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

See also: Cabinet of Mexico

President and cabinet

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

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Norma Lucía Piña Hernández

Governors

See also: List of current state governors in Mexico and National Governors Conference (Mexico)

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

Main article: LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

• Ana Lilia Rivera

President of the Chamber of Deputies

• Marcela Guerra Castillo

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 State.
• 27 February – A tractor-trailer and a pick-up truck collide in San Luis Potosi, killing 10 people.

March

• 1 March – Four soldiers are killed by a 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 Michoacan Civil Guard are killed in an attack on a highway between Patzcuaro 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 City 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, Mexico State.

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 Leon.
• 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 Limon, Veracruz.
• 21 June – United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen announces sanctions against eight members of La Nueva Familia Michoacana.

Scheduled events

• 13 to 21 July – 2024 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup
• 1 October – The inauguration of Claudia Sheinbaum as the next President of Mexico will be held on that date for the first time since a change in the electoral law in 2014 moved the date from 1 December.

Art and entertainment

• List of Mexican films of 2024
• List of 2024 box office number-one films in Mexico
• List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

January

• 4 January – Rosie Reyes, 84, Olympic tennis player (1968).
• 5 January –
  • Jorge Aguilar Mora, 77, poet and writer, winner of Xavier Villaurrutia Award (2015).
  • Carlos Bremer, 63, businessman and philanthropist.
• 6 January – Amparo Rubín, singer and lyricist.
• 8 January –
  • Adan Canto, 42, actor (Designated Survivor, The Cleaning Lady).
  • Héctor Murguía Lardizábal, 70, politician, MP (1994–2012) and mayor of Ciudad Juárez (2004–2007, 2010–2013).
• 10 January – Sergio García Ramírez, 85, jurist and politician, attorney general (1982–1988) and secretary of labor and social welfare (1981–1982), president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2004–2007).
• 11 January – Agustín Téllez Cruces, 105, politician, interim governor of Guanajuato (1984–1985), justice (1974–1982) and president (1977–1982) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
• 13 January – Ernesto Martens, 90, chemical engineer, secretary of energy (2000–2003).
• 16 January – José Agustín, 79, novelist (La tumba, De perfil, Ciudades desiertas), short-story writer, and essayist.
• 17 January – Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez, 69, politician and engineer, senator (2000–2006) and secretary of social development (1993–1998).
• 21 January – Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles, 71, politician, secretary of energy (1995–1997) and ambassador to the United States (1997–2000).
• 29 January – Héctor Sanabria, 78, football player (UNAM Pumas, national team) and manager (Toluca).

February

• 2 February –
  • Francisco Jara, 82, footballer (Guadalajara, national team).
  • Luis Morales Reyes, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tacámbaro (1979–1985) and Torreón (1990–1999) and archbishop of San Luis Potosí (1999–2012).
• 3 February – Helena Rojo, 79, actress (The House in the South, The Great Adventure of Zorro, Misterio) and model.
• 5 February – Horacio Sánchez Unzueta, 74, politician, lawyer and ambassador, governor of San Luis Potosí (1993–1997) and deputy (1991–1992).
• 9 February – Renata Flores, 74, actress (Rosa salvaje, La usurpadora, Amores verdaderos) and rock singer.
• 14 February –
  • Diego Chávez, 28, footballer (Veracruz, Mannucci).
  • Sasha Montenegro, 78, actress (Rina, Una mujer marcada, Las vías del amor).
• 19 February – Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, 68, economist, secretary of finance and public credit (2018–2019).

April

• 20 April – Lourdes Portillo, 80, filmmaker (The Devil Never Sleeps) and activist.

June

• 14 June – Nancy MacKenzie, 81, actress (The Simpsons).

See also

• Outline of Mexico
• Index of Mexico-related articles
• History of Mexico

External links

• Online calendar