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2016 in Mexico

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2016 in Mexico

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1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Mexico.

Contents

Incumbents

  • President: Enrique Peña Nieto

    • January

  • Gunmen shot and killed Temixco mayor Gisela Mota Ocampo at her home on 2 January, the day after she was elected. Police shot and killed several suspects and arrested several more who are suspected of involvement in organized crime.
  • Mexican police arrested Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán on 8 January. He had been on the run since his second escape from prison in July 2015.

    • April

  • On 20 April, at least 24 people were killed, 136 others injured, following a blast at the major Clorados 3 petrochemical plant of Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo. The plant is run by Mexichem under agreement with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the national petrochemical company, in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on the country's southern Gulf of Mexico coast. Pemex had an earlier fire at the same facility in February 2016 that killed one worker; also that month, an offshore Pemex Gulf platform fire killed two and injured eight.

    • Deaths

  • January 7: Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe. Politician and union leader.
  • July 17: Rafael Aguilar Talamantes. Founding politician of the Cardenista Front of National Reconstruction (PFCRN) and Federal Elections of Mexico 1994 presidential candidate in 1994.
  • August 28: Juan Gabriel, 56, Singer and composer originally from Michoacán, (b. 1950).

    • February

  • February 29-March 6 - 2016 Monterrey Open

    • April

  • April 9–15 - 2016 IIHF World Championship Division II Group B in Mexico City

    • References

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