January • January:
Yalitza Aparicio, star of
Alfonso Cuarón's 2018 film
Roma, appears on the cover of
Vogue México. •
IWRG 23rd Anniversary Show wrestling show in Naucalpan, State of Mexico.
Sin Piedad (2019) is held in Mexico City. •
January 3: • Mayor Alejandro Aparicio Santiago of Tlaxiaco,
Oaxaca was shot dead just hours after being sworn in. Four others were injured. A suspect was arrested in what appears to be a drug-related shooting. • A temple built between 1000 and 1260
CE and dedicated to
Xipe Totec (Flayed Lord) is discovered in
Ndachjian-Tehuacan, Puebla. •
January 18: An
oil pipeline explodes in the state of
Hidalgo. One hundred and thirty-four people were killed. •
January 20: The body of journalist
Rafael Murua Manriquez was found in
Baja California Sur as the country sets new homicide record of 33,341 murders (up 33%) in 2018. •
January 21: • An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 hits 88 km southwest of
Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. •
Guillermo Pacheco Pulido is named interim governor of
Puebla. •
January 22: 21:06 local time,
Popocateptl volcano spews ash up 4 km high. •
January 31: The
Guerra de Dinastías (literally "War of the Dynasties" or "War of the Families") wrestling event takes place in
Naucalpan, State of Mexico.
February •
February 1: An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit off the coast of Chiapas. •
February 2:
Guillermo Padrés Elías, former
Governor of Sonora (PAN) 2009-2015 is released from prison after his
2016 arrest for allegedly embezzling US$8.9 million. •
February 4: Constitution Day celebrated. •
February 12:
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Mexico's most wanted criminal, was sentenced to life imprisonment in
Brooklyn, NY on multiple drug chagres. Guzmán had previously alleged that both presidents
Felipe Calderón and
Enrique Peña Nieto had taken millions in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. •
February 15: "Bahidorá" music festival begins in
Las Estacas, Morelos.*
March 16: "Vive Latino" music festival begins in Mexico City. •
February 17: Five people have been killed and five more wounded after gunmen burst into a bar
Cancun and opened fire. The gunmen are said to belong to the
Jalisco New Generation cartel. •
February 18: • An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.7 strikes 46 km west of
Colima. •
2019 Morelos Open professional tennis tournament begins in Cuernavaca. •
February 19:
Samir Flores, a leading opponent of the construction of a thermoelectric plant in
Yecapixtla, Morelos, was murdered outside his home in Amilcingo,
Temoac. Earlier in the week, Rubén Fajardo, another opponent of the plant, was murdered in
Jiutepec. •
February 21: A German court fines two ex-employers of German gun maker
Heckler & Koch for illegal gun sales to Mexico. • February 23 &
February 24: Voters in
Morelos,
Puebla, and
Tlaxcala approve the construction of a
thermoelectric power plant in Huexca,
Yecapixtla, Morelos (33,174–22,355). •
February 23: EDC music festival begins at
Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in
San Luis Potosi. •
2019 Abierto Mexicano Telcel professional tennis tournament begins in Acapulco. •
February 26: The government auctions off 196 luxury and bullet-proof cars, bringing in US$3.25 million. •
February 27:
Alejandro González Iñárritu, a Mexican film director (
Amores perros and
Birdman), is named president of the jury at the
Cannes Film Festival. • February 28: Two people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting in
Sofia bar in
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Several popular bars and nightclubs were subsequently closed in protest against insecurity. The police chief was fired on March 2 for the same reason.
March •
March 2: "Nrmal" music festival in the
Deportivo Estado Mayor Presidencial in the
State of Mexico. • March 5: Mexican scientists discover a cave at the Mayan ruins of
Chichen Itza containing around 200 ceramic vessels in nearly perfect condition. They are believed to be 1,000 years old. •
March 6:
Nuevo Leon passes a law to prohibit abortion by asserting the
right to life from conception. •
March 8: • A ruptured sewer line causes a health alert in
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. The 48" sewage line collapsed on March 3. • 23 Guatemalan immigrants, including two children, are killed and 33 injured as a bus turns over in
Chiapas. • 594 paintings that were stolen from Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s are returned by the government of Italy. •
March 9:
An armed group bursts into a bar in
Salamanca, Guanajuato) during government operation against
El Marro, leader of the cartel Santa Rosa de Lima, dedicated to the theft of gasoline in Mexico. Fifteen killed, five wounded. •
March 10: • At least seven people are executed in Colonia Clavijero,
Puebla during a war between the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Los Sinaloenses cartels. • The
2019 Rally Mexico in Guanajuato ends in victory for the French team. •
March 11: 23 migrants kidnapped from a bus in
Tamaulipas. •
March 13: The U.S. State Department issues an advisory about "Spring Break" in Mexico. •
March 14: • At 2:30 p.m. the
Popocatépetl volcano sent a column of ashes five kilometers into the air. A smaller explosion occurred four days later,
March 18. • About 20 SUVs supposedly belong to the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel participated in the
Carnaval parade in the
Xalapa, Veracruz. Videos of hooded men carrying heavy-caliber firearms circulated in social media. •
March 15:
Santiago Barroso is the 4th journalist killed this year. He worked for 'San Luis Hoy' on 91.1 FM Río Digital in
San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora. •
March 16: • "Vive Latino" music festival begins in Mexico City. • The 23rd
Rey de Reyes (2019) professional wrestling event took place in Puebla. •
March 17: Dorian Peralta, a business professor at
Universidad Autónoma de La Laguna in
Torreón, Coahuila, set a new record after giving class for 72 hours, 22 minutes, 36 seconds straight. The accomplishment will be listed in the
Guinness World Records. •
March 18: •
Benito Juarez's birthday celebrated (Monday). •
Mexican oil expropriation •
March 19: • 21:38 local time, fragments of the dome of
Popocateptl shoot within 1aone and a half-mile radius. Due to continuing activity, on March 28, based on the analysis of the available information, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Popocatépetl volcano recommended changing the phase of the Yellow Volcanic Warning Light Phase 2 to Yellow Phase 3, which is a preventive measure against the observed changes. • Viridiana Mendoza López, a student in the
National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, died on the campus, raising questions about the emergency services for students. •
March 21: • Between 5:31 and 10:30 a.m., forty-two
earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 1.9 to 4.4, were reported in
Oaxaca. • In a landmark decision for freedom of the press, the
Supreme Court rules that the attorney general of
Veracruz cannot block the
Twitter account of a journalist. •
March 22: • "Pa'l Norte" music festival begins in
Parque Funidora,
Monterrey. •
March 23: The
Diablos Rojos del México (Red Devils) open their new
Alfredo Harp Helú baseball stadium in Mexico City. •
March 24: • Mexican security forces arrest Agustín Medina Soto, a suspected Santa Rosa de Lima cartel operator who worked as a liaison with authorities in
Celaya, Guanajuato. • A leak from a clandestine gasoline operation is detected in
Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo two months after the
Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion that left 135 dead. •
March 25: • President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador sends letters to King
Felipe VI of Spain and
Pope Francis demanding they apologize for the atrocities committed during the
Conquest of Mexico. • Three municipal employees in
Salvatierra, Guanajuato are gunned down in their car. • Archeologists say that a new discovery at the base of the
Templo Mayor in Mexico City could lead to the discovery of an
Aztec emperor's tomb. •
March 27: The Constitution is amended, creating
Guardia Nacional (National Guard). •
March 28: • After an explosion recorded this morning by the
Popocatepetl volcano, the warning light went up from yellow phase 2 to yellow phase 3, the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred) reported at a press conference. • Mexico's largest hotel and resort conglomerate, Nayarit-based
Grupo Vidanta, has announced the launch of a Mexican cruise line,
Vidanta Cruises. • The first contracts have been signed for the
Mayan Train project, the general manager of the National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) announced yesterday. • 1,468 people in
Guadalajara broke the
Guinness World Records for the most people at a
tequila tasting. • Three fishermen were injured in a confrontation with the
Mexican Navy in
San Felipe, Baja California. The fishermen were protesting the presence of a boat operated by the environmental group
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who were trying to protect the
Vaquita porpoise in the
Gulf of California, protected since
2015. • The
Congress of the Union approves a measure to do away with presidential immunity (
el fuero) while preserving immunity for themselves. •
March 29: Mexican sports journalist
Omar Ivan Camacho, 35, who worked with
Noticieros Altavoz de Chavez Radiocast and helped run the
Evora Sport website, has been found dead in the municipality of
Salvador Alvarado, Sinaloa. He becomes the seventh journalist murdered in Mexico since
Andrés Manuel López Obrador became president on December 1,
2018. •
March 30: • "Vaiven" music festival in Tlaquilquitengo,
Jojutla, Morelos. • Delfino Sánchez Zavala, the delegate-elect from
Tejalpa,
Jiutepec, Morelos, was shot and killed outside his store. The meeting of the town council planned for Sunday, March 31 was canceled. • Eight state police were kidnapped by armed men in
Xicotepec,
Juan Galindo (municipality), Puebla.
April • April 4: • The Senate declares that changes to Article 19 of the
Constitution of Mexico are constitutional. The reform expands the definition of serious crimes to include corruption, crimes related to hydrocarbons, home invasion, kidnapping, and murder, among others. • A MXN $46 million (peso) robbery was carried out in three minutes at the
Guanajuato airport. • The government of
Catalonia announces that it supports President Lopez Obrador's request that Spain apologize for its genocide during the Conquest. • April 5: President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador declares that the National Guard will be headed by an active-duty military leader. •
April 6: "Ceremonia" music festival in
Foro Pegaso,
Toluca. •
Puerto Vallarta Marathon 2019. • April 8: President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that the government of Mexico will provide guards for ex-presidents
Vicente Fox and
Felipe Calderón. •
April 9: •
Defense of Veracruz, 1914. • The
Tianguis Turístico (Tourist Fair) in Acapulco reports record turnout of 47,000 business appointments. •
Michelle Bachelet, the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has promised that the UN Human Rights Commission will be involved in the training of the new National Guard. • April 11: General
Luis Rodríguez Bucio is named to head the newly formed
National Guard. • April 13: Mexican super-featherweight boxer Francisco "El Bandido" Vargas defeats American "Lightning" Rod Salka in a fight in
Indio, California. •
April 13 & 14: The
St. Louis Cardinals and the
Cincinnati Reds will play
Major League baseball games at the
Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey. •
April 14:
Palm Sunday;
Holy Week begins. •
April 19: • 2nd Riviera
Nayarit Rock Festival. • 13 people, including a one-year-old baby,
are killed during a party in
Minatitlán, Veracruz. The deaths are believed to be related to a dispute between
Los Zetas and
Jalisco New Generation Cartel. • April 22: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 had its epicenter in Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxacca and was felt in Mexico City, where the early warning system did not go off. No damages or injuries have been reported. • April 23: David Eduardo Otlica Avilés, the mayor of
Nahuatzen,
Michoacán, is kidnapped and killed. Trump also renewed his threat to close the border and send more soldiers if Mexico does not block a new caravan of Central American immigrants. • Mexican President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that construction on the New Mexico City airport will begin on Monday, April 29, and that it will be named
Felipe Ángeles (1868-1919). •
Maricela Vallejo Orea, 27, mayor of
Mixtla de Altamirano, Veracruz, is murdered while traveling in a car in
Orizaba. • April 25:
Daniela Soto-Innes, 28, has been named ''The World's Best Female Chef
by The World's 50 Best Restaurants list.
She is the first Mexican woman to be so honored, and she is also the youngest person to be so honored. She works at Cosme
in New York City and is co-owner of Atla
in the same city. She also worked at Pujol'' in Mexico City. •
April 28: Final of
2019 Central American Cricket Championship in Mexico City. Won by
Belize national cricket team. • April 29: Aidée Mendoza Jeronimo, 18, a student at
National Autonomous University of Mexico, is killed by a stray bullet in her classroom. Mendoza Jeronimo was from Tempexquixla, Puebla. She was the sixth woman murdered on the university campus in the last two years. •
April 30: Children's Day (Tuesday) • Members of the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel gave children presents for ''Children's Day'' in several municipalities of
Veracruz, including Cordoba, Yanga, Cuitláhuac, Rio Blanco, la Perla, and Amatlan. Governor
Cuitláhuac García Jiménez has promised an investigation.
May •
May 1: Labor Day (Wednesday) • 40,000 workers march in nine demonstrations for May Day.
Napoleón Gómez Urrutia, leader of the
Confederación Internacional de Trabajadores (CIT) praised president
Andrés Manuel López Obrador while teachers from the
Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación demanded the revocation of the educational reforms instituted by president
Enrique Peña Nieto. •
C.F. Monterrey win the
2019 CONCACAF Champions League. •
May 2: • Two tourists and a taxi driver are executed by
community police in
Las Choapas, Veracruz, after being accused of kidnapping a child. • The bodies of ten men and two women are discovered in secret graves in
Guasave, Sinaloa. •
May 4: • The
Houston Astros defeat the
Los Angeles Angels 14–2 in a
Major League Baseball game in
Monterrey. The Astros won 10–4 on May 5. • Claudia Sheinbaum of Mítikah has been accused of illegally cutting down 54 trees in Mexico City. She may be fined several million pesos. •
May 5: Commemoration of the
Battle of Puebla (Sunday) • 4,000 protesters in Mexico City and 30,000 protesters in 30 cities around the country join the highly promoted "Megamarcha contra
AMLO." The march in
León, Guanajuato was led by former president
Vicente Fox. • The
2019 Puerto Vallarta Open professional tennis tournament draws to a close. •
May 6: At least 13 people are killed in an airplane crash in the
Ocampo Municipality, Coahuila, en route from
Las Vegas, Nevada to
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. •
May 7: The United States imposes a 17.5%
tariff on Mexican tomatoes. •
May 8: Birthday of
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, 1753. •
Interpol announces it is looking for former
Puebla governor Mario Plutarco Marín Torres in relation to collaborating in the torture of journalist
Lydia Cacho in 2005 after she published information about child exploitation. • Businessman Jesús García and another man were killed while two others were injured when they were shot at about 10:00 a.m. in downtown
Cuernavaca, Morelos. Garcia was the father of Juan Manuel García Bejarano, who was murdered in
2017 while organizing the traditional
Spring Fair in the city. • Robbery of gasoline from a
Pemex pipeline in
Chiapas caused an explosion. Mixed reports are unclear about fatalities. A similar
explosion on January 18, 2019 caused 135 deaths. •
May 9: • Two days after being diagnosed with cancer, singer
Vicente Fernández turned down a
liver transplant because he is afraid it may come from a homosexual. •
UNICEF issues a report that says four children are killed every day in Mexico. Juan Martín Pérez of Redim (
Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México–Network for Child Rights in Mexico) put the figure at three deaths daily. • President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that
Pemex will begin building a refinery in
Dos Bocas, Tabasco on July 2, 2019 at a cost of 160 billion pesos. The opposition was quick to denounce the plan. •
May 10: Mother's Day (Friday) • Continuing the wave of violence in
Morelos, five employees of the federal womem's penitentiary in
Puente de Ixtla are gunned down on their way to work. Three others are injured. The incident took place at a bus stop located in front of a statue built to honor mothers. • Mexican walker
Lupita González has been suspended for four years due to allegations of using the steroid
Trenbolone. She is disqualified from the
2020 Summer Olympics, among other events. González plans to appeal. •
May 11: • 45 bodies have been found in clandestine graves. 30 bodies were found in
Sonora and 15 in
Guadalajara, Jalisco. • Death sentences for three Mexicans convicted of drug trafficking in
Malaysia are commuted. • The owner of Colegio Rébsamen, Mónica García Villegas, has been arrested and charged with murder in relation to the deaths of 19 students and 7 adults in the
September 19, 2017 earthquake. •
May 12: Eleven people, including an 8-year-old boy, are killed in a shooting in
Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, near Chilpancingo. Also two bodies of men who were apparently tortured were found in Tlaxmalac,
Huitzuco, a taxi driver was murdered in
Taxco, another man was killed in
El Pochote, Teloloapan, and five were killed in
Acapulco. • May 14: Mexico City mayor
Claudia Sheinbaum announces that 2019 will be the last year that the
Mexican Grand Prix will be held because the MXN $400 million (US$20.865 million) fee will be diverted to the
Tren Maya. It is estimated that the race generates MXN $8,400 million for Mexico. •
May 15 Teachers' Day • The educational reform is enacted. • For the first time in its 85-year history, the
Palacio de Bellas Artes has been used for religious purposes. The opera
El guardián del espejo (Guard of the mirror) in honor of Evangelist
Naasón Joaquín García was shown at the theater. Authorities are looking into a lawsuit. On May 22,
Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, Secretary of Culture, stated that the event was a concert, not a religious event. • Mexican wines win 39 medals, including two grand gold and two gold, at the
Concours Mondial de Bruxelles held in
Aigle, Switzerland. This puts Mexico in the top 10 best wine-making countries in the world. •
May 16: • "Festival Marvin" music festival begins in Mexico City. Classes in preschools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and universities in the Valley of Mexico and other places have been canceled. •
May 17: The
United States Department of the Treasury has declared former
Nayarit governor
Roberto Sandoval Castañeda and judge Isidro Avelar Gutiérrez "significant drug dealers". Six other individuals and six corporations were similarly sanctioned. The following day, the CJF (Council of the Federal Judiciary) suspended Judge Avelar Gutiérrez. •
May 18: • "Pulso GNP" music festival in
Querétaro. •
May 19: • The
Instituto Nacional Electoral has banned a video by
PAN in the special election in
Puebla. • The
Mexico national beach football team wins the
2019 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship in Puerto Vallarta. •
May 20: President Lopez Obrador signs a decree eliminating a special tax break for over 100 of Mexico's largest companies. He says that in the last twelve years, large corporations got away without paying MXN $400 billion in taxes. A few days earlier,
Servicio de Administración Tributaria (Mexican revenue service) announced that they will start to withhold taxes on drivers for
Uber, DiDi, Cabify, and similar ride services. Martínez Cázares resigned in protest of the lack of resources for the institution. On May 22, Germán Martínez requested to be reinstated in the
Senate. • The
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social sues former Sonora governor
Eduardo Bours for negligence in the investigation of the
2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire that killed 44 toddlers. • The
Mexican National Guard officially takes over police functions in the eight most violent states:
Guanajuato, Michoacan,
Jalisco, State of Mexico, Mexico City,
Veracruz, Guerrero, and
Morelos. •
May 23: Students' Day (Thursday) •
May 25: Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena, the head of the
Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources resigned after it was revealed that she abused her power by ordering a civilian flight delayed. • Three police officers are killed and 10 people injured in a shoot-out in
Zamora Municipality, Michoacán. Also, nine soldiers were detained and disarmed by self-defense forces in
La Huacana Municipality. They were released the same day. • The
Tigres win the national soccer championship, the Liga MX. • May 27: Pureblood "Kublaigo", ridden by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, wins the 74th
Hándicap de las Américas horse race in Mexico City. •
May 28:
Alonso Ancira, the owner and president of
Altos Hornos de México (Mexico's largest steel mill), was arrested in connection with the
2014 sale of a fertilizer plant to
PEMEX, the Mexican-state oil company. The bank accounts of
Altos Hornos and
Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former CEO of PEMEX, were frozen 24 hours earlier. It is believed that Lozoya will soon be arrested. •
May 29 • A bomb explodes in the office of Senator
Citlalli Hernández of
Morena, burning her face. • Pharmaceutical companies of
India and
Spain are the first countries to offer the sale of low-priced medicine in Mexico. •
May 30: U.S. President
Donald Trump declares he will impose a 5%
tariff on all Mexican goods imported by the United States starting June 10, 2019. The tax will increase by another 5% every month until
undocumented immigrants stop crossing the
border.
June •
June 1: National Maritime Day • Underdog Mexican heavyweight boxer
Andy Ruiz Jr. defeats
Anthony Joshua for the
heavyweight championship. • Filmmaker
Ángeles Cruz of Mixtalco,
Oaxaca wins a prize for "Best Short Fiction Film" at the
Ismailia International Film Festival in Egypt. Cruz's film,
Arcángel is about an elderly indigenous woman. •
June 2: Local elections. No mjor reports of violence were reported, and turnout was slightly over 30% of eligible voters. •
June 2: • During the "5th March for Peace", Cuernavaca Bishop
Ramón Castro Castro declares that 18 of 36 municipal governments in the state of
Morelos are controlled by drug dealers. Governor
Cuauhtémoc Blanco, who as mayor had led the marches, was notably absent. • The
2019 Nor.Ca. Women's Handball Championship in Mexico City is won by
Cuba women's national handball team. •
June 3: The government of Mexico City announces its
Plan de Reduccíon de Emisisiones del Sector Movilidad ("Plan for Reduction of Emissions in Transportation") with the intent of reducing vehicular-caused pollution by 2024. The plan includes severe restrictions on private and commercial transportation and encourages the use of mass transit and non-polluting transportation. •
June 4: • Five people have been killed and one woman is missing after flooding in
San Gabriel, Jalisco. • California Attorney General
Xavier Becerra announces that Naasón Joaquín García, leader of the
La Luz del Mundo church based in Guadalajara, and four other people, have been arrested in connection with alleged sex trafficking, child abuse, and production of child pornography. • For the first time, an all-female crew will fly a Navy plane, the
Secretariat of the Navy announces. It is a
Beechcraft Super King Air air ambulance. •
June 5: Six political prisoners, members of the environmental group
Defensores de la Tierra, (English: "Defenders of the Land") in Salazar,
Lerma, State of Mexico, have been liberated. They were arrested after the police and army helped people from nearby Tarasquillo seized and sold their land to private parties. •
June 7: Mexico's
Interior Secretary,
Olga Sánchez Cordero, announces that Mexico will send 6,000 members of the National Guard to the border with
Guatemala in response to U.S. President
Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods unless immigration is lessened. Later the same day, Trump announced that an agreement had been reached, and the tariffs will be suspended. •
June 12: • The
Carlos Slim Foundation announces that it will work with the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the
Inter-American Development Bank to end
malaria in Central America, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic. • A judge orders the suspension of construction of the airport in
Santa Lucia until environmental and cultural studies have been completed. Three days later President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatens to publicly expose the parties who are trying to stop the development of the country. •
June 13: Luxury fashion house
Carolina Herrera is accused of
cultural appropriation by Mexico's
culture secretary,
Alejandra Frausto Guerrero. •
June 14: • Two men and two women (one pregnant) are shot and wounded inside a police vehicle when it is attacked in
Benito Juárez Municipality, Quintana Roo. A young man on a motorcycle was also wounded. • A member of the
Agencia Estatal de Investigaciones (English: "State Investigation Agency") in charge of fighting kidnappings was herself kidnapped on Friday in
General Treviño, Nuevo Leon. Another agent was shot and killed. •
June 15: Four people died and at least 12 were injured when a gas tank exploded in
Tepatitlán, Jalisco. •
June 16: Father's Day •
Verano de Escándalo (2019) professional wrestling event in
Mérida, Yucatán. •
June 17: An explosion on the volcano
Popocatépetl shoots 8 km (5 miles) into the air. This was the second such explosion in 24 hours. •
June 18: Twelve
Federal Police agents are sentenced to 34 years of prison for the August 24,
2012 murder of two
CIA agents in
Tres Marias, Morelos. •
June 19: The government of
Catalonia apologizes for the
Conquest of Mexico. •
June 20: Mexico ratifies the
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement. It has not been ratified by the U.S. Congress or by Canada yet. •
June 21: • Mexico announces US$30 million for
El Salvador as part of its migration plan. • The
Congress of Morelos passes a law to prohibit the use of styrofoam and/or plastic containers. • Final of
2019 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in
Colima City. Won by
Cuba men's national volleyball team. •
June 24: •
Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Cresencio Sandoval announces the deployment of 15,000 troops along the Mexico-U.S. border. •
Sargassum threatens the coasts of
Tulum and
Xcalak. •
June 26: Over 100 Central American migrants are rescued by police in
Los Mangos and in
Tantoyuca. •
June 30: Opposition forces march in Mexico City and other parts of the country. One report describes the crowds as "hundreds".
July •
July 1: • Up to one meter (39") of hail falls in
Guadalajara, Jalisco. • Four vehicles are burned on the
Villahermosa-
Teapa (Tabasco) highway as a protest against the
Mexican National Guard. •
July 2: Two dozen people are kidnapped from a home in
Cancun, Quintana Roo. They were rescued the following day, all in good health. •
July 3: Shelters for migrants in
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, are reported full, and many Central American and Cuban refugees are forced to sleep in the streets. •
July 4: • Thousands of federal police protest against their inclusion in the National Guard. •
July 5: • For the second time, a judge orders the detention of
Emilio Lozoya Austin, former director of
Pemex, in relation to the
Odebrecht scandal. His whereabouts are unknown. Two days earlier, on July 3, Lozoya had asked for witness protection in the case involving illegal purchase of a fertilizer plant. • Mexican authorities announce they have broken up an international human-trafficking ring. • Secretary of Tourism,
Miguel Torruco Marqués announces that the
Sargassum that plagues Caribbean beaches is a national priority. Hotels in the
Riviera Maya are offering guests discounts of up to 25% in order to maintain an 80% occupancy rate. • President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposes that rural doctors and nurses be paid more than their urban counterparts, emulating
Canada, the UK,
Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. • July 5–7: The 10th
NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics are held in Querétaro. • July 6–7: The
Mexico national rugby sevens team takes 3rd place at the
2019 RAN Sevens rugby tournament in
George Town, Cayman Islands. The
Mexico women's national rugby sevens team won 1st place in its event. •
July 7: The
Mexican national soccer team wins its eighth
CONCACAF Gold Cup with a 1–0 victory over the
United States in Chicago's
Soldier Field. •
July 10: • The
National Supreme Court of Justice rules that members of the
Federal Economic Competition Commission and of the
National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) can receive salaries higher than the president's. This is a temporary measure until the entire court can decide the case. • The last
Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the line in
Puebla (city). The last of 5,961 "Special Edition" cars will be exhibited in a museum. •
July 11: • Seven members of a family in Puebla are killed in a mudslide. •
Juan Collado, the personal lawyer of former president
Enrique Peña Nieto, is arrested on charges of
money laundering and
organized crime. •
July 12: •
2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship begins in Mexico City. • "Surf Open 2019" begins in Acapulco. • 50 state agents in
Chihuahua rescue 21 kidnap victims who were forced to work in drug cultivation and sleep in a cave at night. •
July 14: The burned body of an unknown 12-year-old girl is found in
Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, an apparent victim of
femicide. This is the same day that the body of Lupita Hernández Pérez, 29, missing since June 30 and an apparent victim of femicide, is found in
Iztapalapa. • July 15: Three former employees of Mexico City's
Secretaría de Administración y Finanzas (Secretary of Administration and Finance) office are arrested for transferring over MXN $190 million (US$9.9 million) to a private bank account. •
July 17: •
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former head of the
Sinaloa cartel, which became the biggest supplier of drugs to the U.S., is sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. President Lopez Obrador insists that the money seized in fines legally belongs to Mexico. • The
National Action Party announces that it plans to expel the seven deputies in
Baja California who voted to extend the governor's term from two to five years. • The
Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) approves construction of a terminal at the new airport site in
Santa Lucía. •
July 18: • The
Federal Telecommunications Institute announces that starting August 3, there will be a simplified way to call both landline and mobile phones across the country. The
Congress of the Union also demands that the Attorney General prosecute the company. • Bank accounts of 19 Mexican companies that have sold food to
Venezuela have been frozen. Charges relate to low quality, high prices, and
money laundering. •
July 20: • Newly unclassified documents real that President
Felipe Calderón allowed the
CIA to operate within Mexico. • Two followers of
Santa Muerte (Our Lady of Holy Death) have been arrested for the
feminicide of Cruz Yere Marín Rayón, 28, in
Amozoc, Puebla. •
July 24: • Two government officials and two pilots die in a helicopter crash in
Michoacan. • General
Sócrates Alfredo Herrera Pegueros, director of security for
Pemex, is charged with aiding
huachicoleros steal gasoline. •
Carlos Romero Deschamps, leader of leader of the oilworkers' union, is expelled from the union after being charged with corruption. • Two Israeli citizens are assassinated by the
Israeli mafia in broad daylight in a shopping mall in Mexico City. •
July 26: • A Mexico City judge denies
Emilio Lozoya, former leader of
Pemex, access to his bank accounts. • The
Secretariat of Energy announces the contracts for construction of an oil refinery in
Dos Bocas, Paraiso, Tabasco. •
July 27:
Paula Fregoso wins a gold medal in
Taekwondo at the
Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.
Marco Arroyo won a bronze medal. •
July 29: • The Spanish newspaper
El País reveals that
Juan Collado, the personal lawyer of former president
Enrique Peña Nieto, moved US$120 million (MXN $229 million) to 24 accounts in banks in
Andorra. Collado used the money to acquire property in Acapulco and Miami in addition to two large airplanes. • Mexican cyclists
José Ulloa and
Daniela Campuzano win gold medals in men's and women's
mountain biking at the
2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. •
July 31: • The
Canadian government denies that its embassy in Mexico had anything to do with the coverup of the
2009 murder of activist
Mariano Abarca, reportedly at the hands of the
Blackfire Exploration, a Canadian mining company in
Chicomuselo, Chiapas. • The
Tax Administration Service (SAT) reveals a list of 300 individuals who have not paid their taxes, including former president
Vicente Fox, who owes MXN$15,000,000. The largest debt is owed by
Fausto Luis Muñiz Patiño of
Grupo Pae, who owes MXN$119,000,000 of the total MXN$17,044,000,000.
August •
August 1: 280 cases of
dengue fever have been confirmed in
Oaxaca after the death of a 5-year-old boy. Fifteen cases are considered
grave (serious). •
August 2: The government of Mexico will provide Internet access throughout the country through the establishment of a subsidiary of the
Comisión Federal de Electricidad called
CFE Telecomunicaciones e Internet para Todos (CFE Telecommunications and Internet for All). •
August 3: • Starting today, dialing a telephone requires ten digits; prefixes 01, 044, and 045 are obsolete, according to the
Federal Telecommunications Institute. • Seven Mexican citizens are among the 23 dead in a
mass shooting in
El Paso, Texas, apparently inspired by anti-immigrant hate. •
August 6: 1,500 gold
centenario coins worth US$2.5 million (MXN$55 million) are stolen from the
Mexican Mint. •
August 8: • Seven supposed kidnappers are lynched in
Cohuecán, Puebla. • After three years, a group of mothers of missing persons known as
Colectivo Solecito calls off the search for bodies in
Veracruz, in the largest clandestine cemetery in Latin America. Since
2016, they have found 298 skulls and 22,000 human remains. •
Twenty bodies have been found in
Uruapan, Michoacan—some dismembered, some in bags, others hanging from bridges. Fourteen people, including two minors, are arrested two days later. • Mexican athletes have won 27 gold, 24 silver, and 44 bronze, a total of 95 medals, at the
2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. •
August 11:
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas declares victory in the election for leader of
PRI. •
August 12: A public passenger van was burned by extortionists along the
San Juan Zitlaltpec route in the State of Mexico. This was the 21st such attack along the same route. • August 14:
Bosque de Chapultepec wins the "International Large Urban Parks Award 2019" from the "World Urban Parks Association." •
August 15: • 544 athletes and 168 coaches who participated in the
2019 Pan American Games are awarded economic stimuli of MXN $240,000 (US$12,234) each by President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador. • The
Bank of Mexico lowers interest rates for the first time in five years, from 8.25% to 8.0%. •
August 16: • Mexican-Argentine businessman
Carlos Ahumada, wanted by the
Attorney General of Mexico, is arrested in Argentina. • A women's march against violence and police corruption in Mexico City breaks out in violence. •
August 18 • A group calling itself #FueraJuecesCorruptos has convoked a march against corrupt judges on August 18. Hundreds of people march. • Judith Abigail Jiménez Pulido, 28, missing since August 9, becomes the 54th victim of
femicide in
Puebla in 2019. •
August 19: 194 exhalations, 428 minutes of quaking, 3 minor explosions, and 3 earthquakes are reported in the last 24 hours in
Popocatépetl. The alert level remains at
Yellow, Phase 2. •
August 21: Six federal police officers have been charged with murder for their supposed involvement in a police operation that left nine dead in January
2015 in
Apatzingán, Michoacan. •
August 22: Rain associated with
Tropical Storm Ivo causes flooding in
Mazatlan, Sinaloa. •
August 23: The
Lagunas de Montebello in Chiapas are drying due to drought. •
August 28: 30 people die in
an arson attack on a bar in
Coatzacoalcos, Vercruz. •
August 30: A pitched battle between
Jalisco New Generation Cartel led by "El Mencho" and Michoacan
self defense forces led by "El Abuelo" leave 9 dead and 11 injured in
Tepalcatepec Municipality, Michoacan. •
August 31:
Luis Armando Reynoso Femat, former
Governor of Aguascalientes (PAN) has been sentenced to prison for the crimes of peculation and misuse of public exercise.
September •
September 1:
President López Obrador gives his
Primer Informe del Gobierno (State of the Union address) before 400 legislators, governors, and business leaders, emphasizing his efforts to end corruption and help the poor. •
September 2 • Five are killed at a shoot-out in a
Cuernavaca, Morelos, bus station. • Óscar René González Galindo, former mayor of
Motozintla, Chiapas, (
PVEM 2012-2015) is arrested for peculation. • Gildardo Lópéz Astudillo "El Gil", who is suspected of involvement in the
2014 Ayotzinapa, Guerrero kidnapping and probable murder of 43 students, has been released after a judge rules the evidence against him was based on torture and intimidation. •
September 4: Considerable flooding and at least one dead in northwest Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas) are the toll of
Tropical Storm Fernand. •
September 5 • Alejandro Jacobo and Josué Reyes are given 55 years of prison for the
femicide of "Reyna" in
Zacatepec, Morelos in May
2018. •
Laura Angélica Rojas Hernández of (
PAN) is elected President of the
Chamber of Deputies. • September 8: 3 killed and 2 missing in
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco due to flooding of
La Culebra. •
September 11: The
Comité de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Committee) in
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, says that state police killed eight civilians on September 5 and falsely claimed they were members of the
Cártel del Noreste drug gang. •
September 13: Day of the
Niños Héroes, 1847 • Accounts of the
Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa are frozen in relation to the
Estafa Maestra. • Three underage (14 and 17 years old) hitmen are killed by municipal police while in the process of murdering 19-year-old Julián Adán Rodríguez in
San Luis Río Colorado Municipality, Sonora. • September 14:
:es:Día Nacional del Locutor (National Announcer's Day) • September 15 • President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador leads the 209th
Grito de la Independencia from the National Palace in the
Zócalo of Mexico City. He cried
¡Viva! twenty times. • One person dies and at least 16 are injured due to a fireworks accident in
Xalapa, Veracruz. •
September 16:
Independence Day (Monday) •
Parachutist injured during the Independence Day parade in Mexico City. • A group of armed men burn a bus used for public transportation in
Acapulco, Guerrero. •
September 18: French auction house Millon auctions off 120 pieces of Pre-Columbian Mexican art in Paris, over the protests of
Ambassador Juan Manuel Gómez Robledo. The art is believed to be stolen or counterfeit. •
September 20: Hundreds of young people in Mexico City join their counterparts across the world in
demonstrations against climate change. •
September 21:
Día Nacional de Lucha Libre (National Day of Freestyle Wrestling) • Pedro Salmerón Sanginés resigns as director general of the
National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolution; INEHRM, a post he had held since 2013. He cited right-wing opposition and has been replaced by Felipe Arturo Ávila Espinosa. • President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announces that the anti-cancer medicine bought from France has arrived in the country. • September 22: Following
Tropical Storm Lorena, the
Coordinación Nacional de Protección Civil declares a state of emergency in
La Paz and
Los Cabos, Baja California Sur. The storm also caused flooding in Guerrero, Michoacan, Colima, and Jalisco. • September 23: On behalf of the government of Mexico, President Lopez Obardor apologizes to Martha Camacho Loaiza, leader of the communist guerrilla group
Liga Comunista 23 de septiembre, who was tortured in
1977. • September 25:
Oaxaca decriminalizes
abortion. • September 26: • Former attorney general of
Nayarit Edgar Veytia is condemned to twenty years of prison in the United States for drug dealing. • A group of soldiers are ambushed in
Leonardo Bravo, Guerrero; three soldiers killed. President Lopez Obrador clarifies that the vandals are not left-wing
anarchists but right-wing conservatives. •
September 27: Culmination of the
Mexican War of Independence, 1821 • Mswati lll, king of
Swaziland, in
Southern Africa, arrives at
Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, with his 14 wives and a contingent of 70. • September 28: • Two killed and two others are injured in an accident on the
Quimera roller coaster in the
La Feria Chapultepec Mágico, Mexico City. •
Pope Francis announces the creation of three new
dioceses:
Azcapotzalco,
Iztapalapa, and
Xochimilco. •
September 28 and
September 29: 1st wine festival in
Querétaro. •
September 30: Birthday of
José María Morelos, (b. 1765)
October • October:
María Lorena Ramírez,
Rarámuri ultra-marathon runner and native of the
Sierra Tarahumara in
Chihuahua is featured on the cover of
Vogue Mexico. • October – November: The
San Sebastián International Film Festival in
northern Spain will honor Mexican director
Roberto Gavaldón, whose
1960 movie
Macario was the first Mexican film to win an
Academy Award. • October 1 •
Arturo González Cruz of
MORENA is sworn in as the new municipal president of
Tijuana, Baja California. •
General Motors temporarily lays off 6,000 workers in
Silao, Guanajuato due to
strike in the United States. • October 3 • Justice
Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza resigns from the
National Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) after it is revealed that his banks accounts are being investigated by the
National Crime Agency in the UK and the
United States Department of the Treasury. •
Flecha Roja bus line announces the suspension of services along the Mexico City-
Santiago Tianguistenco, State of Mexico, route, following the hijacking of their buses by students at the
Escuela Normal Rural Lázaro Cárdenas de San José Tenería. Four other routes are also affected. •
Jesús Orta resigns his position as
Secretaría de Seguridad Ciudadana (Secretary of Public Security) and is replaced by
Omar García Harfuch, chief of the investigative division.
Proceso magazine notes that García Harfuch has been investigated by the U.S. government and linked to both the
Ayotzinapa kidnapping case and the
Guerreros Unidos drug cartel. •
October 4 • Actress
Yalitza Aparicio is named
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous peoples. • Three more individuals implicated in the
Ayotzinapa kidnapping case are freed. Judge Ventura Ramos has freed 29 prisoners implicated in the case in the past month. •
Las Comisiones Unidas de Procuración y Administración de Justicia y de Igualdad de Género (The United Commissions for the Procuration and Administration of Justice and Gender Equality) in
Puebla vote against decriminalization of
abortion and legalization of
same-sex marriage. The penalty for abortion is reduced from five to one year. • Organizers of the
Premio Batuta de México (Baton Prize of Mexico) withdraw
Placido Domingo's name just two days prior to giving him the prize due to charges of sexual harassment. • October 7:
Mérida, Yucatán is chosen by
Readers’ Choice Awards as the "best small city in the world." • October 8: 10,000 taxi drivers block traffic for twelve hours in a protest against
Uber and
Cabify in Mexico City. • October 10:
Nadine Gasman, head of the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inmujeres) reports that 267 women and girls are victims of violence every day in Mexico. • October 11–20: XIX International Book Fair in the Zocolo of Mexico City. • October 11 • The
Attorney General of Mexico arrests three members of a sex-trafficking ring in
Tenancingo Municipality, Tlaxcala. • At least nine people are killed and eight injured as a train and bus crash in
San Juan del Río, Querétaro. • President Lopez Obrador says that a magistrate from the 1st circuit of the
Supreme Court (SCJN) is being investigated because of an MXN $80 million bank deposit.
Milenio reports it is Judge
Jorge Arturo Camero Ocampo. •
October 12:
Dia de la Raza • October 13 •
Popocatépetl volcano has produced one explosion, 117 exhalations, and 709 minutes (almost 12 hours) of quaking in a 24-hour period. Gas and light ash have been seen, and the area remains in "Amarillo Fase 2" alert. • Voters in
Baja California express their opinions on whether to extend Governor
Jaime Bonilla's term from two to five years. According to a poll, 84.25% (53,419 voters) approve the five-year term. • 800 people organized by the Canadian group "Choir!Choir!Choir!" sing
With a Little Help from My Friends and other songs by
The Beatles on the border near Tijuana as a protest against U.S. immigration policy. •
October 14: At least 14 police officers are ambushed and murdered by 30 armed members of the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel in
Aguililla, Michoacan. • October 15 •
Andorra seizes US$83.1 million belonging to
Juan Ramón Collado, lawyer of former President
Enrique Peña Nieto. Collado was arrested for money laundering on July 9. • Fourteen armed civilians and one soldier are killed in a battle in
Tepochica, Guerrero. • October 16 • Nine executions attributed to the
Cártel del Noroeste have been reported in
Tamaulipas in 24-hours. •
Carlos Romero Deschamps, leader of the
Sindicato de Trabajadores Petroleros de la República Mexicana (PEMEX employees' union) has resigned after being accused of illegal enrichment. • October 17 • The arrest of
Ovidio Guzmán López, son of
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, sets off several gun battles in
Culiacán, Sinaloa. Hours later he is freed, and President Lopez Obrador says he supports the decision in order to prevent more bloodshed. • Construction of the new "General Felipe Ángeles" airport in
Zumpango, State of Mexico, begins; the airport is scheduled to open on March 21,
2022. It is expected to cost MXN $75 billion (US$3.9 billion). • October 19 — October 20:
Harry Potter festival in Mexico City. • October 20 • Eduardo Arturo Bailleres Mendoza is relieved as warden of the penitentiary in
Culiacán after 49 prisoners escaped on October 17. He had been in charge for 11 months. • Five Mexican chefs are awarded
Michelin Stars: Indra Carrillo, "La Condessa" in Paris; Paco Mendez, "Hoja Santa" in Barcelona; Cosme Aguilar, "Casa de Enrique" in New York; Roberto Ruiz, "Punto MX" in Madrid; and Carlos Gaytan, "Ha" in Xcaret. • October 22 • Activists on social media call for a boycott of
Kimberly-Clark de México paper products after CEO Claudio González X. Laporte reports the company will no longer invest in Mexico. • A group of mayors who belong to opposition parties (PAN, PRI, and PRD) was repelled with tear gas when they tried to force their way into the
National Palace for a meeting with President Lopez Obrador. •
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra is awarded the
Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor, only to give it to President Lopez Obardor until the disappearances of "our loved ones" are resolved. • Twenty-one mayors from
Chiapas resign from
PRI,
PVEM,
PRD, and local political parties to join
Morena. • October 25 • Fires in
Baja California kill four, damage 200 homes, and burn 7,600 hectares (18,800 acres) of grassland. • 100,000 pay homage to the late
José José during a rainstorm in the
Zócalo of Mexico City. • October 26 • 6,000
General Motors auto workers temporarily laid off in
Silao, Guanajuato and
Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, due to a strike in the United States, go back to work. • Police find 42 skulls and other bones in a narco-tunnel in
Tepito,
Colonia Morelos,
Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City. Police also are revising the charges against 27 people who were arrested but then released by a judge on October 22. •
October 27 – Daylight saving time ends; turn clocks back one hour. •
Lewis Hamilton wins the
Grand Prix of Mexico. • October 28 – Karime Macías Tubilla, wife of former
governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte, is detained in London. • October 29 – A children's party in
Iztatapala is shot up, resulting in two adults killed and eight children injured. • October 30 – A riot at Atlacholoaya penitentiary in
Xochitepec, Morelos, leaves six dead, including "El Ray", a leader of the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel; 15 are injured. • October 31 • Two children are shot while
trick-or-treating in
Guadalajara, Jalisco. Three young children and their adult accomanant are shot to death while
Trick-or-treating in
Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico. • Police free a toll booth from 30 people who were charging drivers MXN $200-$500 in
Huimanguillo, Tabasco. One killed and nine arrested. • An international human trafficking ring is taken down and 387 migrants are freed.
November • November 1 • The
Bank of Mexico reports that
transfer payments from Mexicans living overseas increased by 13.3% in September 2019 compared to September 2018, and by 9.3% in total for the first nine months of the year. This represents US$26.98 billion (MXN $515.6 billion). •
November 2:
Day of the Dead (Saturday) • Thousands participate in
Acatrina Fest 2019 parade in
Acapulco, Guerrero. • November 2–7: The
Estadio de Béisbol Charros de Jalisco y Atletismo in
Zapopan hosts the
2019 WBSC Premier12 baseball championship. • November 3 • Hundreds of people, mostly women, march in Mexico City against
femicide. • At least five people are killed in a shooting in a
tianguis de autos (bazaar of used cars) in
Uruapan, Michoacan. • November 4 – A woman and her four minor children, members of the
LeBaron order, are burned alive while driving to
Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. • November 5 • After the death toll in the
attack on the LeBaron family along the border of Sonora and Chihuahua, U.S. President
Donald Trump offers to send troops to Mexico to fight a war against drug cartels. President Lopez Obrador turns him down, saying Mexico will act
para hacer justicia ("to do justice"). Five children injured in the attack are sent to a hospital in the United States. • The bank debt acquired by President
Ernesto Zedillo in
1994 reaches MXN $97,500,000 pesos per day, reaching US$1,032,236,000, according to
Fobaproa ("Banking Fund for the Protection of Savings"). This represents a 1.25% increase in real terms over the last nine months, not counting inflation. • A police officer in
Culiacan, Sinaloa, is killed after being shot 155 times. • November 6 • Three Mexican tourists are stabbed while visiting an archaeological site in
Jordan; one is in serious condition. • The
Congress of the Union approves reforms to the
Constitution in terms of revocation of mandate and popular consultation. •
Emirates Airlines gets permission to begin Mexico City—
Barcelona—
Dubai flights on December 9. • The
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia announces the discovery of unique, 12,000 or 13,000-year-old traps for
mammoths in
Tultepec, State of Mexico. • In retaliation for police action inside a penitateniary, 10 people are killed and vehicles are burned by
Los Mexicles street gang in
Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua. Another five vehicles are burned the next day. • November 7 • Gymnast
Alexa Moreno wins the
Premio Nacional de Deportes 2019 (National Sports Prize 2019) in the "non-professional" category for her achievements in the vault and for qualifying for the
2020 Olympics in Tokyo. • November 8 • Three police officers killed in
Acapulco, Guerrero. • Five police killed and one wounded in
San Vicente Coatlán, Oaxaca. • November 9 • An American teenager is arrested in
Nogales, Sonora for gunrunning into Mexico. • 100 members of the
LeBarón family leave their homes in northern Mexico. • November 10 •
Reforma reports that Saul Monreal, mayor of
Fresnillo, Zacatecas, spent US$70,000 (MXN $1.3 million) in public money to celebrate his daughter's 15th birthday. Monreal is the youngest brother of
Ricardo Monreal Ávila, coordinator of National Regeneration Movement (Morena) in the Senate. • Hackers infiltrate the
Pemex computer systems, demanding US$5 million in
Bicoins. • November 11 •
Evo Morales, former president of
Bolivia, accepts asylum in Mexico. • The
World Health Organization declares Mexico the first country in the world to be free from dog-transmitted
rabies. The disease is still transmitted by wild animals. • Armed members of
Los Dumbos cartel burn two cars and block the Chilpancingo-Acapulco highway near
Xaltianguis, Guerrero. • The
Communist Party of Mexico issues a declaration on its 100th anniversary. • Members of the
National Action Party insist that
Rosario Piedra Ibarra should not be allowed to take the oath as president of the
National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) due to voting irregularities in the Senate. A video of Senator
Xóchitl Gálvez using violence on November 13 to prevent Ibarra's swearing in circulates on social media. • November 12 –
Rosario Piedra Ibarra is sworn in as president of the
National Human Rights Commission (CNDH). Alberto Manuel Athie Gallo, another member of the National Human Rights Commission, resigns in protest. • November 14 • Seven killed, including one soldier, and three injured in shootout between the
Mexican Army and the
Cartel del Noreste in
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. • A shootout at a carlot in
Cuernavaca, Morelos, leaves three dead and one wounded. • Maribel Cervantes Guerrero,
head of the state police in the
State of Mexico, reports that several regional police commanders have pacted with organized crime leaders, allowing them to freedom to commit crimes. • José Carlos Ramos Ramos, the new police chief of
Celaya, Guanajuato, is attacked by armed men; one bodyguard killed and two injured. • Alejandro Vera, former rector of the
Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, UAEM, and his wife, María Elena Ávila, are kidnapped in
Morelos. They are rescued two days later. • November 16 – Sanctuaries for
Monarch butterflies open in
State of Mexico and
Michoacan. • November 17 • The
Mexico national under-17 football team places second to Brazil in a disputed game. • The
Mexico national baseball team qualifies for the
2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo by defeating the United States, 3–2. • November 18 –
Revolution Day (Mexico) (celebrated Monday). • November 19 • Former Governor of Baja California,
Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, is accused of a MXN $1,200,000,000 (US$60 million) fraud and embezzlement involving 90 businesses and 40 "ghost companies." Governor
Jaime Bonilla Valdez says former governors
José Guadalupe Osuna Millán and
Eugenio Elorduy Walther should also be investigated. • An earthquake with a 6.3 MW with an epicenter 116 km northeast of
Puerto Madero strikes Chiapas. Minor damages are reported. • November 21 – Commandos attack the Hospital General de Salvatierra in
Guanajuato, leaving a patient's dismembered body in a nearby community. •
November 23 –
Mexican Navy Day • November 25 – Thousands march in Mexico City in demand of elimination of violence against women. 200 women demonstrate in
Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, State of México. • November 27 – The
National Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) rules that private schools cannot withhold grades or exams of students who have unpaid debts. • November 29 • Four police officers and seven armed civilians, members of the
Cartel del Norte, are killed in a shootout in
Villa Unión, Coahuila. Six other police officers are injured. The death toll reaches 21 on December 1. • Two judges who freed the ex-husband of Abril Perez, a woman who was murdered in Mexico City on November 25, have been suspended.
December • December 1 • The oversold Knotfest 2019 music festival in the
Deportivo Oceanía Mexico City is canceled after violence breaks out after "Evanescense" fails to perform as scheduled. Unconfirmed deaths are reported. •
Adrián LeBarón leads 1,000 marchers in Mexico City against President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his policy of
Abrazos, no balazos (hugs not bullets). • Before a crowd of 140,000 supporters, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has fulfilled 89 of 100 campaign promises during a rally on the
Zócalo of Mexico City. • The Mexican government announced that several suspects had been arrested for the
LeBarón family massacre of November 4. • December 4 – The Congress of
Yucatan unanimously approves a measure requiring the teaching of the
Maya language in schools in the state. • December 5 – Margarita Ríos-Farjat is elected as a new justice of the
Supreme Court (SCJN). • December 8 – Foreign Secretary
Marcelo Ebrard recalls Mexican
Ambassador to Argentina Óscar Ricardo Valero Recio Becerra after Valero Recio is caught trying to steal an MXN $189 (US$10) book from a Buenos Aires bookstore. • December 9 – Jorge Zapata, grandson of
Emiliano Zapata, sues painter
Fabián Cháirez, the
Secretariat of Culture, and the
Palacio de Bellas Artes over a 2014 painting that depicts the Revolutionary general as wearing a pink hat and high heels. The following day, four groups of peasants force their way into Bellas Artes and try to burn the painting. Members of the LGBQT community defend the painting. • December 10 –
Genaro García Luna,
Secretary of Public Security (2006-2012) under President
Felipe Calderon is arrested in Dallas, Texas, accused of accepting cocaine trafficking and receiving bribes of between US$3 million and $5 million from
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. •
December 12:
Our Lady of Guadalupe (Thursday) Five million
pilgrims visit the
basilica in Mexico City. • December 13 –
Cristina Pacheco, anchor for "Once Noticias," wins the
Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2018 (National Journalism Award 2018). •
December 13 & 15: The
Orlando Magic of the
National Basketball Association will play regular-season games against the
Chicago Bulls and the
Utah Jazz at the
Mexico City Arena in Mexico City • December 15: Referendum on the
Mayan Train in Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo. 92.3% (93,142) of the voters who participated voted "yes" and 7.4% (7,517) voted "no", with 268 of 269 voting districts reporting. •
December 16 •
Las Posadas begin (Monday) • Former President
Felipe Calderón and his wife,
Margarita Zavala manage to register their new political party,
Mexico Libre ("Free Mexico"). • The
Comisión de Justicia (Justice Commission) of
Morena demands the expulsion of
Lilly Téllez from her position as a member of the party's
Senate caucus. • December 19 – Diverse narco-messages suggest a war between competing
drug cartels in
Querétaro. • December 21 – The
Legion of Christ accepts responsibility for 175 cases of child sexual abuse by 33 priests, including 60 minors who were abused by the organization's founder,
Marcial Maciel. • December 22 –
National Action Party (PAN) demands an updated report on the
2018 Puebla helicopter crash that took the lives of Puebla Governor
Martha Érika Alonso, her husband, and three others. • December 23 • Actors, producers, and painters demonstrate outside the
National Palace demanding they be paid for their work. "We cannot live on applause!" they shout. • The
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs calls on the government of
Bolivia to respect the
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and to end its excessive vigilance of the Mexican Embassy in
La Paz. •
December 25:
Christmas Day (Wednesday) • Two are killed in an electrical fire at
La Merced Market in Mexico City. This comes just three days after a similar fire destroyed the San Cosme market in
Cuauhtémoc borough. In December 1988, 60 people were killed at
La Merced in a
fireworks disaster. • December 26 • A judge refuses to grant legal protection to
Rosario Robles against impeachment. • According to Andrés García Aguayo, a researcher at the
UNAM, 53% of the
amphibians in Mexico are in danger of extinction. • At least 250 families are evacuated due to a gas leak in
Tuxpan, Veracruz. • December 27 – A 1,000-year-old
Maya palace is discovered in
Kulubá, Yucatan. • December 28 – For the second time in just a year, a television series is recorded in a protected area of
Xochimilco, Mexico City. • December 29 –
Rayados of Monterrey wins their fifth national soccer championship in the
Liga MX. • December 30 – The
lime extracting company "Cales y Morteros del Grijalva, SA de CV." is closed for damaging the environment over a period of 50 years in the
Sumidero Canyon in
Chiapa de Corzo, Chiapas. • December 31 • At least five vehicles were burned in
Villahermosa, Tabasco, in demand of the release of Trinidad Alberto de la Cruz Miranda, (“El Pelón de Playas del Rosario”) and four other members of his drug cartel. • A riot in the prison in
Cieneguillas,
Zacatecas leaves 16 dead and five injured. ==Awards==