Contents 1 Arts and entertainment 1.1 Film 1.2 Telenovelas 2 Deaths 3 Disasters 4 Foreign affairs 5 Politics

Arts and entertainment

Film

• March 29 – The XLVII edition of the Ariel Award by the Mexican Academy of Film takes place at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City
• November 4 – La mujer de mi hermano

Telenovelas

• July 18 – Amor en custodia on TV Azteca
• July 18 – La esposa virgen on Televisa
• September 26 – El amor no tiene precio on Televisa
• October 3 – Machos on TV Azteca

Deaths

• January 5 – Eduardo Hay (89), International Olympic Committee
• January 14 – Ofelia Guilmain (83), Spanish-born film and stage actress
• January 22 – Consuelo Velázquez (88), songwriter and lyricist, and author of the enduring song Bésame mucho
• February 24 – Gustavo Vázquez Montes (42), incumbent governor of Colima
• March 27 – Rigo Tovar (58), popular singer and composer
• April 10 – Raúl Gibb Guerrero (53), newspaper editor
• April 16 – Guadalupe García Escamilla (39), journalist
• April 16 – Jaime Fernández (67), actor
• April 29 – Mariana Levy (39), actress
• May 5 – Édgar Ponce (30), actor
• June 5 – Oscar Morelli (59), actor
• June 5 – Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (55), scholar, diplomat and politician
• June 15 – Alejandro Domínguez (52), chief of police of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
• July 2 – Martin Sanchez (26), boxer
• July 6 – Marga López (81), Argentine-born screen and television actress
• August 6 – Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (86), trade union leader
• September 21 – Ramón Martín Huerta (48), minister of public security of the federal government
• November 6 – Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela (87), lawyer and professor

Disasters

• July 18 – Hurricane Emily (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula
• October 4 – Hurricane Stan (category 1) hits the state of Veracruz
• October 21 – Hurricane Wilma (category 4) hits the Yucatán Peninsula

Foreign affairs

• March 23 – The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is signed by the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States
• September 8 – The Mexican Army is received with honors at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas in response to Hurricane Katrina
• November 10 – Beginning of the 2005 Mexico and Venezuela diplomatic crisis
• November 4 – Start of the Mar del Plata Summit of the Americas
• December 9 – the Mesoamerican Energy Integration Program was signed between by Mexico, Colombia, Dominican Republic and Central America

Politics

• March 3 – Víctor Trujillo (aka Brozo) presents videos showing proof of corruption by government officials of the Federal District, initiating the scandal labeled videoescándalos
• April 7 – The Chamber of Deputies votes to lift Andrés Manuel López Obrador's constitutional immunity against prosecution (desafuero)