2015 in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2015 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Enrique Peña Nieto PRI

Governors

Events

January

January 7: CENAPRED reported that ash from recent explosions coats the snow on the Popocateptl volcano's upper slopes.
January 29: An explosion occurred in a maternal hospital in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, leaving 7 dead and 60 injured.

February

February 13: A bus crashes with a freight train in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, killing at least sixteen people and injuring 30.
February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.

March

March 3: During the international tour, in search of foreign investment, President Enrique Peña Nieto, makes various economic, financial and cultural agreements with the Queen Elizabeth II.

April

April 4: Lunar Eclipse
April 8: Mexico issues a 100-year bond for 1.5 billion euros, equivalent to 620 million dollars.

May

May 22: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Covarrubias dies general director of ISSSTE
May 27: The SCT opens audits on contracts awarded to OHL
May 27: Nestora Salgado will be transferred to another prison, that of Tepepan.
May 28: Murder of coordinator of Panista candidate in the delegation Azcapotzalco.
May 28: The INE agrees to pay $10,000 to Rigoberta Menchú.
May 31: Santos champion by defeating the team of Querétaro (5–3).

June

June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.

July

July 11: Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the notorious Mexican drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, escaped from the maximum-security Altiplano Federal Prison in Almoloya de Juárez. This was his second escape from a Mexican prison, his first being in 2001.

November

November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico.

Awards

Deaths

January 1: Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress (Aventurera), heart attack.
January 3: Jaime Romero Móran, 22, gymnast, shot.
January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist (Excélsior and Proceso).
January 25: Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor (Dos Corazones y un Cielo) and singer, complications from a stroke.
January 27: Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, politician, MP for Guanajuato (1949–1952, 1979–1982), Governor of Guanajuato (1985–1991).
February 7: Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, businessman (b. 1932)
February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.
February 19: Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer (Guadalajara).
February 25: Ariel Camacho, 22, singer, traffic collision.
March 12: Magda Guzmán, 83, actress, heart attack.
March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
March 21: Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, professional wrestler (AAA), stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
March 22: Julieta Marín Torres, 71, politician, MP for Puebla (2009–2012), lung cancer.
April 3: Rocío García Gaytán, 55, politician, MP (1997–2000), cancer.
April 10: Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona (1975–1977), Ambassador to El Salvador (1964–1968), Bolivia (1968–1969) and Argentina (1977–1980).
April 13: Joselyn Alejandra Niño, c. 20, suspected assassin, shot.
April 23
- Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, comic artist (Memín Pinguín, MAD).
- Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa (1988–1991), MP for Veracruz (1994–1997).
April 24: Max Rojas, 74, poet.
May 1: María Elena Velasco, 74, actress, comedian and film producer (La India María), stomach cancer.
May 21: Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, ALS.
June 10: Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, politician (PAN).
June 12: Andrés Mora, 60, baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians), pneumonia.
June 21: Juan José Estrada, 51, boxer, WBA bantamweight champion (1988–1989), stabbed.
June 26: Gustavo Sainz, 74, writer.
July 2: Jacobo Zabludovsky, 87, Recognized communicator who directed for more than 20 years the main news on national network; stroke. (b. 1928)
July 13: Joan Sebastian, 64, Popular singer and composer from Guerrero; bone cancer. (b. 1951)
July 21: Gelsen Gas, 82, artist and filmmaker.
July 31: Rubén Espinosa, 31, photographer and journalist. murdered.
August 15: Manuel Mendívil, 79, equestrian, Olympic medalist (1980).
August 16: Jacob Bekenstein, 68, Mexican-born Israeli-American theoretical physicist.
August 23
- Ricardo García Sainz, 85, administrator and politician, Federal deputy (1997–2000).
- Eugenio Méndez Docurro, 92, politician and engineer, Secretary of Communications and Transportation (1970–1976).
September 7: Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack.
September 17: Eraclio Zepeda, 78, author and politician.
September 19: Enrique Ballesté, 68, theater director.
September 25: Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).
October 9: Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, women's rights activist.
October 11: Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.
October 14: José Luis García, 91, baseball player and manager (Tigres de Quintana Roo).
October 22: Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, politician, member of the Senate (2006–2012), plane crash.
November 6: José Ángel Espinoza, 96, singer, composer and actor.
November 12: José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
November 21: Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975)
December 4: Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla (1996–2009).
December 16: Lizmark, 64, professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
December 24: Romeo Anaya, 69, boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion (1973).