2006 in Mexico

=Arts and entertainment=

Film

* "Una película de huevos"
* "Efectos secundarios" — September 1
* "Pretendiendo"
* "Pan's Labyrinth" — October 1
* "Así del precipicio"
* "Cansada de besar sapos" — December

Telenovelas

* "Heridas de amor"
* "La fea más bella"
* "Código postal" — May 22

Deaths

* January 1 – Mapita Cortés, 75, Puerto Rican-born actress of the cinema of Mexico
* January 13 – Raúl Anguiano, 90, painter and muralist, heart failure.
* February 10 – Juan Soriano, 85, painter and sculptor.
* February 12 – Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, entrepreneur and co-founder of the National Action Party.
* March 7 – Ludwik Margules, 72, theatre director, cancer. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/03/09/a05n1cul.php]
* March 29 – Salvador Elizondo, 73, writer. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/03/30/a04n1cul.php]
* April 5 – Armando Labra, 62, economist. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/04/06/022n1pol.php]
* April 20 – Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, film director. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/344203.html]
* May 22 – Lilia Prado, 78, actress, multiple organ failure. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/350849.html]
* May 23 – Ángel Fernández, 80, sports broadcaster, renal failure. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/350861.html]
* July 10 – Blanca Torres, 78, actress, thromboembolia.
* August 4 – Julio Galán, 47, painter
* October 9 – Mario Moya Palencia, 73, politician, heart attack.
* October 24 – Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, writer, lung cancer. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/10/25/a06n1cul.php]
* November 1 – Daniel García "Huracán Ramírez", 80, wrestler, heart attack. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/deportes/85955.html]
* November 6 – Miguel Aceves Mejía, 90, singer, bronchitis. [http://www.prensamexicana.com/news.php?nid=7620&clave=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A13%3A%22miguel+aceves%22%3B%7D]
* November 19 – Francisco Quirós Hermosillo, General. Cancer. [http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/11/20/index.php?section=politica&article=019n1pol]
* November 23 – Jesús Blancornelas, 70, journalist, cancer. [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/389751.html]

Disasters

*February 19 - Pasta de Conchos mine disaster

Foreign affairs

*Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers incident.

Politics

* 2006 Mexican elections
* November 10 — The government of Mexico City approves a law on civil unions, becoming the first local government to allow same sex unions in Mexico.
* Riots in Oaxaca