2003 in Mexico
Events in the year 2003 in Mexico.Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Vicente Fox
- Interior Secretary :
- Secretary of Foreign Affairs :
- Communications Secretary :
- Education Secretary :
- Secretary of Defense :
- Secretary of Navy:
- Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare:
- Secretary of Welfare:
- Secretary of Public Education:
- Tourism Secretary :
- Secretary of the Environment :
- Secretary of Health :
Supreme Court
- President of the Supreme Court:
Governors
- Aguascalientes:
- Baja California:
- Baja California Sur:
- Campeche:
- Chiapas:
- Chihuahua:
- Coahuila:
- Colima:
- Durango:
- Guanajuato:
- Guerrero:
- Hidalgo:
- Jalisco:
- State of Mexico:
- Michoacán:
- Morelos:
- Nayarit:
- Nuevo León:
- Oaxaca:
- Puebla:
- Querétaro:
- Quintana Roo:
- San Luis Potosí:
- Sinaloa:
- Sonora:
- Tabasco:
- Tamaulipas:
- Tlaxcala:
- Veracruz:
- Yucatán:
- Zacatecas:
Events
- Fahrenheit has its first issue published.
- The Chiapas Bridge is finished with being constructed.
- The México Posible party is founded and dissolved.
- January 21: 2003 Colima earthquake.
- March 13: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas is created.
- June 2: The Escuela Preparatoria Tlalpan II "Otilio Montaño" is inaugurated.
- July 5: The National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples goes into effect.
- July 6: 2003 Mexican legislative election
- September: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2003 in Cancun.
- September 5: Nuestra Belleza México 2003.
- September 28: Optibus starts operations.
- November 15: Miss Latin America 2004 held in Cancun.
- November 27: the Monterrey Arena is opened.
- December 9 – 11: The United Nations Convention against Corruption is opened for signing in Mérida, Yucatán.
- December 22: Counter-terrorism base Ixtoc-Alfa is founded by the Mexican Navy.
Hurricanes
- June 26 – 27: Tropical Storm Carlos
- June 29 – July 2: Tropical Storm Bill
- July 8 – 17: Hurricane Claudette
- August 14 – 17: Hurricane Erika
- August 22 – 27: Hurricane Ignacio
- September 8 – 24: Hurricane Marty
- October 1 – 6: Tropical Storm Larry
Sport
- Primera División de México Clausura 2003
- Primera División de México Apertura 2003
- Mexico win the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup
- 2003 Centrobasket held in Culiacán
- 2003 Centrobasket Women
- 2003 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
- 2003 Gran Premio Telmex-Gigante
- 2003 MasterCard Truck Series season
- 2003 Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix
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- 2003 IIHF World U18 Championship Division III co-hosted with Bosnia
- 2003 Men's NORCECA Volleyball Championship Culiacan, Sinaloa
- 2003 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup Saltillo, Coahuila
- 2003 Central American and Caribbean Cross Country Championships
- Mexico at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 2003 Pan American Race Walking Cup from San Diego, California, United States to Tijuana, Baja California.
- C.F. Mérida founded.
- Tijuana Dragons founded.
- Monterrey Fury founded.
Film
- List of Mexican films of 2003
Births
- January 16 – Adriana Hernández, rhythmic gymnast
- September 18 – Ana Galindo, rhythmic gymnast
Deaths
- February 11: Socorro Avelar, actress
- June 10: Alfredo Guati Rojo watercolor artist
- November 6: Eduardo Palomo, actor