2024 in Mexico explained

This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2024. The list also contains names of the incumbents at federal and state levels and cultural and entertainment activities of the year.

Incumbents

See also: Cabinet of Mexico.

President and cabinet! Office! Image! Name! Tenure / Current length

President		Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Secretariat of the Interior		Luisa María Alcalde Luján
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs		Alicia Bárcena Ibarra
Treasury		Rogelio Ramírez de la O
Economy		Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez
Environment		María Luisa Albores
Tourism		Miguel Torruco Marqués
Civil Service		Roberto Salcedo Aquino
Health		Jorge Alcocer Varela
Development		Román Meyer Falcón
Welfare		Ariadna Montiel Reyes
Culture		Alejandra Frausto Guerrero
Defense		Luis Cresencio Sandoval
Navy		José Rafael Ojeda Durán
Security		Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez
Attorney General		Alejandro Gertz Manero

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice.

• President of the Supreme Court: Norma Lucía Piña Hernández

Governors

See also: List of current state governors in Mexico and National Governors Conference (Mexico).

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

See main article: LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

President of the Chamber of Deputies

• Marcela Guerra Castillo

Events

January

• 19 January – José Alberto García Vilano, the leader of the Gulf Cartel, is arrested in Monterrey.^[1]
• 30 January:
  • A bus collides with a truck on a highway in Elota, Sinaloa, killing 19 people and injuring 18 others.^[2]
  • Four people are killed and 15 others are rescued after a boat capsizes while travelling between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo.^[3]

February

• 5 February – Four taxi and bus drivers are killed during coordinated shootings in Chilpancingo.^[4]
• 26 February – Illegal loggers kill three forest rangers in the foothills of the Iztaccihuatl volcano in Puebla State.^[5]
• 27 February – A tractor-trailer and a pick-up truck collide in San Luis Potosi, killing 10 people.^[6]

March

• 1 March – Four soldiers are killed by a improvised explosive device in a trap near Aguililla, Michoacán. The soldiers were inspecting a camp, likely used by cartel members, when they stepped on an anti-personnel mine set in the underbrush.^[7]
• 18 March – Three officers of the Michoacan Civil Guard are killed in an attack on a highway between Patzcuaro and Uruapan.^[8]
• 27 March – At least four people are killed in wildfires across the State of Mexico.^[9]

April

• 5 April – After local police arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas at its embassy in Quito in violation of Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Mexico suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador.^[10]
• 8 April:
  • A total solar eclipse occurs over the states of Sinaloa, Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua, Colima, and Nayarit, the first total solar eclipse visible from Mexico since 1991.^[11]
  • The headquarters of the state government of Guerrero in Chilpancingo is set on fire by demonstrators protesting the Iguala mass kidnapping.^[12]
• 27 April – Five people are found dead inside a house in Oaxaca City after consuming a poisoned substance during a Santeria ritual.^[13]
• 28 April – Eighteen people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bus crashes on a highway in Malinalco, Mexico State.^[14]

May

• 8 May – Rolling blackouts affect several cities in Mexico amidst an ongoing heatwave.^[15]
• 11 May – Eight people are killed in a mass shooting in Huitzilac, Morelos.^{[16] [17]}
• 14 May – Eleven people are killed in two mass shootings in and around Chicomuselo, Chiapas.^[18]
• 15 May – El Califa de León, located in Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, becomes the first Mexican taco stand to receive a Michelin star.^[19]
• 16 May – A mass shooting at a campaign rally in La Concordia, Chiapas kills six people, including mayoral candidate Lucero López Maza, and injures two others.^[20]
• 22 May – San Pedro Garza García stage collapse: Nine people are killed and 121 others are injured in a stage collapse in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon.^[21]
• 24 May – Dozens of people are killed across Mexico in a deadly heatwave, with temperatures as high as 45 °C (113 °F) recorded.^[22]
• 28 May – South Africa's genocide case against Israel: Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of South Africa.^[23]

June

• 2 June:
  • 2024 Mexican general election

Claudia Sheinbaum is elected as the first female president of Mexico.^[24] The ruling party Morena party wins a supermajority in the Chamber of Deputies but not in the Senate, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the Constitution.^[25]

• • 2024 Mexican local elections^[26]
• 5 June:
  • US President Joe Biden institutes a broad asylum ban on migrants illegally crossing the Mexico–United States border, with actions to deport or turn people back to Mexico, with exceptions for unaccompanied children, people with serious medical or safety threats, and victims of trafficking.^[27]
  • The World Health Organization confirms the first human fatality from the H5N2 avian influenza virus following the death of a 59-year old man in Mexico City in April.^[28]
• 7 June – RICH nightclub railing collapse: A third-story railing outside of the RICH nightclub in San Luis Potosí collapses, causing several young concertgoers to a Kevin Moreno concert to fall over 12 meters (39.4 feet), killing two and injuring 15.^[29]
• 8–9 June – Around 4,200 people are displaced after armed gangs attack the town of Tila in Chiapas.^[30]
• 9 June – Nine people are injured in an explosion in Acapulco.^[31]
• 12 June – The American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit in federal court against the Biden administration for US President Joe Biden's new presidential directive which limits migrants seeking asylum at the Mexico–United States border.^[32]
• 17 June – Salvador Villalva Flores, the newly-elected mayor of Copala, Guerrero, is shot dead aboard a bus in San Pedro las Playas.^[33]
• 18 June – The United States Department of Agriculture announces a temporary pause to any new imports of mangoes and avocados from Michoacán after an incident that reportedly causes security concerns for its safety inspectors on the ground.^[34]
• 20 June:
  • Three people are reported dead in Nuevo León due to Tropical Storm Alberto.^[35]
  • Two people are killed during protests against suspected water contamination by a pork processing plant in San Antonio Limon, Veracruz.^[36]
• 21 June – United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen announces sanctions against eight members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization.^[37]

July

• 1 July – The bodies of 19 people are found in the vicinity of an abandoned dump truck in La Concordia, Chiapas.^[38]
• 5 July – Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula after killing twelve people in the Caribbean.^[39]
• 8 July – Minerva Pérez, the head of the fishing industry chamber of Baja California, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Ensenada.^[40]
• 13 to 21 July – 2024 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup^[41]
• 17 July – Six members of two families are shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Yuriria, Guanajuato.^[42]
• 23 July – Six people are killed in an explosion at a tequila factory owned by Jose Cuervo in Tequila, Jalisco.^[43]
• 24 July – Guatemalan authorities announce the arrival of 600 refugees from Mexico fleeing drug-related violence in Chiapas.^[44]
• 25 July – Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is arrested along with Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of imprisoned cartel co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, by US authorities in El Paso, Texas.^[45]

August

• 2 August:
  • Four men, including a police officer, are found shot to death near Cancún, Quintana Roo.^[46]
  • The Mexican Army confirms the first deaths of its personnel in drone strikes launched by drug cartels in Michoacan.^[47]
• 4 August – Journalist Alejandro Martínez is shot dead in Celaya.^[48]
• 20 August – Workers in federal courts nationwide go on strike in protest over plans by President Lopez Obrador to have judges elected to office and reduce merit qualifications for judicial employees.^[49]

Scheduled events

• 1 October – The inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum as the next President of Mexico will be held on that date for the first time since a change in the electoral law in 2014 moved the date from 1 December.^[50]

Art and entertainment

• List of Mexican films of 2024
• List of 2024 box office number-one films in Mexico
• List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

January

• 4 January – Rosie Reyes, 84, Olympic tennis player (1968).^[51]
• 5 January –
  • Jorge Aguilar Mora, 77, poet and writer, winner of Xavier Villaurrutia Award (2015).^[52]
  • Carlos Bremer, 63, businessman and philanthropist.^[53]
• 6 January – Amparo Rubín, singer and lyricist.^[54]
• 8 January –
  • Adan Canto, 42, actor (Designated Survivor, The Cleaning Lady).^[55]
  • Héctor Murguía Lardizábal, 70, politician, MP (1994–2012) and mayor of Ciudad Juárez (2004–2007, 2010–2013).^[56]
• 10 January – Sergio García Ramírez, 85, jurist and politician, attorney general (1982–1988) and secretary of labor and social welfare (1981–1982), president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2004–2007).^[57]
• 11 January – Agustín Téllez Cruces, 105, politician, interim governor of Guanajuato (1984–1985), justice (1974–1982) and president (1977–1982) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.^[58]
• 13 January – Ernesto Martens, 90, chemical engineer, secretary of energy (2000–2003).^[59]
• 16 January – José Agustín, 79, novelist (La tumba, De perfil, Ciudades desiertas), short-story writer, and essayist.^[60]
• 17 January – Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez, 69, politician and engineer, senator (2000–2006) and secretary of social development (1993–1998).^[61]
• 21 January – Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles, 71, politician, secretary of energy (1995–1997) and ambassador to the United States (1997–2000).^[62]
• 29 January – Héctor Sanabria, 78, football player (UNAM Pumas, national team) and manager (Toluca).^[63]

February

• 2 February –
  • Francisco Jara, 82, footballer (Guadalajara, national team).^[64]
  • Luis Morales Reyes, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tacámbaro (1979–1985) and Torreón (1990–1999) and archbishop of San Luis Potosí (1999–2012).^[65]
• 3 February – Helena Rojo, 79, actress (The House in the South, The Great Adventure of Zorro, Misterio) and model.^[66]
• 5 February – Horacio Sánchez Unzueta, 74, politician, lawyer and ambassador, governor of San Luis Potosí (1993–1997) and deputy (1991–1992).^[67]
• 9 February – Renata Flores, 74, actress (Rosa salvaje, La usurpadora, Amores verdaderos) and rock singer.
• 14 February –
  • Diego Chávez, 28, footballer (Veracruz, Mannucci).^[68]
  • Sasha Montenegro, 78, actress (Rina, Una mujer marcada, Las vías del amor).^[69]
• 19 February – Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, 68, economist, secretary of finance and public credit (2018–2019).^[70]

April

• 20 April – Lourdes Portillo, 80, filmmaker (The Devil Never Sleeps) and activist.^[71]

June

• 14 June – Nancy MacKenzie, 81, actress (The Simpsons).^[72]

See also

• Outline of Mexico
• Index of Mexico-related articles
• History of Mexico

External links

• Online calendar

Notes and References

1. News: 2024-01-19 . La Kena: Notorious Mexican cartel leader captured . 2024-01-19 . en-GB.
2. Web site: 2024-01-30 . At least 19 dead and 18 injured after bus collides with truck in northern Mexico . 2024-01-31 . AP News . en.
3. Web site: 2024-01-30 . Four Mexican tourists died after a boat capsized in the sea between Cancun and Isla Mujeres . 2024-01-31 . AP News . en.
4. Web site: 2024-02-05 . 4 bus and taxi drivers shot to death in violent southern Mexico city . 2024-02-07 . AP News . en.
5. Web site: February 27, 2024 . Suspected illegal loggers kill 3 forest rangers on patrol in a forest in central Mexico . .
6. Web site: February 25, 2024 . At least 10 people killed in road crash in north-central Mexico, officials say . 2024-02-25 . Associated Press.
7. Web site: 2024-03-01 . 4 soldiers killed in 'trap' in central Mexico, president says . 2024-03-02 . AP News . en.
8. Web site: 2024-03-19 . 3 police officers killed in an attack on western Mexico highway . 2024-03-19 . AP News . en.
9. Web site: March 27, 2024 . Forest fires spread in Mexico, at least four dead . .
10. News: 2024-04-06 . Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy . 2024-04-06 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
11. Web site: 2024-02-07 . Apr 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse in Mexico . 2024-02-07 . timeanddate.com . en.
12. Web site: 9 April 2024 . Protesters in southern Mexico set state government building afire and torch a dozen vehicles . 9 April 2024 . Associated Press . en.
13. Web site: May 2, 2024 . Police say 5 people died in Mexico from drinking a poison potion in a Santeria 'power' ritual . Associated Press.
14. Web site: April 28, 2024 . At least 18 dead, 32 injured in Mexico highway bus accident . Reuters.
15. News: Rodríguez Mega . Emiliano . Yoon . John . 2024-05-08 . Rolling Blackouts Hit Several Cities as Heat Wave Scorches Mexico . 2024-05-08 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
16. News: 2024-05-13 . Mass shooting causes deaths in crime-ridden township on southern edge of Mexico City, officials say . 2024-05-13 . Associated Press . en-US.
17. Web site: 2024-05-13 . 8 people killed in mass shooting "right in the center of town" near resort area in Mexico . 2024-05-18 . CBS News . en-US.
18. News: 2024-05-15 . 11 people die in shootings in small town in southern Mexico state of Chiapas, prosecutors say . 2024-05-16 . Associated Press . en-US.
19. Web site: The first Mexican taco stand to get a Michelin star is a tiny business where the heat makes the meat . Stevenson. Mark. . 2024-05-15. 2024-05-18.
20. Web site: Mayoral candidate and five others killed in shooting at campaign rally in Mexico . 2024-05-18 . The Guardian. May 17, 2024 .
21. Web site: 23 March 2024 . Stage collapse at a campaign rally in northern Mexico kills at least 9 people and injures 121 . 23 May 2024 . Associated Press . en.
22. Web site: Mexico: Heat wave kills several people, hotter days ahead – DW – 05/24/2024 . 2024-05-25 . dw.com . en.
23. Web site: Mexico seeks to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ . 2024-05-29 . Middle East Eye . en.
24. Web site: 2024-06-02 . Mexico elects Claudia Sheinbaum as its first female president . 2024-06-03 . AP News . en.
25. Web site: June 9, 2024 . Mexico ruling party wins lower house super-majority but falls short in Senate . .
26. News: Front-runner Claudia Sheinbaum poised to become Mexico's 1st woman president . 3 June 2024 . CBC . en.
27. Web site: June 5, 2024 . Biden imposes sweeping asylum ban at US-Mexico border . .
28. Web site: June 6, 2024 . Man who contracted H5N2 bird flu dies in Mexico, WHO says . Al Jazeera.
29. Web site: Portillo . Ligia . Video: Tres muertos y 15 heridos: caen al menos 12 metros cuando ingresaban a sala de conciertos . 2024-06-11 . www.reduno.com.bo . es.
30. Web site: June 11, 2024 . Over 4,000 residents flee a town in southern Mexico after armed gangs start shooting, burn homes . Associated Press.
31. Web site: June 11, 2024 . 9 people injured after explosion in main square of Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco . Associated Press.
32. Web site: June 12, 2024 . ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border . .
33. Web site: June 18, 2024 . A recently elected mayor is shot and killed in southern Mexico . Associated Press.
34. Web site: USDA pauses avocado, mango inspections in Mexican state due to security concerns . 2024-06-18 . ABC News . en.
35. Web site: Season's first named storm dumps heavy rains on Texas and Mexico killing 3 . 2024-06-20 . AP News . June 20, 2024 . en.
36. Web site: 2 people killed when police clash with locals protesting pork processing plant in Mexico . 2024-06-21 . AP News . June 21, 2024 . en.
37. News: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on new fentanyl sanctions. 2024-06-21. 2024-06-23. WBUR-FM.
38. Web site: Authorities find 19 bodies piled in a dump truck in a cartel-dominated area of southern Mexico . 2 July 2024 . Associated Press . July 2, 2024 . en.
39. Web site: 2024-07-05 . Beryl moves into the Gulf of Mexico after battering Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, takes aim at Texas . 2024-07-06 . AP News . en.
40. Web site: 2024-07-10 . Gunmen kill a Mexican fisheries leader who complained of drug cartel extortion and illegal fishing . 2024-07-10 . AP News . en.
41. Web site: Mexico will host the U17 Women's Basketball World Cup in 2024. 30 November 2022. 5 November 2023 . Archysport.
42. Web site: 2024-07-18 . Gunmen in Mexico kill 6 people, including a boy, as mass killings of families increase . 2024-07-18 . AP News . en.
43. Web site: 2024-07-25 . Death toll rises to 6 in explosion and fire at tequila factory in Mexico . 2024-07-25 . AP News . en.
44. Web site: 25 July 2024 . Authorities say 600 Mexicans have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence . Associated Press . 27 July 2024 . en.
45. Web site: 2024-07-26 . US: Two leaders of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel arrested in Texas . 2024-07-26 . DW News . en.
46. Web site: 2024-08-02 . Police find the bodies of 4 men, including a policeman, shot to death near resort outside Cancun . 2024-08-03 . AP News . en.
47. Web site: 2024-08-05 . Mexican army acknowledges some of its soldiers have been killed by cartel bomb-dropping drones . 2024-08-05 . AP News . en.
48. Web site: 2024-08-05 . Mexican journalist who covered one of the country's most dangerous crime beats has been killed . 2024-08-05 . AP News . en.
49. Web site: 2024-08-21 . Mexico federal court employees strike over judicial changes requiring that judges stand for election . 2024-08-21 . AP News . en.
50. Web site: Mexico election live results 2024: By the numbers . 3 June 2024 . 3 June 2024 . Al Jazeera.
51. Web site: 2024-01-05 . Vuela al cielo leyenda del deporte blanco mexicano . 2024-03-02 . Excélsior . es-MX.
52. Web site: MSN . 2024-03-02 . www.msn.com.
53. Web site: 2024-01-06 . Carlos Bremer murió hoy 5 de enero a los 63 años tras complicaciones de salud . 2024-03-02 . sdpnoticias . en.
54. Web site: Castillo . Por Adriana . 2024-01-06 . Muere Amparo Rubín, famosa cantautora mexicana que conquistó multitudes con Timbiriche . 2024-03-02 . infobae . es-ES.
55. Web site: 'The Cleaning Lady' Star Adan Canto Dies at 42. Strause. Jackie. The Hollywood Reporter. January 9, 2024. January 10, 2024.
56. Web site: 2024-01-08 . Falleció el político Héctor Teto Murguía . 2024-03-02 . Impacto Noticias . es.
57. Web site: Muere Sergio García Ramírez, jurista e investigador emérito de la UNAM . 2024-03-02 . El Universal . es.
58. Web site: 2024-01-11 . Fallece a los 105 años Agustín Téllez Cruces, ministro en retiro y exgobernador de Guanajuato . 2024-03-02 . Latin US . es-MX.
59. Web site: Fallece el empresario Ernesto Martens . 2024-03-02 . www.reforma.com . es.
60. Web site: Fallece el escritor José Agustín a los 79 años . 2024-03-02 . El Universal . es.
61. Web site: Tabasco . El Heraldo de . Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez, extitular de Sedesol, falleció a los 69 años . 2024-03-02 . El Heraldo de Tabasco Noticias Locales, Policiacas, sobre México, Tabasco y el Mundo . es.
62. Web site: Muere el economista Jesús Reyes Heroles González-Garza a los 71 años . 2024-03-02 . El Universal . es.
63. Web site: 2024-01-30 . Murió Héctor Sanabria, histórico jugador de Pumas que fue campeón de Liga MX . 2024-03-02 . Fox Sports . es.
64. Web site: 2024-03-02 . Rest in Peace Campeonísimo Francisco Jara . 2024-03-02 . www.chivasdecorazon.com.mx . es-mx.
65. Web site: Lutti nell'episcopato - L'Osservatore Romano . 2024-03-02 . www.osservatoreromano.va . it.
66. Web site: 2024-02-03 . Muere la actriz Helena Rojo a los años . 2024-03-02 . El Heraldo de México . es.
67. Web site: Muere exgobernador potosino y colaborador de precampaña de Xóchitl Gálvez, Horacio Sánchez Unzueta . 2024-03-02 . El Universal . es.
68. Web site: Liga MX: muere Diego Chávez, jugador de FC Juárez, en accidente automovilístico TUDN Liga MX TUDN . 2024-03-02 . www.tudn.com . es.
69. Web site: 2024-02-15 . Murió Sasha Montenegro: había sufrido un derrame cerebral . 2024-03-02 . TVyNovelas . es.
70. Web site: MX . Político . 2024-02-19 . Muere Carlos Urzúa, exsecretario de Hacienda de AMLO . 2024-03-02 . Político MX . es.
71. Web site: Fallece Lourdes Portillo, mexicana nominada al Óscar . Reforma . es-MX . 2024-04-21.
72. Web site: 2024-06-18 . Voice of Marge Simpson in Latin America, Nancy MacKenzie, dies . 2024-06-22 . BBC News . en-GB.