This is a list of events that happened in 2018 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels. Incumbents President President Enrique Peña Nieto Institutional Revolutionary Party , until November 30 Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) , starting December 1 Cabinet Governors Aguascalientes: Martín Orozco Sandoval Baja California: Francisco Vega de Lamadrid Baja California Sur: Carlos Mendoza Davis Campeche: Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas Chiapas: Manuel Velasco Coello , until December 7 Rutilio Escandón , starting December 8 Chihuahua: Javier Corral Jurado Coahuila: Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís Colima: José Ignacio Peralta Distrito Federal / Mexico City: Miguel Ángel Mancera, Independent, until March 29, 2018 José Ramón Amieva, March 29, 2018 – December 4, 2018 Claudia Sheinbaum , starting December 5, 2018 Durango: José Rosas Aispuro Guanajuato: Miguel Márquez Márquez, until September 25 Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo , starting September 26 Guerrero: Héctor Astudillo Flores Hidalgo: Omar Fayad Jalisco: Aristóteles Sandoval, until December 5 Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, Independent, starting December 6 México (state): Alfredo del Mazo Maza Michoacán: Silvano Aureoles Conejo Morelos: Graco Ramírez , until October 1 Cuauhtémoc Blanco, , starting October 1 Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García Nuevo León Manuel Florentino González Flores, Interim governor , January 1 to July 2 Jaime Rodríguez Calderón (El Bronco"), Independent, starting July 2 Oaxaca: Alejandro Murat Hinojosa Puebla: José Antonio Gali Fayad , until December 13, 2018 Martha Érika Alonso , December 14 – December 24 (died in office) Jesús Rodríguez Almeida , Interim governor starting December 24 Querétaro: Francisco Domínguez Servién Quintana Roo: Carlos Joaquín González San Luis Potosí: Juan Manuel Carreras Sinaloa: Quirino Ordaz Coppel Sonora: Claudia Pavlovich Arellano Tabasco: Arturo Núñez Jiménez, until December 31 Tamaulipas: Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca Tlaxcala: Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez Veracruz: Miguel Ángel Yunes, until November 30 Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, starting December 1 Yucatán: Rolando Zapata Bello, until September 30 Mauricio Vila Dosal , starting October 1 Zacatecas: Alejandro Tello Cristerna Events January through March January 23 — Marco Antonio Sanchez Flores, a student at Prepa 8 in Mexico City, is detained by the Secretaria de Seguridad Publica and the Policia Auxiliar. Several hours later, he was released in Melchor Ocampo, State of Mexico. Months later, the detention is unexplained. February 16 — A helicopter of the SEDENA crashes, leaving 14 dead. The helicopter, which was carrying the Secretary of the Interior, Alfonso