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
+ President and cabinet Office Image Name Tenure / Current length President Andrés Manuel López Obrador - 1 October 2024Claudia Sheinbaum1 October 2024 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
President of the Supreme Court: Norma Lucía Piña Hernández
Governors
LXVI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
President of the Senate Ana Lilia Rivera
President of the Chamber of Deputies Marcela Guerra Castillo, Ifigenia Martínez, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna
Events January 19 January – José Alberto García Vilano, the leader of the Gulf Cartel, is arrested in Monterrey. 30 January: A bus collides with a truck on a highway in Elota, Sinaloa, killing 19 people and injuring 18 others. Four people are killed and 15 others are rescued after a boat capsizes while travelling between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo.
February 5 February – Four taxi and bus drivers are killed during coordinated shootings in Chilpancingo. 26 February – Illegal loggers kill three forest rangers in the foothills of the Iztaccihuatl volcano in Puebla. 27 February – A tractor-trailer and a pick-up truck collide in San Luis Potosí, killing 10 people.
March 1 March – Four soldiers are killed by an 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. 18 March – Three officers of the Michoacán Civil Guard are killed in an attack on a highway between Pátzcuaro and Uruapan. 27 March – At least four people are killed in wildfires across the State of Mexico.
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. 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. The headquarters of the state government of Guerrero in Chilpancingo is set on fire by demonstrators protesting the Iguala mass kidnapping. 27 April – Five people are found dead inside a house in Oaxaca after consuming a poisoned substance during a Santeria ritual. 28 April – Eighteen people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bus crashes on a highway in Malinalco, State of Mexico.
May 8 May – Rolling blackouts affect several cities in Mexico amidst an ongoing heatwave. 11 May – Eight people are killed in a mass shooting in Huitzilac, Morelos. 14 May – Eleven people are killed in two mass shootings in and around Chicomuselo, Chiapas. 15 May – El Califa de León, located in Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, becomes the first Mexican taco stand to receive a Michelin star. 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. 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 León. 24 May – Dozens of people are killed across Mexico in a deadly heatwave, with temperatures as high as 45 °C (113 °F) recorded. 28 May – South Africa's genocide case against Israel: Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of South Africa.
June 2 June: 2024 Mexican general election: Claudia Sheinbaum is elected as the first female president of Mexico. 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. 2024 Mexican local elections 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. 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. 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. 8–9 June – Around 4,200 people are displaced after armed gangs attack the town of Tila in Chiapas. 9 June – Nine people are injured in an explosion in Acapulco. 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. 17 June – Salvador Villalva Flores, the newly elected mayor of Copala, Guerrero, is shot dead aboard a bus in San Pedro las Playas. 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. 20 June: Three people are reported dead in Nuevo León due to Tropical Storm Alberto. Two people are killed during protests against suspected water contamination by a pork processing plant in San Antonio Limón, Veracruz. 21 June – United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen announces sanctions against eight members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization.
July 1 July – The bodies of 19 people are found in the vicinity of an abandoned dump truck in La Concordia, Chiapas. 5 July – Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula after killing twelve people in the Caribbean. 8 July – Minerva Pérez, the head of the fishing industry chamber of Baja California, is shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Ensenada. 13 to 21 July – 2024 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup 17 July – Six members of two families are shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Yuriria, Guanajuato. 23 July – Six people are killed in an explosion at a tequila factory owned by Jose Cuervo in Tequila, Jalisco. 24 July – Guatemalan authorities announce the arrival of 600 refugees from Mexico fleeing drug-related violence in Chiapas. 25 July – Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is arrested along with Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of imprisoned cartel co-founder Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, by US authorities in El Paso, Texas.
August
2 August: Four men, including a police officer, are found shot to death near Cancún, Quintana Roo. The Mexican Army confirms the first deaths of its personnel in drone strikes launched by drug cartels in Michoacán. 4 August – Journalist Alejandro Martínez is shot dead in Celaya. 20 August –2024 Mexican judicial reform: Workers in federal courts nationwide go on strike in protest over plans by President López Obrador to have judges elected to office and reduce merit qualifications for judicial employees. 21 August – Eleven gunmen working for the Los Zetas cartel are convicted and sentenced to up to 50 years' imprisonment for the killing of 122 people in the 2011 San Fernando massacre. 27 August – Mexico suspends all interactions with the Canadian and U.S. embassies in Mexico City due to claimed interference with its independence and internal affairs after both ambassadors criticized planned reforms in the judiciary. 28 August – Senators Araceli Saucedo and José Sabino Herrera, elected for the defunct Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), defect to the ruling Morena party, leaving Morena and its allies one seat short of a supermajority in both chambers of Congress. 29 August – Three people are killed and 17 are injured after a car crashes into a group of migrants in Oaxaca.
September
10 September – Protesters demonstrating against the 2024 Mexican judicial reform storm the Senate building. 15 September – President López Obrador signs the 2024 Mexican judicial reform into law, making Mexico the only country to have its judges elected by popular vote. 17 September – Six people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Naucalpan. 20 September – Rubén Oseguera González, the son of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, is convicted by a US federal jury of various drug-related charges and the downing of a Mexican military helicopter in 2015. 22 September – Infighting in the Sinaloa Cartel – At least 70 people are killed following weeks of clashes between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel in Sinaloa. 23 September – Hurricane John makes landfall near Marquelia, Guerrero, as a Category 3 hurricane, killing at least three people. 25 September – President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum officially bans King Felipe VI of Spain from attending her inauguration on 1 October, citing his failure to apologize for the Spanish conquest in the 1500s. In response, the Spanish government says that it would boycott the event altogether. 27 September – Hurricane John makes a second landfall near Tizupan, Michoacán, this time as a tropical storm, killing a total of 17 people. Twenty-four surveillance cameras used by drug cartels are discovered attached to public installations in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora. 28 September – Mexico wins the 2024 Homeless World Cup competition in Seoul, South Korea, after defeating Romania 5–2 in the women's final and England 6–5 in the men's final. 30 September – The government orders a ban on the sale of junk food in schools by April 2025.
October 1 October – Claudia Sheinbaum is sworn in as the 66th President of Mexico. 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. A truck carrying migrants is fired upon by soldiers near Huixtla, Chiapas, killing six passengers and injuring ten others. Four people are killed and two others are injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a drug rehabilitation center in Salamanca, Guanajuato. 2 October – President Sheinbaum issues an official apology for the killing of student protesters by soldiers in the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968. 3 October – Twelve people are killed in a series of attacks by suspected drug cartels in Salamanca, Guanajuato. 6 October – Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of Chilpancingo, is assassinated less than a week after taking office. 13 October – Five decapitated bodies are found along a road in Ojuelos, Jalisco. 16 October – A US federal court sentences Genaro García Luna, the former Secretary of Public Security under President Felipe Calderón, to 38 years' imprisonment for colluding with the Sinaloa Cartel in smuggling illegal drugs into the United States. 17 October – Unidentified gunmen open fire on the offices of the newspaper El Debate in Culiacán. 20 October – Marcelo Pérez Pérez, a Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist working in Chiapas, is shot dead after celebrating Sunday mass in San Cristóbal de las Casas. 21 October – Nineteen suspected gang members are killed in a shootout with soldiers outside Culiacán that leads to the arrest of a local leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. 24 October –