2015 in Mexico

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The following lists events from the year 2015 in Mexico.

Incumbents

• President: Enrique Peña Nieto

Events

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.^[1]
• February 28: Mexican security forces arrest drug lord Servando Gómez Martínez in Morelia, Michoacán.^[2]

June

• June 5: Legislative elections take place to elect the 63rd Congress of the Union.^[3]

Deaths

• January 7: Julio Scherer García, 88, journalist.^[4]
• February 8: Mario Vázquez Raña, Mexican businessman (b. 1932)
• February 16: Lorena Rojas, 44, actress.^[5]
• March 19: Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, architect
• December 1: Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, diplomat, lawyer and politician; Governor of Guerrero (1975)^[6]

References

1. "Mexico train, bus crash kills at least 16".
2. "Mexican police capture top cartel capo 'La Tuta' Gomez".
3. "Calendario electoral 2015" (PDF). INE. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
4. "Influential Mexican Journalist Julio Scherer Garcia, Dead At 88". NBC News. 7 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
5. "Lorena Rojas dies: Actress loses battle to cancer at 44".
6. "Murió en Taxco el ex gobernador Xavier Olea Muñoz, a los 92 años". Diario de Guerrero. 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2015-12-28.

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