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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.
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]
US PresidentJoe 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]
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]
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]
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 Michoacán.[47]
4 August – Journalist Alejandro Martínez is shot dead in Celaya.[48]
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.[49]
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.[50]
27 August – Mexico suspends all interactions with the Canadian and American embassies in Mexico City due to claimed interference with its independence and internal affairs after both ambassadors criticized planned reforms in the judiciary.[51]
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.[55]
17 September – Six people are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Naucalpan.[56]
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.[61]
27 September –
Hurricane John makes a second landfall near Tizupan, Michoacán, this time as a tropical storm,[62] killing a total of 17 people.[63]
Twenty-four surveillance cameras used by drug cartels are discovered attached to public installations in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora.[64]
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.[65]
30 September – The government orders a ban on the sale of junk food in schools by April 2025.[66]
October
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]
17 October – Unidentified gunmen open fire on the offices of the newspaper El Debate in Culiacán.[76]
20 October – Marcelo Pérez, a Catholic priest and indigenous rights activist working in Chiapas, is shot dead after celebrating Sunday mass in San Cristóbal de las Casas.[77]
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.[78]
24 October –
Sixteen people, including two responding police officers, are killed in a shootout between rival drug cartels in Guerrero.[79]
Three police officers are injured in a car bombing in Acámbaro, Guanajuato.[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]
Twelve people are killed in an explosion and fire at a steel factory in Xaloztoc, Tlaxcala.[84]
The Mexican Tennis Federation cancels its Juniors 30 tournament in Irapuato, Guanajuato, after ten underage players and a coach are targeted by a virtual kidnapping scheme.[85]
November
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]
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]
22 November – The police chief of Texcaltitlan, Mexico State, dies from suicide amid an attempt to arrest him on corruption charges. The mayor and police chief of Amanalco and the police chief of Tejupilco are also arrested on similar charges.[93]
24 November – Six people are killed and five others are injured in a shooting at a bar in Villahermosa.[94]
30 November – Eight people are killed and two others are injured in a shooting at a food stall in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato.[95]
December
8 December – An unsuccessful hijacking is made on a domestic Volaris passenger aircraft flying from León to Tijuana, forcing its diversion to Guadalajara, where a passenger is arrested on suspicion of plotting to divert the aircraft to the United States.[96]
10 December – Authorities announce the deaths of 17 children who were confined in various healthcare facilities in Michoacán, Guanajuato and the State of Mexico from blood infection caused by drug-resistant Klebsiella oxytoca bacteria believed to have been present in contaminated IV feeding bags.[98]
11 December – Edmundo Román Pinzón, a judge in a state appeals court in Guerrero, is shot dead by unknown gunmen in Acapulco.[97]
15 December – Jesús Franco Lárraga, the mayor of Tancanhuitz de Santos, San Luis Potosí, is shot dead along with three others by unknown gunmen in a highway ambush.[99]
16 December –
Four police officers are killed in an attack on a patrol near Uriangato, Guanajuato.[100]
Two soldiers are killed in a landmine explosion in Michoacan blamed on the La Resistencia cartel.[101]
18 December – Two soldiers are killed in a landmine explosion in Michoacan blamed on drug cartels.[102]
19 December – Seven inmates are killed in a prison riot in Villahermosa.[103]
