrade Díaz PAN, until December 31
Tamaulipas: Eugenio Hernández Flores PRI
Tlaxcala: Alfonso Sánchez Anaya PRD
Veracruz: Fidel Herrera Beltrán PRI
Yucatán: Víctor Cervera Pacheco PRI
Zacatecas: Amalia García PRD
Head of Government of the Federal District
- Alejandro Encinas Rodríguez PRD, until December 4
- Marcelo Ebrard PRD, starting December 5

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

Awards

Popular culture

Sports

Music

Film

Literature

TV

Telenovelas

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]

References

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^ Cinta, Guillermo (Nov 19, 2018). "LA HISTORIA DEL NARCO EN MORELOS". La Crónica de Morelos | Noticias | Guillermo Cinta (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Marco Antonio Adame Castillo". Líderes Mexicanos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on September 3, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^ "Sierra de Huautla". UNESCO Ecological Sciences for Sustainable Development. July 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
^ "¿Sabías qué...? - Tierra, Jojutla y Campo" [Did you know...? - Earth, Jojutla, and Fields] (in Spanish). Agencia Espacial Mexicana. October 18, 2017. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
^ Eichner, Itamar (October 16, 2010). "Making aliyah on board a yacht". Ynet News.
^ "Violencia sin freno". Proceso (in Spanish). 23 July 2006. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
^ García, Elsa (16 July 2006). "Ejecutan a alcalde panista en Jalisco". Esmas.com (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
^ "Pablo Santos, 19; Actor Had Role on WB's 'Greetings From Tucson'". LA Times (archive). 17 September 2006. Retrieved 18 January 2022.