2011 in Mexico

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Events in the year 2011 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President: Felipe Calderón

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 – Seventeen 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 –
  • State elections in the State of Mexico.
  • State elections in Nayarit.
  • Voters in Mexico go to the polls for local elections in the states of Mexico, Coahuila, Nayarit, Puebla and Hidalgo.^[11]
• 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

Pedro Armendáriz, Jr.

• 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 City, United States.^[18]

See also

• 2011 Mexican fire season

References

External links

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