2014 in Mexico

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The following lists events from the year 2014 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto

Events

February

• February 22 – Alpine skier Hubertus von Hohenlohe-Langenburg sets the record for the longest span of competing at the Winter Olympic Games, at 30 years.^[1]

March

• March 2–9 – The 2014 Pan American Ice Hockey Tournament take place in Mexico City.

April

• April 13 – 36 people are killed after the bus in which they were travelling crashed in Acayucan, Veracruz.
• April 18 – A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits near Petatlán, Guerrero.^[2][3]

May

• May 12 – Galindo Mellado Cruz, one of the founding members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, and four other armed men are killed in a shootout with Mexican security forces after they raided Cruz's hideout in the city of Reynosa.

September

• September 2 – Plans for a new Mexico City international airport are announced at the President's State of the Union Address.
• September 14 – Hurricane Odile reaches Category 4 strength as it nears Mexico's Baja California coast.
• September 19 – The biographical film Cantinflas, about the Mexican actor of the same name, is released in Mexico.
• September 26 – 6 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa are killed and 43 more disappear after a protest and a confrontation with Iguala, Guerrero police officers.^[4]

October

• October 4 – A mass grave is found outside Iguala, Guerrero, southern Mexico, during the search of the students from Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa.^[5]
• October 25 – Nuestra Belleza México 2014 takes place.

November

• November 4 – Mexican Federal Police arrest a mayor and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the kidnapping of 43 students in Iguala, Guerrero.
• November 7 – Parents of Mexico's missing students say authorities found 6 bags containing unidentified corpses; investigations are underway to determine if they are of the missing students. Three people confess their involvement in the massacre.
• November 11 – A mob angry at the kidnapping and murder of 43 students torches the regional headquarters of Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and briefly holds a police commander hostage.
• November 12 – Protesters attack the State Congress building in Guerrero setting alight five vehicles.
• November 17 – Former Beltrán Leyva Cartel leader Alfredo Beltrán Leyva is extradited to the United States from Mexico, facing drug trafficking and money laundering offences.
• November 20 – Thousands of protestors gather in Mexico City for a national rally in memory of the 43 missing students. Demonstrators have also called for a nationwide strike.
• November 26 – Mexico's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) founder Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigns amid internal political crisis resulting from the disappearance of the 43 students in September.

Deaths

• January 26 – José Emilio Pacheco

References

1. Zaccardi, Nick. "Prince Hubertus von Hohenlohe of Mexico will be second oldest Winter Olympian ever". NBC Olympic Talk. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
2. (USGS)
4. Gorton, Thomas (6 October 2014). "Mayor accused as 43 student protesters go missing in Mexico". Dazed. Retrieved 24 October 2014.

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