2006 in Mexico

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See also:	Other events of 2006; List of years in Mexico

This is a list of events that happened in 2006 in Mexico.

Incumbents

The Broad Progressive Front is founded
The Garros Galería is established.
The Televisa Law is approved.
The Biosphere Reserve of the Sierra of Huautla is declared by the UNESCO in Morelos.[1]
The Biosphere Reserve of Huatulco is declared by the UNESCO in Oaxaca.
January: The Other Campaign
January 25: Juana Barraza is apprehended.
February 4: Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident.
February 19: Pasta de Conchos mine disaster
March: Santiago Mexquititlán raid
April 10: 2006 Mexico DC-9 drug bust
April 17: Maltrata bus crash
May: Jojutla crater discovered on Mars by astronomer Andres Eloy Martínez Rojas.[2]
May 3: 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco
May 27: Eutelsat 113 West A is launched.
June 17: Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca
June 27: Ángel Albino Corzo International Airport inaugurated.
June 28: Miss Latin America 2006 held in Riviera Maya.
September 2: Nuestra Belleza México 2006
September 16: the Faro del Comercio is re-inaugurated.
November 10: The government of Mexico City approves a law on civil unions, becoming the first local government to allow same sex unions in Mexico.
December 11: Beginning of the Mexican Drug War

January 1 – Mapita Cortés, 75, Puerto Rican -born actress of the cinema of Mexico
January 13 – Raúl Anguiano, 90, painter and muralist, heart failure.
February 10 – Juan Soriano, 85, painter and sculptor.
February 12 – Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, entrepreneur and co-founder of the National Action Party.
March 7 – Ludwik Margules, 72, theatre director, cancer.
March 29 – Salvador Elizondo, 73, writer.
April 5 – Armando Labra, 62, economist.
April 20 – Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, film director.
April 30 – Beatriz Sheridan, 71, actress and director, heart attack.
May 4 – Valentin Trujillo, 55, actor, heart attack.
May 22 – Lilia Prado, 78, actress, multiple organ failure.
May 23 – Ángel Fernández, 80, sports broadcaster, renal failure.
July 10 – Blanca Torres, 78, actress, thromboembolic.
August 4 – Julio Galán, 47, painter
October 9 – Mario Moya Palencia, 73, politician, heart attack.
October 24 – Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, writer, lung cancer.
November 1 – Daniel García "Huracán Ramírez", 80, wrestler, heart attack.
November 6 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, singer, bronchitis.
November 19 – Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, General. Cancer.
November 23 – Jesús Blancornelas, 70, journalist, cancer.

"Sierra de Huautla". UNESCO Ecological Sciences for Sustainable Development. July 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
"¿Sabías qué...? - Tierra, Jojutla y Campo" [Did you know...? - Earth, Jojutla, and Fields] (in Spanish). Agencia Espacial Mexicana. October 18, 2017. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved March 18, 2019.

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