2000 in Mexico
The following lists events that happened during 2000 in Mexico.
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Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Ernesto Zedillo (until November 30), Vicente Fox (starting December 1)[1]
- Interior Secretary (SEGOB):
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE):
- Communications Secretary (SCT):
- Education Secretary (SEP):
- Secretary of Defense (SEDENA):
- Secretary of Navy:
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
- Secretary of Welfare:
- Secretary of Public Education:
- Tourism Secretary (SECTUR):
- Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT):
- Secretary of Health (SALUD):
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Baja California:
- Baja California Sur:
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
Events
- The National Autonomous University of Mexico, which is closed since April 1999, becomes the scene of a mass rally to protest against rising tuition fees and to require student participation in the restructuring of Latin America's main university.
- February 23: Musician Carlos Santana receives 8 Grammy Awards, achieving the same record that Michael Jackson, established in 1983.
- April 15: Pope John Paul II names Eduardo Patino and Hipolito Reyes Larios as bishops of the newly created dioceses of Córdoba and Orizaba in the state of Veracruz.
- July 2: 2000 Mexican general election.[2]
- December: Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from the area near Popocateptl by the government, based on the warnings of scientists. The volcano then made its largest display in 1,200 years.[3][4]
Popular culture
Notable births
Notable deaths
- May 9 — Carmen Romano de Lopez, First Lady of Mexico (1976-1982) (b. 1926)
- September 9: Carlos Castillo Peraza. Politician and journalist.
- September 17: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado, politician and economist, governor of Guerrero 1981-1987, heart attack (b. 1926)[5]
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References
- Betancourt Cid (2012), p. 285
- Betancourt Cid (2012), p. 280
- "Residents on slopes of Popocatepetl Volcano heed evacuation notice". US Geological Survey. 2000. Retrieved 2012-04-20.
- Julio Miranda, P.; Delgado Granados, H. (2003). "Fast hazard evaluation, employing digital photogrammetry on Popocatépetl glaciers", Mexico" (PDF). Geofísica Internacional. 42 (2): 275–283. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2012-04-21.
- "Murio el ex gobernador Alejandro Cervantes" [Former governor Alejandro Cervantes dies], El Universal (in Spanish), Mexico City, September 18, 2000, retrieved May 30, 2019
Bibliography
- Betancourt Cid, Carlos (2012). Martínez Ocampo, Lourdes (ed.). México contemporáneo. Cronología (1968-2000) (PDF) (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de las Revoluciones de México. ISBN 978-607-7916-73-4. Retrieved 21 January 2017.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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