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
Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong
Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) José Antonio Meade, until August 25 Claudia Ruiz Massieu, starting August 27 Communications Secretary (SCT): Gerardo Ruiz Esparza Education Secretary (SEP) Emilio Chuayffet, until August 27 Aurelio Nuño Mayer, starting August 27 Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda Secretary of Navy (SEMAR): Vidal Francisco Soberón Sanz Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS): Secretary of Welfare (BIENESTAR) Rosario Robles, until August 27 José Antonio Meade, starting August 27 Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Claudia Ruiz Massieu, until August 27 Enrique de la Madrid Cordero, starting August 27 Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT) Juan José Guerra Abud, until August 27 Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, starting August 27 Secretary of Health (SALUD): Mercedes Juan López Secretary of Finance and Public Credit, (SHCP): Luis Videgaray Caso
Governors
Aguascalientes: Carlos Lozano de la Torre
Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid
Baja California Sur
Marcos Covarrubias Villaseñor , until September 10
Carlos Mendoza Davis , starting September 10
Campeche
Fernando Ortega Bernés , until September 15
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas , starting September 16
Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello
Chihuahua: César Horacio Duarte Jáquez
Coahuila: Rubén Moreira Valdez, Colima: Mario Anguiano Moreno, Durango: Jorge Herrera Caldera Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez, Guerrero Rogelio Ortega Martínez, Interim governor, until October 27 Héctor Astudillo Flores , since October 27 Hidalgo: Francisco Olvera Ruiz Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval State of Mexico: Eruviel Ávila Villegas Michoacán Salvador Jara Guerrero , Substitute governor until September 30 Silvano Aureoles Conejo , starting October 1 Morelos: Graco Ramírez . Nayarit: Roberto Sandoval Castañeda Nuevo León Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz , until October 4 Jaime Rodríguez Calderón ("El Bronco"), Independent, starting October 4 Oaxaca: Gabino Cué Monteagudo Puebla: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, Querétaro: José Calzada, Quintana Roo: Roberto Borge Angulo, San Luis Potosí Fernando Toranzo Fernández , until September 25 Juan Manuel Carreras , since September 26 Sinaloa: Mario López Valdez, Sonora Guillermo Padrés Elías , until September 12 Claudia Pavlovich Arellano , starting September 13 Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez Tamaulipas: Egidio Torre Cantú, Tlaxcala: Mariano González Zarur Veracruz: Javier Duarte de Ochoa Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello Zacatecas: Miguel Alonso Reyes Head of Government of the Federal District: Miguel Ángel Mancera, Independent
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 or its equivalent to approximately 620 million dollars. No
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.
November
November 26 – 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic: The first three cases of Zika fever are reported in Mexico.
