2024 in Mexico

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2024
in
Mexico

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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

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President and cabinet
Office Image Name Tenure / Current length
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01) - 1 October 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum 1 October 2024
Secretariat of the Interior Luisa María Alcalde Luján 19 June 2023
(16 months ago)
 (2023-06-19)
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs Alicia Bárcena Ibarra 3 July 2023
(16 months ago)
 (2023-07-03)
Treasury Rogelio Ramírez de la O 3 August 2021
(3 years ago)
 (2021-08-03)
Economy Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez 7 October 2022
(2 years ago)
 (2022-10-07)
Environment María Luisa Albores 2 September 2020
(4 years ago)
 (2020-09-02)
Tourism Miguel Torruco Marqués 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Civil Service Roberto Salcedo Aquino 21 June 2021
(3 years ago)
 (2021-06-21)
Health Jorge Alcocer Varela 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Development Román Meyer Falcón 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Welfare Ariadna Montiel Reyes 11 January 2022
(2 years ago)
 (2022-01-11)
Culture Alejandra Frausto Guerrero 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Navy José Rafael Ojeda Durán 1 December 2018
(5 years ago)
 (2018-12-01)
Security Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez 3 November 2020
(4 years ago)
 (2020-11-03)
Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero 18 January 2019
(5 years ago)
 (2019-01-18)

Supreme Court

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Governors

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LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

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President of the Senate

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President of the Chamber of Deputies

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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  • 1 October –
    • Claudia Sheinbaum is sworn in as the 66th President of Mexico.[67] She becomes the first president to be inaugurated on that date since a change in the electoral law in 2014 moved the date from 1 December.[68]
    • A truck carrying migrants is fired upon by soldiers near Huixtla, Chiapas, killing six passengers and injuring ten others.[69]
    • Four people are killed and two others are injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a drug rehabilitation center in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[70]
  • 2 October – President Sheinbaum issues an official apology for the killing of student protesters by soldiers in the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968.[71]
  • 3 October – Twelve people are killed in a series of attacks by suspected drug cartels in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[72]
  • 6 October – Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of Chilpancingo, is assassinated less than a week after taking office.[73]
  • 13 October – Five decapitated bodies are found along a road in Ojuelos, Jalisco.[74]
  • 16 October – A US federal court sentences Genaro García Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security under President Felipe Calderon, to 38 years' imprisonment for colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel in smuggling illegal drugs into the United States.[75]
  • 17 October – Unidentified gunmen open fire on the offices of the newspaper El Debate in Culiacan.[76]
  • 20 October – Marcelo Perez, a Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist working in Chiapas, is shot dead after celebrating Sunday mass in San Cristobal de las Casas.[77]
  • 21 October – Nineteen suspected gang members are killed in a shootout with soldiers outside Culiacan that leads to the arrest of a local leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.[78]
  • 24 October –
    • Sixteen people, including two responding police officers, are killed in a shootout between rival drug cartels in Guerrero State.[79]
    • Three police officers are injured in a car bombing in Acámbaro, Guanajuato State.[80]
  • 25 October – A bus overturns after colliding with a trailer that had been detached from a truck in Zacatecas, killing 24 people and injuring five others.[81]
  • 26 October – At least 16 pedestrians are injured in a car ramming in the cathedral square of Guadalajara by a suspect driving a stolen pickup who is arrested.[82]
  • 30 October –

November

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  • 1 November – A constitutional amendment banning judicial reviews to any constitutional revision passed by two-thirds majorities in Congress and two-thirds of state legislatures comes into effect.[86]
  • 2 November – Two Colombian migrants are shot dead by the National Guard near Tecate.[87]
  • 5 November – The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation rejects a petition to limit the scope of constitutional amendments regarding the election of judges to cover only justices of the Supreme Court.[88]
  • 7 November – Eleven people are found dead inside a pickup truck in Chilpancingo, while four others are found dead in a car in Acapulco.[89]
  • 9 November – A rear admiral in the Mexican Navy is shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Manzanillo, Colima.[90]

Art and entertainment

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Deaths

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January

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February

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April

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June

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October

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See also

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References

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  46. ^ "Police find the bodies of 4 men, including a policeman, shot to death near resort outside Cancun". AP News. August 2, 2024. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
  47. ^ "Mexican army acknowledges some of its soldiers have been killed by cartel bomb-dropping drones". AP News. August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  48. ^ "Mexican journalist who covered one of the country's most dangerous crime beats has been killed". AP News. August 5, 2024. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  49. ^ "Mexico federal court employees strike over judicial changes requiring that judges stand for election". AP News. August 21, 2024. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
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  64. ^ "Mexican authorities uncover 24 drug cartel surveillance cameras in city on the border with Arizona". AP News. September 28, 2024. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
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  66. ^ "Mexican schools have 6 months to ban junk food sales or face heavy fines". AP News. October 22, 2024. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
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  69. ^ "6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican army troops open fire". Associated Press. October 3, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
  70. ^ "Gunmen burst into a Mexican drug rehab center and kill 4 men and wound 2 others". Associated Press. October 2, 2024. Retrieved October 3, 2024.
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  72. ^ "12 people have been killed in coordinated attacks in violent Mexican city". Associated Press. October 4, 2024. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
  73. ^ "In Mexico, the mayor of a state capital has been killed less than 1 week after he took office". Associated Press. October 7, 2024. Retrieved October 7, 2024.
  74. ^ "Five beheaded bodies found next to road in Mexico's Jalisco". Al Jazeera. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
  75. ^ "Mexico's ex-security chief sentenced to over 38 years in US prison". France 24. October 16, 2024. Retrieved October 17, 2024.
  76. ^ "Mexican newspaper offices hit by gunfire in Sinaloa state capital". Associated Press. October 22, 2024. Retrieved October 22, 2024.
  77. ^ "Priest shot dead in southern Mexico after leaving Sunday service". Al Jazeera. Retrieved October 21, 2024.
  78. ^ "Shootout in Mexico's Sinaloa state kills 19, local cartel leader arrested". NBC News. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
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  81. ^ "Bus in Mexico crashes after colliding with trailer that detached from truck killing 24". Associated Press. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  82. ^ "A car rams into a crowd outside a cathedral in Mexico and injures 16". Associated Press. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  83. ^ "Majority of Mexican Supreme Court judges resign after judicial reforms". France 24. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  84. ^ "12 dead and 1 injured in explosion at steel plant in central Mexico". Associated Press. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  85. ^ "Tennis event canceled after players and coach are victims of a 'virtual' kidnapping in Mexico". Associated Press. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
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  87. ^ "Mexico's National Guard kills 2 Colombians and wounds 4 on a migrant smuggling route near the US". Associated Press. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  88. ^ "Mexico Supreme Court rejects last-ditch effort to limit judicial overhaul". Associated Press. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  89. ^ "Police find 11 bodies dumped by a highway in southern Mexico and 4 more in the resort of Acapulco". Associated Press. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
  90. ^ "Gunmen kill a navy rear admiral in Mexico, one of the highest-ranking officers slain in a decade". Associated Press. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
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  97. ^ "Muere Sergio García Ramírez, jurista e investigador emérito de la UNAM". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved March 2, 2024.
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  102. ^ "Muere el economista Jesús Reyes Heroles González-Garza a los 71 años". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  103. ^ "Murió Héctor Sanabria, histórico jugador de Pumas que fue campeón de Liga MX". Fox Sports (in Spanish). January 30, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
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  106. ^ "Muere la actriz Helena Rojo a los años". El Heraldo de México (in Spanish). February 3, 2024. Retrieved March 2, 2024.
  107. ^ "Muere exgobernador potosino y colaborador de precampaña de Xóchitl Gálvez, Horacio Sánchez Unzueta". El Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved March 2, 2024.
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  111. ^ "Fallece Lourdes Portillo, mexicana nominada al Óscar". Reforma (in Mexican Spanish). April 21, 2024.
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  113. ^ Muere Ifigenia Martínez, presidenta de la Cámara de Diputados y pionera de la izquierda (in Spanish)
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