2011 in Mexico - Events

Events

  • 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.
  • January 25 – Gunmen open fire on a crowd at a soccer game in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people.
  • 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.
  • February 13 – Unidentified gunmen kill eight people in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl part of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.
  • February 15 – Two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are shot while travelling between Monterrey and Mexico City with one officer dying.
  • February 20 – Mexican Drug War: 53 people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
  • March 1 – 17 bodies are found in clandestine graves in Mexico's Guerrero state.
  • April 6 – 2011 Tamaulipas massacre: At least 177 bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • August 25 - 2011 Monterrey casino attack: more than 50 people are killed in an attack on a casino in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico.
  • August 30 - The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.
  • November 13 – State elections in Michoacán.

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