2011 in Mexico
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Events in the year 2011 in Mexico.
Incumbents
Events
August 25 - 2011 Monterrey casino attack: Casino Royale in fire, after the attack
- January 6 – the poet and women's rights activist Susana Chávez is murdered in Ciudad Juarez.
- January 14 – Mexican Drug War: 14 people are killed in a shootout after 100 soldiers, marines and police in Xalapa, Veracruz, surround a house.[1][2]
- January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.[3]
- January 30 – State elections in Guerrero.
- February 6 – State elections in Baja California Sur.
- February 8 – The Mexican Army rescues 44 Guatemalan immigrants in Reynosa in northern Mexico.[4]
- February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.[5]
- February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.[6]
- February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.[7]
- March 1 – 17 bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.[8]
- April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.[9]
- June 7 – The former Governor of Chiapas state in Mexico Pablo Salazar is arrested on charges on embezzling more than $90 million from hurricane relief funds.[10]
- May 8 – Bicentennial celebrations in Monterrey.
- July 3 –
- August 8 - Monterrey Tech bombing: A homemade bomb explodes at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Estado de México Campus in Atizapán de Zaragoza. The bomb was sent to a professor of robotics who was injured along with a guard at the university.[12][13]
- August 25 - 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.[14][15]
- August 30 - The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.[16]
- November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.
Notable deaths
- January 7 – Saúl Vara Rivera, Mexican politician, Mayor of Zaragoza, Coahuila, shot. (body found on this date)
- January 10 – Abraham Ortíz Rosales, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temoac, shot.
- January 11 – Susana Chávez, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled. (death confirmed on this date)
- January 13 – Luis Jiménez Mata, Mexican politician, Mayor of Santiago Amoltepec, shot.
- December 24 - José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (1992-2011), heart attack.[17]
- December 26 - Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, actor (Zorro series), cancer and died in New York, United States.[18]
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