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.
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May
- 8 May – Rolling blackouts affect several cities in Mexico amidst an ongoing heatwave.[15]
- 11 May – Eight people are killed in a mass shooting in Huitzilac, Morelos.[16][17]
- 14 May – Eleven people are killed in two mass shootings in and around Chicomuselo, Chiapas.[18]
- 15 May – El Califa de León, located in Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City, becomes the first Mexican taco stand to receive a Michelin star.[19]
- 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]
- 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.[21]
- 24 May – Dozens of people are killed across Mexico in a deadly heatwave, with temperatures as high as 45 °C (113 °F) recorded.[22]
- 28 May – South Africa's genocide case against Israel: Mexico announces it will intervene in the genocide case on the side of South Africa.[23]
September
- 10 September – Protesters demonstrating against the 2024 Mexican judicial reform storm the Senate building.[54]
- 15 September – President Lopez 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]
- 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.[57]
- 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.[58]
- 23 September – Hurricane John makes landfall near Marquelia as a Category 3 hurricane,[59] killing at least three people.[60]
- 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, Michoacan, 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]
October
- 1 October –
- Claudia Sheinbaum is sworn in as the 66th President of Mexico.[66] 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.[67]
- A truck carrying migrants is fired upon by soldiers near Huixtla, Chiapas, killing six passengers and injuring ten others.[68]
- Four people are killed and two others are injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a drug rehabilitation center in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[69]
- 2 October – President Sheinbaum issues an official apology for the killing of student protesters by soldiers in the Tlatelolco massacre in 1968.[70]
- 3 October – Twelve people are killed in a series of attacks by suspected drug cartels in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[71]
- 6 October – Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of Chilpancingo, is assassinated less than a week after taking office.[72]
- 13 October – Five decapitated bodies are found along a road in Ojuelos, Jalisco.[73]
January
- 4 January – Rosie Reyes, 84, Olympic tennis player (1968).[74]
- 5 January –
- 6 January – Amparo Rubín, singer and lyricist.[77]
- 8 January –
- 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).[80]
- 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.[81]
- 13 January – Ernesto Martens, 90, chemical engineer, secretary of energy (2000–2003).[82]
- 16 January – José Agustín, 79, novelist (La tumba, De perfil, Ciudades desiertas), short-story writer, and essayist.[83]
- 17 January – Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez, 69, politician and engineer, senator (2000–2006) and secretary of social development (1993–1998).[84]
- 21 January – Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles, 71, politician, secretary of energy (1995–1997) and ambassador to the United States (1997–2000).[85]
- 29 January – Héctor Sanabria, 78, football player (UNAM Pumas, national team) and manager (Toluca).[86]
February
- 2 February –
- 3 February – Helena Rojo, 79, actress (The House in the South, The Great Adventure of Zorro, Misterio) and model.[89]
- 5 February – Horacio Sánchez Unzueta, 74, politician, lawyer and ambassador, governor of San Luis Potosí (1993–1997) and deputy (1991–1992).[90]
- 9 February – Renata Flores, 74, actress (Rosa salvaje, La usurpadora, Amores verdaderos) and rock singer.
- 14 February –
- 19 February – Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, 68, economist, secretary of finance and public credit (2018–2019).[93]
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