2026 in Mexico
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Events
January
- 2 January – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Guerrero, killing two people.[1]
- 8 January – Carlos Castro, the director of the online media outlet Código Norte Veracruz, is shot dead in Poza Rica.[2]
- 13 January – The head of operations of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Guadalajara is arrested in Zapopan.[3]
- 16 January – American fugitive Alejandro Castillo is captured in Pachuca after nearly 10 years on the run.[4]
- 19 January – Businessman Carlos Slim announces he will buy two offshore oil fields previously owned by Russian oil company Lukoil, which was sanctioned.[5]
- 20 January – Mexico extradites 37 suspected drug cartel members to the United States.[6]
- 21 January –
- Footballers Brian Gutiérrez and Richard Ledezma are granted approval by FIFA to play senior level international matches for the Mexican national team.[7]
- Canadian snowboarder and alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding is arrested in Mexico City.[8]
- 22 January – César Alejandro Sepúlveda Arellano, the suspected leader of the Blancos de Troya criminal group, is arrested in Buenavista, Michoacán.[9][10]
- 25 January – At least 11 people are killed in an armed attack at a football match in Salamanca, Guanajuato.[11]
- 27 January – President Sheinbaum announces the suspension of oil shipments to Cuba.[12]
- 28 January – 10 people are abducted from mining facilities owned by Vizsla Silver in Sinaloa.[13] 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.[14]
- 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.[15]
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.[16]
- 5 February –
- A health alert is declared in Jalisco due to a measles outbreak in Guadalajara.[17]
- 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.[18]
- Santiago Gallon Henao, a suspect in the 1994 killing of Colombian football player Andrés Escobar, is shot dead in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.[19]
- 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.[20]
- 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.[21]
- 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]
- 22 February –
- The military and state police ambush and kill CJNG boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho", in Tapalpa, Jalisco.[23][24]
- 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 Yucatán.[25][26]
- 26 February –
- The Supreme Court of Mexico convenes in Tenejapa, Chiapas, in its first session in its history outside Mexico City.[27]
- TV Azteca files for bankruptcy protection intended to restructure the network with approximately $2 billion to $2.2 billion (USD) under judicial supervision.[28]
- 28 February – A bus falls into a ravine in Tlalneplanta, Morelos, killing eight people and injuring 24 others.[29]
March
- 6 March – A fire destroys 60 structures in Punta Zicatela, Oaxaca.[30]
- 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.[31]
- 17 March – Five people are killed following a fire at the Dos Bocas Refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco.[32]
- 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.[33]
- 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.[34][35]
- 24 March – 2026 Makarenko School shooting: Two female staff members are killed by a 15-year-old male at a high school in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.[36]
- 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.[37][38]
- Two people are killed in a collapse at the El Rosario mine in Sinaloa.[39][40]
- 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.[41] The missing vessels and crew are found safe on 29 March.[42]
- 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.[43]
- 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.[44]
April
- 1 April – Juan Ramón de la Fuente resigns as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for health reasons. Pending Senate approval, he will be replaced by Roberto Velasco Álvarez.[45]
- 14 April – Netflix acquires the broadcasting rights of the Mexican national team for the 2027 and 2029 CONCACAF Nations League finals and Gold Cup editions.[46]
- 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.[47]
- 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.[48]
- 19 April – The 34-km Gran Tenochtitlán Bikeway, running from Plaza Tlaxcoaque to the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City, is officially opened.[49]
- 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.[50]
- 23 April – Former Mexican Navy rear admiral Fernando Farías Laguna is arrested in Buenos Aires on allegations of illegal fuel extraction contraband and criminal association with drug cartels.[51]
- 28 April – Senior CJNG leader Audias Flores Silva aka "El Jardinero" is arrested near El Mirador, Nayarit.[52]
- 29 April – Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya and eight 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.[53]
Scheduled
- 7 June – Legislative election in Coahuila (all 25 seats in the Congress of Coahuila)[54]
- 11 June – 19 July – 2026 FIFA World Cup[55]
Sports
Holidays
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 2 February – Constitution Day
- 16 March – Benito Juárez Day
- 2 April – Maundy Thursday
- 3 April – Good Friday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 5 May – Cinco de Mayo
- 16 September – Independence Day
- 12 October – Día de la Raza
- 2 November – Day of the Dead
- 17 November – Revolution Day
- 12 December – Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
- 25 December – Christmas Day
Art and entertainment
Deaths
January
- 16 January – Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez, 92, PRI politician, mayor of San Luis Potosí (1968–1970), governor of San Luis Potosí (1973–1979) and two-term federal deputy.[59]
- 22 January – Pedro Pablo Elizondo, 76, prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.[60]
- 22 January – Ernesto Gil Elorduy, 82, PRI politician, mayor of Pachuca (1985–1988), senator and two-term federal deputy.[61]
- 30 January – Henner Hofmann, 75, cinematographer and film producer.[62]
- 31 January – Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, 62, PAN politician, municipal president of Mexicali (2016–2019) and incumbent senator for Baja California.[63]
- 31 January – Gerardo Taracena, 55, actor (Apocalypto, Man on Fire, Narcos: Mexico).[64]
February
- 2 February – Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, 75, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of La Paz, Baja California Sur.[65]
- 5 February – Eladio González Garza, 89, voice actor.[66]
- 5 February – Marcela Romero, 66, writer, cultural promoter and actress.[67]
- 11 February – Guillermo Monroy Becerril, 102, muralist.[68]
- 12 February – María Elena Álvarez Bernal, 95, PAN politician, senator (1997–2000) and four-term federal deputy.[69]
- 12 February – Milkman, 36, rapper, producer, and composer.[70]
- 13 February – Dolores Muñoz Ledo, 107, voice actress.[71]
- 14 February – Jorge Meléndez Preciado, 81, journalist (Radio Educación, La Jornada).[72]
- 18 February – Roger von Gunten, 92, Swiss-born artist and sculptor.[73]
- 22 February – Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, drug lord, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (since 2010).[74]
March
- 3 March – Rafael del Castillo, 92, football executive (1980–1988).[75]
- 3 March – Ana Luisa Peluffo, 96, actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.[76]
- 5 March – Pedro Friedeberg, 90, Italian-born visual artist.[77]
- 8 March – Melchor Peredo, 99, muralist.[78]
- 10 March – Ricardo Pérez Montfort, 71, historian and writer (UNAM, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias).[79]
- 11 March – Ignacio Madrazo Navarro, 83, neurosurgeon, Premio Nacional de Ciencias in 1987.[80]
- 11 March – Luis Téllez Tejeda, 43, poet and cultural promoter.[81]
- 15 March – Pablo Jurado, 22, footballer (goalkeeper).[82]
- 17 March – Alicia Caro, 95, Colombian-born actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.[83]
- 30 March – Deborah Dultzin, 80, astrophysicist at the UNAM's Institute of Astronomy.[84]
April
- 1 April – Salvador Castañeda Álvarez, 79, guerrilla (Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria) and writer.[85]
- 10 April – Magaly Achach Solís, 71, PRI politician from Quintana Roo.[86]
- 11 April – Manuel Gurría Ordóñez, 94, PRI politician, governor of Tabasco (1991–1992).[87]
- 13 April – Benjamín Castillo Plascencia, 80, Roman Catholic prelate.[88]
- 13 April – Juan Cruz Martínez, 73, politician from Durango.[89]
- 15 April – Lucha Moreno, 86, singer and actress from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.[90]
- 16 April – Alejandro Burillo, 74, former media executive, football and tennis promoter.[91]
- 16 April – Miguel Canto, 78, boxing champion.[92]
- 21 April – Ricardo de Pascual, 85, actor and comedian.[93]
