2002 in Mexico

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Events in the year 2002 in Mexico.

Incumbents

Events

• January 23 – La Espuela Coal Mine disaster caused the death of 13 miners
• February 28 – The El Heraldo de Mexico Awards took place.
• March 18 – The Monterrey Consensus from the International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Nuevo Leon.
• September 20 – Hurricane Isidore (category 3) reaches the Yucatán Peninsula
• October 25 – Hurricane Kenna (category 5) reaches Puerto Vallarta
• October 30 – Banco Azteca begins operations
• November 10 – The ITU World Triathlon Series take place in Cancún.

Awards

Popular culture

• March 3 – Beginning of the reality show Big Brother
• May 15 – The Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2002 take place in Mexico City
• June 30 – The reality show La Academia begins.
• July 4 – The TV y Novelas Awards take place in Mexico City.

Births

• February 5 – Paulina Villarreal, drummer

Deaths

• January 3 – Juan García Esquivel (84), musician
• February 10 – Ramón Arellano Félix (37), drug lord
• April 8 – María Félix, 88, Mexican actress (b. April 8, 1914)
• October 11 – Emilio García Riera, 70, actor, writer and cinema critic (b. 1931)
• October 19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo (100), photographer
• November 6 – Alfonso Martínez Domínguez (80), politician
• November 21 – Arturo Guzmán Decena
• December 2 – Ivan Illich, Austrian Catholic priest and philosopher who co-founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación in Cuernavaca (b. 1926).

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