This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2020.
Incumbents President and cabinet
President: Andres Manuel López Obrador, National Regeneration Movement MORENAMexico's López Obrador vows to end neo-liberalism in inauguration Financial Times, December 2, 2018
Interior: Olga Sánchez Cordero Foreign Affairs: Marcelo Ebrard Treasury: Arturo Herrera Economy: Graciela Márquez Colín Energy: Norma Rocío Nahle García Agriculture: Víctor Villalobos Labor: Luisa María Alcalde Luján Education: Esteban Moctezuma Communications: Javier Jiménez Espriú, until July 23 Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal, starting July 23, 2020 Environment: Víctor Manuel Toledo, until September 2 Maria Luisa Albores, starting September 2 Tourism: Miguel Torruco Marqués Civil Service: Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros Health: Jorge Alcocer Varela Development: Román Guillermo Meyer Welfare: María Luisa Albores, until September 2 Javier May Rodríguez, starting September 2 Culture: Alejandra Frausto Guerrero Defense: Luis Cresencio Sandoval Navy: José Rafael Ojeda Durán Security: Alfonso Durazo Montaño Attorney General: Alejandro Gertz Manero
Supreme Court
President of the Supreme Court: Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea (since January 2, 2019)
Governors
Aguascalientes: Martín Orozco Sandoval PAN Baja California: Jaime Bonilla MORENA Baja California Sur: Carlos Mendoza Davis PAN Campeche: Carlos Miguel Aysa González acting governor PRI Chiapas: Rutilio Escandón MORENA Chihuahua: Javier Corral Jurado PAN Coahuila: Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís PRI Colima: José Ignacio Peralta PRI Durango: José Rosas Aispuro PAN Guanajuato: Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo PAN Guerrero: Héctor Astudillo Flores PRI Hidalgo: Omar Fayad PRI Jalisco: Enrique Alfaro Ramírez MC Mexico City: Claudia Sheinbaum MORENA Mexico (state): Alfredo del Mazo Maza PRI Michoacán: Silvano Aureoles Conejo PRD Morelos: Cuauhtémoc Blanco PES Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García PAN Nuevo León: Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, Independent Oaxaca: Alejandro Murat Hinojosa PRI Puebla: Miguel Barbosa Huerta MORENAMexican ruling party wins two state governorships in elections Reuters, June 3, 2019 Querétaro: Francisco Domínguez Servién PAN Quintana Roo: Carlos Joaquín González PRD San Luis Potosí: Juan Manuel Carreras PRI Sinaloa: Quirino Ordaz Coppel PRI Sonora: Claudia Pavlovich Arellano PRI Tabasco: Adán Augusto López Hernández MORENA Tamaulipas: Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca PAN Tlaxcala: Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez PRI Veracruz: Cuitláhuac García Jiménez MORENA Yucatán: Mauricio Vila Dosal PAN Zacatecas: Alejandro Tello Cristerna PRI
LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress
President of the Senate Mónica Fernández Balboa MORENA, starting September 1, 2019
President of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Angélica Rojas Hernández PAN, until September 1 Dulce María Sauri Riancho PRI, starting September 1
Monthly events
January January 1 Tax changes designed to increase income for the Office for the Treasury and Public Credit (SHCP) take effect.Cambios fiscales para 2020 entrarán en vigor el 1 de enero Fernando Rosales, El Sol de Toluca, December 28, 2019 The minimum wage increases 20%, from MXN $102.68 to $123.22 (US$6.53) daily.A partir de este miércoles sube el salario mínimo en México Aristegui Noticias, January 1, 2020 This is still lower than in Brazil and Colombia, where per capita income is similar.Mexico's new minimum wage: Thanks for trying by Suman Naishadham, Al Jazeera, January 31, 2020 January 2 Reuters reports that Mexican citizens who seek asylum in the United States will be sent to Guatemala.EU enviaria solicitantes de asilo mexicanos a Guatemala: Reuters Reuters, January 2, 2020 The first femicide of the year is reported in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí.San Luis Potosí reportó el primer feminicidio de 2020 Infobae, January 2, 2020 A second riot at the prison in Cieneguillas, Zacatecas leaves one dead in addition to the 16 inmates who were killed on December 31, 2019. January 3 Mexico names Edmundo Font new interim Chargé d'affaires for Bolivia.México nombra a nuevo encargado de negocios en su embajada de Bolivia Gabriela Frías, CNN, January 3, 2020 President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) requests the liberation of Julian Assange.López Obrador pide la liberación de Julian Assange y que no se le torture El Pais Internacional, January 3, 2020 January 4 – An earthquake with a magnitude 5.9 and an epicenter in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca was felt in at least states: Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelos, State of Mexico, and Mexico City. No damage is reported.Sismo de magnitud 6 es sentido en ocho entidades del país Proceso January 4, 2020 January 5 – 26: Mérida Fest 2020, Mérida, YucatánMérida Fest 2020 Zona Turistica.com, Retrieved January 5, 2020 January 6 President López Obrador announces that construction of 1,350 branches of the Banco de Bienestar ("Social Assistance Bank") has begun.Con ahorros, se construirán mil 350 sucursales del Banco del Bienestar: AMLO By Arturo Rodriguez Garcia, Proceso, January 6, 2020 Internet for All, part of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), begins operations with a proposed budget of MXN $3 billion (US$159 million) in 2020 and a planned completion date of 2022.Arranca operación de la empresa Internet para Todos, inicia con inversión de 3 mmdp: AMLO; Entérate Aristegui Noticias, January 6, 2020 Margarita Ríos-Farjat becomes a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).Margarita Ríos-Farjat asume como ministra de la Suprema Corte de México CNN en Español, January 6, 2020 January 7 The Office for the Treasury and Public Credit (SCHP) sells bonds worth US$2.3 billion.México coloca bonos y recibe financiamiento por 2 mil 300 millones de dólares By Juan Carlos Cruz Vargas, Proceso, January 7, 2020 At least seven people are killed and 35 injured when a train and a bus crash in Vícam, Guaymas, Sonora.Al menos 6 muertos y 35 heridos deja accidente entre tren y autobús en México Xinhua News Español, January 7, 2020 January 8 Arias Consultores releases a poll that describes the best and worst governors. Sinaloa governor Quirino Ordaz Coppel is chosen best, while Puebla governor L. Miguel Barbosa Huerta is declared the worst. Mexico becomes president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.Asume México presidencia pro tempore de la Celac By Ana Langner, La Jornada, January 8, 2020 January 9 Popocateptl volcano emits 3 km of smoke. On January 7 and 8, the volcano emitted 155 exhalations, 198 minutes of shaking, and three earthquakes.Emite el Popocatépetl fumarola de 3 km Rene Ramon, La Jornada, January 9, 2020Aviso Especial por la actividad del Volcán Popocatépetl Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Gobierno de Mexico, January 8, 2020 AMLO promises that obesity will be combatted by a nutrition campaign, not through new taxes.Obesidad se combatirá con campaña de nutrición no con aumento a impuestos: AMLO Proceso, January 9, 2020 January 10 A teacher is killed and four people are wounded in the Colegio Cervantes shooting in Torreón, Coahuila. The eleven-year-old shooter committed suicide.Alumno mata a una maestra y hiere a cuatro personas en colegio de Torreón, luego se suicida By Maria Luisa Vivas, Proceso, January 10, 2020 A 21-year-old man is arrested and charged with terrorism for using pepper spray in several stores in Monterrey, Nuevo León.NL: Sujeto es procesado por terrorismo por esparcir gas pimienta en comercios Politico, January 10, 2020 January 10 – February 4: Leon State Fair, León, GuanajuatoFeria Estatal de León 2020: Cuándo inicia Union de Guanajuato, January 3, 2020 January 11 The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) requests the Attorney General (FGR) to sue to prohibit an auction of 28 Mexican archaeological treasures by French auctioneer "Millon de París" on January 22. The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs (SRE) also plans to ask the French government to intervene.Buscan impedir subasta parisina de 28 piezas arqueológicas de México by Mónica Mateos-Vega, La Jornada Cultural, January 11, 2020 Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez says Jalisco will not participate in the Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar (Insabi) (Institute of Health for Welfare).Alfaro reitera que Jalisco no se unirá al Insabi porque “está condenado al fracaso” Gloria Reza M., Proceso, January 11, 2020 Activists place hundreds of red shoes in Mexico City's Zócalo to protest the murders of an average ten women and girls daily; fewer than 10% are resolved.In Mexican capital, red shoes to protest killings of women By PETER ORSI, AP News, January 11, 2020 Mexico City imposes a ban on plastic bags.Plastic bag ban goes into effect in Mexico City Al Jazeera, January 11, 2020 January 12 – President Lopez Obrador meets with members of the LeBaron family in Bavispe, Sonora.Video: AMLO se reúne con familia LeBarón en Bavispe, Sonora Televisa News, January 12, 2020 AMLO promises to erect a monument in La Mora, Sonora in honor of the nine family members killed.Monument to honor US-Mexican dual citizens slain in Mexico By CHRISTIAN TORRES and PETER ORSI, AP News, January 12, 2020 Protesters accused Julián LeBarón of stealing land and water.Protestan contra los LeBarón durante gira de AMLO Milenio, January 12, 2020 January 13 Secretary of Education (SEP) Esteban Moctezuma proposes a new scheme for Operativo Mochilla (Operation backpack) wherein parents will be responsible for revising the backpacks of children and staff at schools so as to prevent the entry of guns and other contraband.La SEP plantea nuevo esquema del programa "Mochila Segura" Informador.mx, January 13, 2020 Governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Morelos says that at least 180 police officers are being investigated for ties to organized crime and drug trafficking.En Morelos, 180 policías vinculados con el Narco: Cuauhtémoc Blanco Aristegui Noticias, January 13, 2020 China announces that two of its banks will lend US$600 million for the construction of the Dos Bocas refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco.China presta 600 mdd para Dos Bocas El Universal, January 13, 2020 Con 600 mdd, China financiará parte de Dos Bocas Milenio, January 13, 2020 Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle makes it clear that the refinery will be built with public funds, but that contractors may borrow money from China or other countries.Nahle niega que gobierno haya pedido financiamiento de China para Dos Bocas Milenio, January 13, 2020 January 14 Despite confessing to abusing several minors, Fernando Martínez Suárez will remain a member of the Legion of Christ but he will not perform priestly duties.Mexicano culpable de abuso sexual a menores seguirá en los Legionarios de Cristo By Juliana González, CNN en Espaňol, January 14, 2020 The presidential airplane has been returned to Mexico after the government tried to sell it in the United States for a year at a cost of US$1.5 million in maintenance. It may be rented out or bartered for needed goods. 19 other planes and nine helicopters will be auctioned off, with the hopes of raising US$1 billion.Mexico: Amlo sought to sell presidential jet, but nobody wanted it The Guardian, January 14, 2020 The Supreme Court rules that National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) can ignore the ban against paying its executives more than the President of Mexico.INEGI mantendrá sueldos superiores al de AMLO: SCJN By Diana Lastiri, El Universal, January 14, 2020 January 16 Two earthquakes of 5.3 and 4.9 respectively, hit at least five municipalities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca. Slight damages but no injuries are reported. There have been 679 earthquakes in Oaxaca this year.Sismo daňa viviendas y edificios publicos en al menos 5 municipios de Oaxaca El Universal, January 16, 2020