This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2026. The list also contains names of the incumbents at federal and state levels and cultural and entertainment activities of the year.
Incumbents
Events January 2 January – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Guerrero, killing two people. 8 January – Carlos Castro, the director of the online media outlet Código Norte Veracruz, is shot dead in Poza Rica. 13 January – The head of operations of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Guadalajara is arrested in Zapopan. 16 January – American fugitive Alejandro Castillo is captured in Pachuca after nearly 10 years on the run. 19 January – Businessman Carlos Slim announces he will buy two offshore oil fields previously owned by Russian oil company Lukoil, which was sanctioned. 20 January – Mexico extradites 37 suspected drug cartel members to the United States. 21 January – Footballers Brian Gutiérrez and Richard Ledezma are granted approval by FIFA to play senior level international matches for the Mexico national team. Canadian snowboarder and alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding is arrested in Mexico City. 22 January – César Alejandro Sepúlveda Arellano, the suspected leader of the Blancos de Troya criminal group, is arrested in Buenavista, Michoacán. 25 January – At least 11 people are killed in an armed attack at a football match in Salamanca, Guanajuato. 27 January – President Sheinbaum announces the suspension of oil shipments to Cuba. 28 January – 10 people are abducted from mining facilities owned by Vizsla Silver in Sinaloa. Nine of the 10 victims are subsequently found dead in Concordia, Sinaloa, among 10 sets of human remains recovered from a site known as La Fosa de El Verde. 29 January – Sergio Torres Félix and Elizabeth Montoya Ojeda, members of the Congress of Sinaloa for the Citizens' Movement, are injured in an armed attack in Culiacán.
February 2 February – Footballer Obed Vargas signs with La Liga club Atlético Madrid on a four-and-a-half-year contract with Atlético paying $3 million dollars for Vargas. 5 February – A health alert is declared in Jalisco due to a measles outbreak in Guadalajara. Tequila mayor Diego Rivera Navarro (Morena) is arrested by Jalisco state police over accusations of extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering and accepting bribes from the CJNG cartel. Santiago Gallon Henao, a suspect in the 1994 killing of Colombian football player Andrés Escobar, is shot dead in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico. 6–22 February – Mexico at the 2026 Winter Olympics 10 February – An Iztapalapa-based nurse is arrested in Oaxaca by state police after being on the run since early January for running over and killing a delivery motorcyclist. She was returned to Mexico City the following day. 11 February – Mexico confirms it suspended all fuel shipments to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States, but vows to continue shipments of humanitarian aid. 19 February – Authorities announce the seizure of nearly four tonnes of cocaine and the arrest of three people from a semisubmersible craft off the coast of Manzanillo, Colima. 22 February – The military and state police ambush and kill CJNG boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho", in Tapalpa, Jalisco. A wave of violent cartel roadblocks ravages through multiple states following the killing of El Mencho with confirmed clashes and roadblocks in Jalisco, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Colima, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Puebla and Quintana Roo. 26 February – The Supreme Court of Mexico convenes in Tenejapa, Chiapas, in its first session in its history outside Mexico City. TV Azteca files for bankruptcy protection intended to restructure the network with approximately $2 billion to $2.2 billion (USD) under judicial supervision. 28 February – A bus falls into a ravine in Tlalneplanta, Morelos, killing eight people and injuring 24 others.
March 6 March – A fire destroys 60 structures in Punta Zicatela, Oaxaca. 15 March – Mexico wins the Guinness World Record for the largest football class after 9,500 people attend an event held at the Zócalo in Mexico City. 17 March – Five people are killed following a fire at the Dos Bocas Refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco. 18 March – Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales aka Lobo Menor, an Ecuadorean national suspected of leading the Los Lobos gang and wanted in Ecuador over the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, is arrested in Mexico City and extradited to Colombia, where he is also wanted on charges of involvement with FARC dissidents. 19 March – A raid kills 11 members of the Sinaloa Cartel in El Álamo, Sinaloa, with a senior cartel leader being captured along with many weapons. 24 March – 2026 Lázaro Cárdenas school shooting: Two female staff members are killed by a 15-year-old male at a high school in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán. 25 March – Berta Olga Gómez Fong, wife of former Chihuahua governor César Duarte, is detained in El Paso, Texas, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Two people are killed in a collapse at the El Rosario mine in Sinaloa. 26 March – The Mexican Navy launches a search and rescue operation in the Caribbean Sea for two sailboats which departed from Isla Mujeres with nine crew members, carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after they failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled and lost communication. The missing vessels and crew are found safe on 29 March. 28 March – The Estadio Azteca (now Banorte) reopens to the public with Mexico taking on Portugal ending in a 0–0 draw, with 84,130 spectators in attendance. 31 March – The government begins construction of a 25 billion peso desalination plant in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, to be completed in 2029. The plant will be the largest and most modern in Latin America and will produce 2,200 liters of water per second.
April 1 April – Juan Ramón de la Fuente resigns as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for health reasons. He is replaced by Roberto Velasco Álvarez. 14 April – Netflix acquires the broadcasting rights of the Mexico national team for the 2027 and 2029 CONCACAF Nations League finals and Gold Cup editions. The United States imposes sanctions on two casinos in Tamaulipas and three individuals over the links to the Cártel del Noreste. 15 April – Killing of Carolina Flores Gómez. A video is leaked showing former beauty queen Carolina Flores Gómez being killed in Mexico City by her mother-in-law, Erika María Herrera, in a femicide. 19 April – A truck carrying Mexican and American law enforcement agents returning from an anti-drug operation falls into a ravine in Morelos, Chihuahua, killing two Mexican officers and two U.S. undercover CIA agents. The 34-km Gran Tenochtitlán Bikeway, running from Plaza Tlaxcoaque to the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, is officially opened. János Balla aka Dániel Takács, a suspected drug trafficker wanted in Hungary and subject to an Interpol Red Notice, is arrested in Quintana Roo. 20 April – 2026 Teotihuacan shooting: A gunman opens fire from atop the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacan, killing a Canadian woman and injuring 13 other tourists. The perpetrator later commits suicide. 23 April – Former Mexican Navy rear admiral Fernando Farías Laguna is arrested in Buenos Aires on allegations of fuel contraband and criminal association with drug cartels. 28 April – Senior CJNG leader Audias Flores Silva aka "El Jardinero" is arrested near El Mirador, Nayarit. 29 April – Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other Mexican government officials are indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel, other charges include money laundering and fuel trafficking. Rocha and Culiacán mayor subsequently go on leave beginning 1 May.
May 1 May – A bus overturns in Amatlán de Cañas, Nayarit, killing 11 people and injuring 31. 5 May – Diana Toro Díaz, accused of collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel, is arrested in Canada. Charges include drug trafficking, money laundering and extortion. 7 May – The U.S. Department of State and other federal agencies order an investigation of all 53 Mexican consulates in that country. The Trump administration accuses former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador of utilizing Mexican consulates in the U.S. to monitor political activities. 11–15 May – Former Sinaloa secretary of public security Gerardo Mérida Sánchez and former state treasurer Enrique Díaz Vega are arrested in the United States, the first two of the 10 Mexican officials indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations of corruption and drug trafficking to be taken into custody. 17 May – Ten people are killed in an attack by gunmen on the town of Tehuitzingo, Puebla. 25 May – President Claudia Sheinbaum announces that Mexico will host the Iran national football team for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after the Trump administration refuses to host the team in the US during its war against Iran. 26 May – President Sheinbaum publicly calls on the public to boycott TV Azteca amid a feud between the network and the federal government over censorship and freedom of speech.
June 3 June – A Los Angeles Times article reveals that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating both Sonora and Tamaulipas governors Alfonso Durazo and Américo Villarreal, allegedly for drug trafficking and fuel contraband. 7 June – 2026 Coahuila state election (all 25 seats in the Congress of Coahuila) 11 June – 19 July – 2026 FIFA World Cup 13 June – Joel Bravo Martínez, the mayor of San Miguel Amatitlán in Oaxaca, is shot dead. 24 June – Seventeen people are injured when a car drives into a crowd of football fans in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur; the driver is beaten by fans and dies of his injuries six days later. 25 June – The General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) approves the creation of two new political parties: Construyendo Sociedades de Paz and Somos México.
July 1 July – Four people die, three of asphyxiation, during World Cup celebrations in Mexico City. 2 July – Gilda Susana Lozoya, sister of former Pemex director Emilio Lozoya Austin, is arrested at Mexico City International Airport by authorities over allegations of corruption and money laundering. 16 July – The former governor of Baja California, Ernesto Ruffo Appel, is arrested at his residence in Ensenada accused of running a fuel contraband operation; other charges include money laundering and extortion. 17 July – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits Chiapas, injuring 18 people. 20 July – Former Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. court. 24 July – The United States imposes a 10% tariff on Mexico, citing the presence of alleged forced labor in the supply chain. 27 July – A fleet of 57 PepsiCo delivery vehicles is burned in an arson attack in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. It is widely suspected that organized crime is behind the incident. 30 July – Federal authorities arrest Ramón Ángel Álvarez Ayala known as "R1", he is presumably the main suspect in the 2025 murders of Valeria Márquez and Uruapan mayor Carlos Manzo.
August 12 August – A list of media outlets published by Secretary Luisa María Alcalde Luján is released during the morning conference. The listing includes media outlets that allegedly promote disinformation and defamation against the federal government. The U.S. Department of State confirms the revocation of visa entry to Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, the son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Beltrán accused both the Trump administration and the Department of State claiming the revocation of his U.S. visa is a purely political move. 21 August – Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya, on a leave of absence since May following accusations of ties to organized crime, returns to office. 22 August – Rubén Rocha Moya asks the Congress of Sinaloa to grant him an indefinite leave of absence from his position as governor of Sinaloa.