2020 in Mexico

Incumbents

President and cabinet

• President: Andres Manuel López Obrador
• Interior Secretary : Olga María del Carmen Sánchez Cordero
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs : Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón
• Secretary of the Treasury : Arturo Herrera
• Secretary of Economy : Graciela Márquez Colín
• Secretary of Energy : Norma Rocío Nahle García
• Secretary of Agriculture : Víctor Villalobos
• Secretary of Labor : Luisa María Alcalde Luján
• Education Secretary : Esteban Moctezuma
• Communictions Secretary
• *Javier Jiménez Espriú
• *Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal
• Secretary of the Environment : Víctor Manuel Toledo
• Tourism Secretary : Miguel Torruco Marqués
• Secretary of the Civil Service : Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros
• Secretary of Health : Jorge Alcocer Varela
• Secretary of Agrarian Development and Urban Planning : Román Guillermo Meyer
• Secretary of Welfare: María Luisa Albores González
• Secretary of Culture : Alejandra Frausto Guerrero
• Secretary of Defense : Luis Cresencio Sandoval
• Secretary of Navy: José Rafael Ojeda Durán
• Secretary of Security: Alfonso Durazo Montaño
• Attorney General of Mexico : Alejandro Gertz Manero

  Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea

  Governors

• Aguascalientes: Martín Orozco Sandoval
• Baja California: Jaime Bonilla The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation held that the so-called Ley Bonilla was unconstitutional, meaning Bonilla's term would end in 2021.
• Baja California Sur: Carlos Mendoza Davis
• Campeche: Carlos Miguel Aysa González acting governor
• Chiapas: Rutilio Escandón
• Chihuahua: Javier Corral Jurado
• Coahuila: Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís
• Colima: José Ignacio Peralta
• Durango: José Rosas Aispuro
• Guanajuato: Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo
• Guerrero: Héctor Astudillo Flores
• Hidalgo: Omar Fayad
• Jalisco: Enrique Alfaro Ramírez
• Mexico City: Claudia Sheinbaum
• México : Alfredo del Mazo Maza
• Michoacán: Silvano Aureoles Conejo
• Morelos: Cuauhtémoc Blanco
• Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García
• Nuevo León: Jaime Rodríguez Calderón
• Oaxaca: Alejandro Murat Hinojosa
• Puebla: Miguel Barbosa Huerta,
• Querétaro: Francisco Domínguez Servién
• Quintana Roo: Carlos Joaquín González
• San Luis Potosí: Juan Manuel Carreras
• Sinaloa: Quirino Ordaz Coppel
• Sonora: Claudia Pavlovich Arellano
• Tabasco: Adán Augusto López Hernández
• Tamaulipas: Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca
• Tlaxcala: Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez
• Veracruz: Cuitláhuac García Jiménez
• Yucatán: Mauricio Vila Dosal
• Zacatecas: Alejandro Tello Cristerna

  LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

President of the Chamber of Deputies

Monthly events

January

• January 1 - New Year's Day
• *Tax changes designed to increase income for the Office for the Treasury and Public Credit take effect.
• *The minimum wage increases 20%, from MXN $102.68 to $123.22 daily. This is still lower than in Brazil and Colombia, where per capita income is similar.
• January 2
• *Reuters reports that Mexican citizens who seek asylum in the United States will be sent to Guatemala.
• *The first femicide of the year is reported in Aquismón, San Luis Potosi.
• *A second riot at the prison in Cieneguillas, Zacatecas leaves one dead in addition to the 16 inmates who were killed on December 31, 2019.
• January 3
• *México names Edmundo Font new interim Chargé d'affaires for Bolivia.
• *President Andrés Manuel López Obrador requests the liberation of Julian Assange.
• January 4 – An earthquake with a magnitude 5.9 and an epicenter in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca was felt in at least states: Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Puebla, Morelos, State of México, and Mexico City. No damage is reported.
• January 5 – January 26: Mérida Fest 2020, Mérida, Yucatán
• January 6
• *Epiphany
• *President López Obrador announces that construction of 1,350 branches of the Banco de Bienestar has begun.
• *Internet for All, part of the Federal Electricity Commission, begins operations with a proposed budget of MXN $3 billion in 2020 and a planned completion date of 2022.
• *Margarita Ríos-Farjat becomes a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
• January 7
• *The Office for the Treasury and Public Credit sells bonds worth US $2.3 billion.
• *At least seven people are killed and 35 injured when a train and a bus crash in Vícam, Guaymas, Sonora.
• January 8
• *Arias Consultores releases a poll that describes the best and worst governors. Sinaloa governor Quirino Ordaz Coppel is chosen best, while Puebla governor L. Miguel Barbosa Huerta is declared the worst.
• *Mexico becomes president pro tempore of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
• January 9
• *Popocateptl volcano emits 3 km of smoke. On January 7 and 8, the volcano emitted 155 exhalations, 198 minutes of shaking, and three earthquakes.
• *AMLO promises that obesity will be combatted by a nutrition campaign, not through new taxes.
• January 10
• *A teacher is killed and four people are wounded in the Colegio Cervantes shooting in Torreón, Coahuila. The eleven-year-old shooter committed suicide.
• *A 21-year-old man is arrested and charged with terrorism for using pepper spray in several stores in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
• January 10 – February 4: Leon State Fair, León, Guanajuato
• January 11
• *The National Institute of Anthropology and History requests the Attorney General to sue to prohibit an auction of 28 Mexican archaeological treasures by French auctioneer "Millon de París" on January 22. The Secretariat of Foreign Affairs also plans to ask the French government to intervene.
• *Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez says Jalisco will not participate in the Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar .
• *Activists place hundreds of red shoes in Mexico City's Zócalo to protest the murders of an average ten women and girls daily; fewer than 10% are resolved.
• *Mexico City imposes a ban on plastic bags.
• January 12 – President Lopez Obrador meets with members of the LeBaron family in Bavispe, Sonora. AMLO promises to erect a monument in La Mora, Sonora in honor of the nine family members killed. Protesters accused Julián LeBarón of stealing land and water.
• January 13
• *Secretary of Education Esteban Moctezuma proposes a new scheme for Operativo Mochilla wherein parents will be responsible for revising the backpacks of children and staff at schools so as to prevent the entry of guns and other contraband.
• *Governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco of Morelos says that at least 180 police officers are being investigated for ties to organized crime and drug trafficking.
• *China announces that two of its banks will lend US $600 million for the construction of the Dos Bocas refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco. Energy Secretary Rocío Nahle makes it clear that the refinery will be built with public funds, but that contractors may borrow money from China or other countries.
• January 14
• *Despite confessing to abusing several minors, Fernando Martínez Suárez will remain a member of the Legion of Christ but he will not perform priestly duties.
• *The presidential airplane has been returned to Mexico after the government tried to sell it in the United States for a year at a cost of US $1.5 million in maintenance. It may be rented out or bartered for needed goods. 19 other planes and nine helicopters will be auctioned off, with the hopes of raising US $1 billion.
• *The Supreme Court rules that National Institute of Statistics and Geography can ignore the ban against paying its executives more than the President of Mexico.
• January 16
• *Two earthquakes of 5.3 and 4.9 respectively, hit at least five municipalities in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca. Slight damages but no injuries are reported. There have been 679 earthquakes in Oaxaca this year.
• *U.S. Attorney General William Barr visits Mexico to discuss money laundering, arms trafficking, and drug trafficking.
• *A commando consisting of 150 men armed with assault rifles burn 22 homes and seven vehicles and kidnap five people in two towns in Madera Municipality, Chihuahua.
• January 17
• *AMLO offers 4,000 jobs to Central American immigrants.
• *Secretariat of the Interior announces it will build a memorial for the 137 victims of the 2019 pipeline explosion in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo. Each family was compensated with MXN $15,000.
• January 18
• *The office of the attorney general of Oaxaca reports that investigation into the acid-attack on saxophonist María Elena Ríos Ortiz has finished. Governor Alejandro Murat says there is an arrest warrant for former deputy Juan Vera Carrizal.
• *Mexico stops thousands of Honduran immigrants on the border with Guatemala.
• January 19
• *Between 1,500 and 2,000 undocumented immigrants from Honduras try to cross the Suchiate River in Chiapas, but are stopped by the National Guard. Groups of 20 or 30 were allowed to try to regularize their immigration status and obtain employment.
• *1,000 supporters of "Reforestación Extrema" demonstrate in La Huasteca-Nuevo Leon.
• *The fire at the Cuemanco Plant Market in Xochimilco, Mexico City, is the fifth market fire in a month.
• January 20
• *Thousands of Honduran migrants and asylum-seekers battle with Mexican National Guard and try to force their way across the Suchiate River.
• *Isatech technology of Monterrey offers to pay US $130 million for the presidential plane in order to use it for commercial purposes and to make it available to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• *22,923 police officers and 2,375 vehicles participate in Mexico City's first Macrosimulacro.
• *New data show that homicides in Mexico in 2019 reached a record level.
• January 21
• *A popular poll by U.S. News & World Report places Mexico as the second most corrupt country in the world; Colombia is number one.
• *Eighteen states have signed up for the new health care program, Insabi.
• January 22
• *Airports in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Cancun, where flights arrive directly from China, are on alert for Coronavirus disease 2019.
• *Nineteen children between six and fifteen march as community police by the Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias-Pueblos Fundadores in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero. Those over 12 have been issued.22 caliber rifles while younger ones carry sticks.
• January 24
• *Tijuana International Airport joins other airports on alert against the coronavirus from China.
• *Dulce Susana Jacobo Cruz, a student at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia , complains of racist comments and torture of children when she and a group of migrants were detained by authorities at the Estación Migratoria of Ciudad Industrial, Villahermosa, Tabasco.
• *Parents of children with cancer protest for the third day in a row because of a lack of medicine.
• *In Guerrero, officials announce that children as young as 14 have been recruited to assist local police in local law enforcement efforts. About 20 children have been recruited for an indigenous community police force in western Mexico following a deadly attack blamed on a drug cartel. Some of the children, aged between eight and 14, were handed rifles while others paraded with sticks on a road in the town of Chilapa in Guerrero state.
• *Calm returns to the Mexico-Guatemala border after 800 Honduran immigrants were arrested on January 23.
• January 26 – The Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos reports that 2019 saw 35% more complaints about a lack of medicine and negligence than in 2018.
• January 27
• *Twelve governors, all member of PRI, agree to support Insabi.
• *At least sixty are killed in violence over the weekend of January 24–26 in the state of Guanajuato.
• *The Supreme Court declares that it is unconstitutional to require a Carta de No-Antecedentes Penales as a prerequisite for employment.
• January 28 – Judge Francisco Castillo González orders a MXN $10 million lien against journalist Sergio Aguayo and his property for "moral damage" of former Coahuila governor Humberto Moreira in an editorial Aguayo wrote for Reforma in 2016. Journalists and human rights activists unite in solidarity with Aguayo.
• January 29 – Three notorious criminals, one in the process of being extradited to the United States, escape from the Reclusorio Sur in Mexico City.
• January 30
• *INEGI reports that the Mexican economy contracted by 0.1% in 2019 after growth of just over 2% in 2018.
• *Naela Berenice Razo López, an engineering physics graduate of the Autonomous University of Queretaro wins the John Bacall Physics Prize from Princeton University and will spend the summer semester at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark.
• *Seven municipal police officers, including the chief of police, are arrested for a November 2019 murder in Cuitzeo, Michoacan.

  February

• February 1
• *AMLO says his administration has rescued Pemex from bankruptcy and discusses other energy issues while in Merida, Yucatan.
• *A Chinese tourist who passed through Mexico City is confirmed to be infected with Coronavirus disease 2019. Nine cases of possible infection are being monitored, but as of today, there are no confirmed cases in Mexico.
• *The Sinaloa Cartel guards the Culiacán Cathedral in Sinaloa as the daughter of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán marries the nephew of Margarita Cázares, la "Emperatriz del Narco". Only members of the cartel are allowed to attend.
• February 2 – Candlemas The Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares in Coyoacán reports that a record-breaking 126,000 attended the 27th Feria del Tamal in one week.
• February 3
• *Constitution Day
• *At least eight people including one minor are killed in a shooting at a video-arcade in Uruapan, Michoacan. The unrest seems to be related to the arrest on January 31 of Luis Felipe Barragán, the presumed leader of Los Viagra.
• February 4 – The National data protection authority orders the Ministry of Health to publicize all information about the cost and available of cancer medicine.
• February 5
• *Farmers in Chihuahua fight with the National Guard over water payments to the United States. Earlier this week farmers in Ojinaga Municipality broke open locks on a dam.
• *AMLO says he wants to eliminate puentes in the academic calendar beginning July 2020 so that children will learn and appreciate the historic importance of holidays.
• *Fifteen schools and colleges of the UNAM are now on strike in protest of violence against women.
• February 5 to 9 – Contemporary Art Week at four locations in Mexico City Art critic Avelina Lésper destroyed Gabriel Rico's Nimble and sinister tricks, worth US $20,000, with a can of soda pop. The fair in "Zona Macro" is considered the most important contemporary art fair in Latin America.
• February 6
• *Activists from Mexico join their African counterparts to support the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
• *In a visit to the Mexican Senate, the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei suggests the two countries construct Muros de Prosperidad in the form of an investment bank in the Mexican states of Chiapas and Tabasco and the Guatemalan departments of San Marcos, Quiché, and Huehuetenango in order to stem migration.
• *Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that Russia is in talks to sell military helicopters to Mexico. Hugo Rodriguez of the United States Department of State says that Mexico could be subject to sanctions if the sale goes forward.
• February 9 – Strikes in five schools and colleges of the National Autonomous University of Mexico that were taken over to protest sexual harassment and violence have been returned to university authorities. Others continue in the hands of protesters, and an interuniversity assembly has been convoked for February 10.
• February 10 – The Attorney General of Mexico promises that the law against femicide will not disappear, but that the laws must be reformed to protect women and children. He notes that homicides have increased by 35% in the last five years, but femicides have increased by 137% in the same period of time.
• February 11 – The diffusion on social media of graphic photographs of the dismembered cadaver of Ingrid Escamilla, victim of a brutal femicide, disturbs the nation. The Ministry of Home Affairs promises an investigation. The sighting is later confirmed by the National Civil Protection Coordination, stating that no damage was reported.
• February 12
• *Former head of Pemex Emilio Lozoya Austin is arrested in Málaga, Spain.
• *At a supper for the 200 most important business leaders in the country, guests were pressured to commit to buying blocks of raffle tickets for the Presidential airplane.
• February 12–16: San Miguel Writers' Conference & Literary Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
• *The Banco de México cuts interest rates for the fifth time in a year.
• February 14 – Family members of victims of violence against women and feminists protest the President's silence on the issue by painting the walls and doors of the National Palace. AMLO responds "No soy un presidente surgido de la élite, insensible, simulador. Estamos haciendo todo lo que nos corresponde, y se va seguir informando y deseo con toda mi alma de que se reduzca la violencia y que no se agreda a las mujeres, eso es lo que deseo."
• February 15
• *Thousands protest against femicide in Mexico City and other parts of the country. The naked body of an unidentified girl between 10 and 14 is found in a plastic garbage bag wrapped in a sack in Tláhuac, Mexico City.
• *The government of Jalisco launches an investigation into the source of heavy metals and other pollutants in the Grande de Santiago River, which feeds the once-spectacular Juanacatlán Falls.
• February 16 – Ten Mexicans who were evacuated from China to Paris due to the COVID-19 pandemic return to Mexico after a 14-day quarantine in which they tested negative.
• February 18
• *Claudia Sheinbaum announces that the search for missing children will begin as soon as they are reported missing, instead of waiting for an official police complaint. The Autoridad Federal Educativa de la Ciudad de México explains that if a child is not picked up by a parent or guardian within twenty minutes of school closing time, the child should be taken to the local police.
• *Reforms against sexual harassment go into force at the UNAM.
• *The Mexican government will resume the search for 63 bodies lost in the 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster.
• *Multiple social media users in Mexico City, Morelos, State of Mexico, and Puebla report seeing a meteorite at 20:18 hours
• February 19
• *Mexican Army Day
• *Xcaret Park is named the best theme park in the world for the fourth year in a row by the Travvy Awards.
• *Mexican scientist Héctor Carera Fuentes is arrested at Miami International Airport for spying for Russia.
• February 19 – February 25: Carnaval de Veracruz
• February 20
• *Alfonso Durasno, Minister of Security, says that seven of ten weapons used by organized crime in Mexico are imported illegally from the United States.
• *Mexico bans the importation of e-cigarettes.
• February 21 – Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum promises that city employees who join the Woman's Strike on March 9 will not be penalized by the city government.
• February 23 – Lawyer Juan Collado, former husband of Leticia Calderón who has close ties to former presidents Calderón and Peña Nieto is formally accused of money laundering and association with organized crime.
• February 23 to February 25 – Carnaval de Mazatlán, Sinaloa
• February 24
• *Flag Day
• *A protest happens at Playa del Carmen over public access to a supposedly "private" beach.
• February 25
• *The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the parents of Sergio Hernandez Guereca cannot sue the U.S. Border Patrol for the teen's 2010 death. Mexican prosecutors had charged Agent Jesus Mesa Jr. with murder, but the U.S. government refused to extradite him.
• *120,000 students at Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla and Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla strike after three students are killed.
• February 26 – Mexican authorities refuse permission for a cruise ship registered in Malta to dock in Cozumel, Quintana Roo, because she carries a passenger presumed to be infected with Coronavirus disease 2019. The ship was previously denied access to ports in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. On February 27, AMLO reversed the ruling, saying it would be "inhuman" to prohibit people from disembarking.
• February 28
• *The first two Mexican confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been identified by the Health Ministry. Family contacts of the patients have been placed in isolation.
• *The National Human Rights Commission announces that its president, Rosario Piedra Ibarra, will receive MXN $159,227.83 monthly, some $5,000 more than what her predecessor, Luis Raúl González Pérez, received and $51,000 more than President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, despite a law that prohibits any government employee from earning more than the president. Despite the official policy of austerity, other top officials will also be paid more than López Obrador. The third and fourth cases were confirmed on February 29.
• *The Mexican stock market closes the week with a 4% decrease in value due to fears of Covid-19. The peso also loses 2% of its value.
• *Former Nayarit governor Roberto Sandoval Castañeda and his wife and children are banned from entering the United States due to corruption.
• February 28-March 1: Electric Daisy Carnival, Mexico City
• February 29 – An appeals court in San Francisco rules against the U.S. government's "stay in Mexico" policy for asylum seekers, although the ruling is stayed until March 2.

  March

• March 1
• *In a concession to the junk food industry, a judge from the Juzgado Séptimo de Distrito en Materia Administrativa rules that companies do not have to label the sugar and fat content of their products.
• *Patricia Rosalinda Trujillo Mariel, Operational Coordinator of the National Guard, is fired for corruption.
• March 3 – A study by Código Magenta reveals links between the company that collected signatures for Jaime Rodríguez Calderón during his 2018 presidential campaign and money laundering.
• March 4
• *Six bank accounts controlled by La Luz del Mundo are frozen by the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera because of sex scandals involving child pornography and sexual relations with minors.
• *The Ministry of Health reports 1,455 cases of dengue fever, a 104.6% increase over the same period in 2019.
• March 6
• *The airline Interjet is near bankruptcy as it owes the federal government MXN $3 billion and it is threatened by losses due to COVID-19. Meanwhile, AMLO proposes establishing a new airline in Mexico.
• *A shootout between police and members of an auto-theft gang leaves nine dead, including one police officer and a civilian bystander in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
• *Three people have died and 55 others require special medical attention after the Pemex hospital in Villahermosa, Tabasco, administers expired medicine.
• March 7
• *"Time for Women 2020" festival in Mexico City
• *Proceso says the government of the United States has evidence linking former presidents Peńa Nieto and Calderon and several generals and admirals to narcotics trafficking
• March 8 – 15,000 people participated in the Women's March in Monterrey. 80,000 march in Mexico City. Hundreds march in Tlaxcala; Ecatepec, State of Mexico; and Oaxaca.
• March 9
• *Women strike across the country, demanding an end to violence against women in Mexico. The CONCANACO estimates that the strike cost MXN $30 trillion, 15% more than the original estimate.
• *Crude oil prices fall to US $24.43 a barrel, the lowest price since 2016. The peso loses 4.83% of its value compared to the U.S. dollar, at $21.17/dollar, as the world worries about the coronavirus pandemic. The Mexican stock market fell 6%.
• March 10
• *The City of Mexico will publish the names, photographs, and other information about individuals convicted of sexual crimes, including femicide, human trafficking, sexual tourism, and abuses against minors.
• *It is revealed that the microphones discovered in the Senate of the Republic were paid for and installed by the National Action Party in 2011 and 2012, not by National Regeneration Movement. Senators from PAN accused Morena of spying on them and forced the Senate to be shut down last week.
• March 11
• *The United States Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration announce they have arrested more than alleged 600 members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
• *A train crash at the Tacubaya station of the Mexico City Metro leaves one dead and 41 people injured.
• March 13
• *AMLO signs a decree that the victims of the 2009 ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, will be compensated.
• *Evidence of the Mayan kingdom of Sak Tz'i is proven near Lacanja Tzeltal, Chiapas.
• *The Canadian Parliament approves the T-MEC.
• March 14
• *Some universities close, sporting events are canceled, and other large group events are canceled or rescheduled for a later date as Mexico enters Phase 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico. The Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit announced it was taking measures to prevent a 5% fall in gross domestic product.
• *Mexico City bans gatherings of groups of more than 1,000 people.
• March 14–15: Festival Vive Latino, Mexico City The festival goes on as scheduled, despite fears of the COVID-19 pandemic. Temperatures of the 70,000 people who attend each day are taken at the door and anti-bacterial gel is widely distributed. 26 cases of the virus are reported in Mexico, including 11 in Mexico City.
• March 16
• *216th anniversary of Benito Juárez's birthday
• *Deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell denies a charge by El Salvador president Nayib Bukele that Mexico let a dozen people with COVID-19 board a plane.
• *The Health Department reports 82 confirmed and 171 suspected cases of COVID-19.
• *The Catholic Episcopal Conference of Mexico recommends suspending masses and other large group gatherings. Priests can continue with private masses.
• *A group of four Mexicans from Tamaulipas who went to Cusco, Peru, on vacation cannot return to Mexico until April 2 because all flights have been canceled and the borders of Peru are closed. Citizens of Ecuador, El Salvador, Perú, and Chile are stuck at Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City.
• March 17
• *The Mexican Stock Exchange closed for 15 minutes this morning after dropping 7.12% upon opening. This also happened last March 12. After reopening, the market fell by 8%.
• *Interjet announces it will reduce its seating capacity by 40% as a health measure.
• March 18
• *82nd Anniversary of the oil expropriation
• *The first death from COVID-19 in Mexico is reported. The 41-year-old man attended a concert on March 3 and was hospitalized on March 9. He also had diabetes.
• *Twenty-five cases of measles are reported in Mexico City. The outbreak began in the Reclusario Norte last week.
• *Mexican crude oil prices fall to their lowest level since 2002.
• March 19
• *A group of protesters block downtown Cuernavaca.
• *Spring equinox
• March 20
• *U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces there will be restrictions on travel across the Mexico–United States border. Said restrictions would not apply to cargo.
• *A new report by the Mexican Centre for Environmental Rights shows that at least 83 land rights and environmental defenders were murdered in Mexico between 2012 and 2019. 40% of the 2019 incidents of harassment and murder were the responsibility of state officials such as police officers, national guard, and local prosecutors.
• *Mexico opposes the reelection of Luis Almagro as Secretary-General of the Organization of American States.
• *Mayor Juanita Romero of Nacozari de García Municipality, Sonora, declares a curfew, in effect until 20 April. Only the President of Mexico has the legal authority to declare such a declaration.
• March 21 – A Mexican Navy helicopter crashes during an anti-kidnapping operation in Zongolica, Veracruz. One police officer is killed and ten military personnel are injured.
• March 23
• *The World Health Organization says Mexico has entered Phase 2 of the coronavirus pandemic with 338 confirmed cases. This includes cases where the sick individuals did not have direct contact with someone who had recently been in another country.
• *76% 0f the voters in Mexicali, Baja California, voted that the partially-built brewery owned by Constellation Brands should not be completed. Only 36,781 people participated in the poll.
• *Mexico City reports 67 cases of measles, ten of whom had been vaccinated. There are 60 cases of COVID-19 in the city.
• March 24 – Mexico requests extradition of Emilio Lozoya.
• March 26 – Health officials report 5,983 cases and 102 deaths from influenza this year.
• March 27 – An investigation into the 2018 Puebla helicopter crash that killed Puebla governor Martha Érika Alonso and her husband, Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas was because of a stability problem due to poor maintenance.
• March 28
• *Seventy-three cases of measles have been confirmed in Mexico City and the State of Mexico. There are 196 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Mexico City and 119 infections in the State of Mexico. Nationally, there have been more than 2,000 murders since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in February.
• *World Wide Fund for Nature calls for people to join the Earth Hour at 8:30 p.m. local time.
• March 30 – The Mexican Financial Unit, led by Santiago Nieto, blocks US $1 billion in accounts controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel and Rafael Caro Quintero.
• March 31 – A riot in a migrant detention center in Tenosique, Tabasco, leaves a Guatemalan man dead and four people injured. The detainees were worried about a possible COVID-19 outbreak.

  April

• April 3
• *AMLO issues a decree to abolish 100 public trusts related to science and culture; the Fianance Ministry will receive the money directly. The move is expected to save MXN $250 billion.
• *A shoot-out between presumed drug dealers results in at least 19 deaths in Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua.
• *Mexico registers 2,585 homicides in March—the highest monthly figure since 1997—potentially breaking last year’s record total for murders.
• April 5
• *Daylight saving time begins, except along the northern border.
• *Palm Sunday, beginning of Holy Week
• *The traditional Passion Play of Iztapalapa begins inside the Iztapalapa Cathedral instead of parading the eight barrios of the borough. Extras who play Roman centurions, Pharisees, Jews, Nazarenes, and others are asked to stay home. In 2019, 5,000 people participated and 150 had speaking parts.
• April 7 – PAN conditions its support for less money for political parties on an abandoment of the Dos Bocas and Mayan Train infrastructure projects.
• April 8
• * President López Obrador says that fifteen large companies owe MMX $50,000,000,000 in taxes.
• *Charges of rape, child pornography, and human trafficking against Naasón Joaquín García, apostle of La Luz del Mundo church, are dropped for technical reasons.
• April 9 – Holy Thursday, ; banks closed
• April 10 – Good Friday, ; banks closed
• April 11 – Three doctors employed by IMSS are murdered in Tilzapotla, Puente de Ixtla, Morelos, during a presumed robbery.
• April 12 – The U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to expel over 10,000 Mexican and Central American asylum seekers to Mexico.
• April 13 – The number of COVID-19 infections in the country passes 5,000; there are 332 deaths.
• April 15 – A report by Agence France-Presse indicates that poppy growers in Guerrero are going out of business as cheaper fentanyl replaces poppies.
• April 16 – El Universal reports that several federal investigative units are looking into the wealth of former President Enrique Peña Nieto. AMLO says that any decision to prosecute will depend upon a referendum.
• April 20 – Drug cartels hand out aid packages of rice, pasta, cooking oil, and other household supplies. Javier Oliva Posada, defense specialist at the UNAM, commented that the packages reach a small number of people, but that they are designed to gain public and extend territory. Oliva Posada also noted that cartels are facing a shortage of supplies from China and a tightening of the border along the United States.
• April 21
• *106th Anniversary of the Heroic Defense of Veracruz
• *Mexico begins Phase 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
• *The Mexican Senate approves an amnesty law for minor offenders; it awaits the president's signature.
• *Some oil wells are closed as prices fall and Pemex's credit rating declines.
• April 22
• *The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime warns that Mexican cartels are branching into human trafficking and illegal logging.
• *The United States pressures Mexico to reopen factories with military contracts despite worker fears of contacting COVID-19. Lear Corporation acknowledges there have been coronavirus-related deaths among its 24,000 employees in Ciudad Juárez, but refuses to say how many.
• *CIVID-19 pandemic: The number of reported cases passes 10,000.
• April 23
• *CIVID-19 pandemic: Mexico surpsses the 1,000 deaths figure.
• *Grupo Alemán acknowledges the embargo by the Tax Administration Service in the facilities of the Miguel Alemán Valdés Foundation due to the MXN $549.3 million debt that Interjet has with the SAT. Interject is owned by Miguel Alemán Magnani, son of Miguel Alemán Velasco, former governor of Veracurz who is CEO of Galem. Interject and SAT have reached an agreement on payment.
• *Bank of Mexico issues a new MXN $20 commemorative coin to honor the 500th anniversary of the founding of city and port of Vercruz. It is smaller and lighter than previous coins and has twelve sides.
• *As Ricardo Ahued, administrator of the customs agency of the SAT, departs to run for the Seante, AMLO says corruption in the agency is a ″monster with 100 heads.″
• April 26 – Mexico′s National Institute of Migration empties the 65 migrant detention centers it has across the country by returning 3,653 people to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras in the hope of preventing outbreaks of COVID-19.
• April 28 – Marcelo Ebrard announces a new trade agreement with the European Community.
• April 29 – Police in Yajalón, Chiapas, open fire on people who were protesting against a checkpoint that left their community isolated. Residents of neighboring Tumbalá complain that the checkpoint make it impossible for them to access governmental and banking services and that it seemed to be related to a belief that Tumbalá has a high rate of coronavirus infection. Checkpoints have been installed in about 20% of Mexico's municipalities, which the federal government has declared illegal.
• April 30
• *Children's Day
• *Twenty-one deaths and 44 people hospitalized for drinking adulterated alcohol in Jalisco.

  May

• May 1
• *Labor Day
• *COVID-19 pandemic:
• **Mexico passes 20,000 infections of COVID-19.
• **Christopher Landau, the American Ambassador to Mexico, asserts that protecting the lives of Mexican workers is less important than making sure the American military machine operates without a glitch. Many maquiladoras along the border are being kept open to produce medical products for the U.S. market, even though the same products cannot be sold in Mexico. At least three people have died at European Schneider Electric, a factory in Tijuana, and 14 have died at an automobile parts factory in Ciudad Juarez. Three confirmed and five suspected COVID-19 deaths can be traced to Regal Beloit in Juarez.
• **Mexicanos contra la corrupción alleges that Léon Manuel Bartlett, son of Manuel Bartlett, head of the Comisión Federal de Electricidad, fraudulently tried to sell overpriced ventilators to the Mexican Social Security Institute in Hidalgo. AMLO promises an investigation but also says the charges are designed to discredit his government.
• * Luis Rodríguez Bucio of the internal affairs unit of the National Guard announces that it has fired one of its officers after pictures of him celebrating with known criminals in Puebla circulated on social media.
• *AMLO cancels expensive wind and solar energy projects.
• May 2
• *COVID-19 pandemic: Mexico surpasses 2,000 deaths due to the CIVID-19 pandemic on May 2.
• *The United States Department of Commerce announces that the Mexico-U.S. sugar agreement will continue for five years. Mexico faced accusations and fines for dumping, but these will be suspended. Mexico is allowed to export 421,901 metric tonnes of sugar to the United States.
• *61 forest fires are reported in fifteen states.
• May 3
• *Auctions of the house once owned by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, jewels, cars, and airplanes provide almost MXN $50 million for the Instituto Nacional para Devolver al Pueblo lo Robado.
• *Roberta S. Jacobson, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico insists that the Calderon government knew of the ties Genaro García Luna, Secretary of Public Security had with the Sinaloa Cartel. Calderon insists they did not.
• May 4
• *The Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare singles out Grupo Elektra, Autofin, and Hyplasa that refuse to close during the pandemic despite not providing essential services.
• *The arrest of Óscar Andrés Flores Ramírez, sets off a wave of homicides in Cuauhtémoc, and Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City, as extorcionists and drug dealers fight for control of La Union Tepito gang. 261 homicides have already been reported during the month of May, with Guanajuato, Jalisco. and State of Mexico leading the list.
• May 5
• *Cinco de Mayo, 158th anniversary of the Battle of Puebla The traditional parade in Puebla is canceled.
• *AMLO reports that remesas sent by Mexicans living abroad to their relatives grew 35% in March compared to those of February 2020.
• May 6
• *Eruption of Popocateptl.
• *Eleven prisoners escape from a prison in Zacatecas.
• May 8
• *COVID-9 pandemic: More than 3,000 deaths related to the pandemic are reported. The New York Times reports that the federal government is underreporting deaths in Mexico City; the federal government reports 700 deaths in the city while local officials have detected over 2,500.
• *Two people die and twelve tractor-trailers are damaged along Mexican Federal Highway 40D when an EF-2 tornado hits Apodaca, Nuevo León. Four houses are damaged by a tornado in Metepec, Zacatlán, Puebla on May 9.
• May 9 – The Sevicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria, part of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development, issues a warning about the Asian giant hornet. The agency notes there are 43,500 beekeepers with 172,000 beehives in Mexico.
• *267th anniversary of Miguel Hidalgo's birthday
• May 10 – Mother's Day Flower shops, bake shops, and cemeteries are closed to prevent large gatherings. July 10 is proposed as an alternative day of celebration.
• May 11 – The Supreme Court nullifies the Ley Bonilla, saying it was unconstitutional to increase the term of the Governor of Baja California from two to five years.
• May 12
• *AMLO signs an order that allows members of the Mexican Army and the Mexican Navy to participate in police activities for five years.
• *COVID-19 pandemic: More than 100 health workers are included among the 3,573 deaths from the virus.
• May 13 – COVID-19 pandemic: AMLO presents a three-stage plan to reopen the economy.
• May 15
• *Teacher's Day; schools closed
• At least 100 deaths have been reported due to adulterated alcohol in Morelos, Puebla, and Jalsco.
• *The Ministry of Energy stops private renewable energy projects while strengthening the Federal Electricity Commission.
• May 16 – CIVID-19 pandemic: Mexico reports more than 5,000 deaths.
• May 18
• *COVID-19 pandemic: Phase One of the government's plan to reopen the economy begins in 269 municipalities in 15 states. Mexico reports more than 50,000 cases.
• *A judge rules the conviction and nine-year prison sentence of former Verzcruz governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa; however, he rules in Duarte′s favor regarding the illegal adquisition of property.
• May 20 – Alfonso Durazo of the Secretariat of Security and Civilian Protection reports a 1.66% decrease in murders from March to April this year. The highest numbers were in Guanajuato, State of Mexico, Chihuahua, Michoacán, and Baja California. Femicides dropped 10.25% to 70, and robberies fell 33.29%.
• May 22
• *Remains of sixty mammoths are found during construction of the Mexico City Santa Lucía Airport.
• *A 6.1M_w earthquake is reported east-southeast of San José del Cabo, Baja California Sur. No damages and no tsunami were reported.
• May 25 – Walmart de México y Centroamérica agrees to pay MXN $8 billion in back taxes after being sued by the Tax Administration Service.
• May 25 – COVID-19 pandemic: Mexico reaches a record of 3,455 new cases and 501 new deaths in one day. The daily death rate approaches that of the United States, where there are 620 deaths in one day.
• May 27 – Jaquelina Escamilla, head of the Women's Institute in Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca, is fired for not broadcasting an anti-abortion video on the municipal media site. Abortion is legal in Oaxaca.
• May 28 – COVID-19 pandemic: Leaders of the LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress convoke their counterparts from nine other Latin American countries to discuss a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Latin America has 706,798 confirmed cases and 38,384 deaths. Maximiliano Reyes Zuñiga, Assistant Secretary of Foreign Affairs, proposes three measures to finance the recuperation of the region, including a 3% tax on billionaires.
• May 29 – FEMSA agrees to pay MXN $8.79 billion in back taxes.
• May 30
• *Seven people including a local drug lord are killed and two are injured at a party in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.
• *Hundreds of protesters, mostly driving luxury cars, participate in caravans in Mexico City and other cities to demand that AMLO resign.

  June

• June 1
• *National Merchant Marine Day
• *President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces a "new normal" of partial reopening with a road trip to Cancun and the inauguration of construction of the Mayan Train.
• *MORENA proposes an increase in taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugary soft drinks with the additional income going to support public health.
• *Foreign digital platforms such as Netflix and Spotify are required to withhold the value-added tax.
• June 2 – Working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Financial Intelligence Unit under Santiago Nieto freezes the bank accounts of 1,770 individuals, 167 businesses, and two trusts linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
• June 3
• *Senator Lilly Téllez quits Morena and joins National Action Party.
• *Meteorologists predict between seven and nine major hurricanes and between 15 and 19 named storms this year. Tropical Storm Cristobal makes landfall in Astata, Campeche, from Ciudad del Carmen and east of Frontera, Tabasco causing flooding and driving people from their homes. In addition to Campeche and Tabasco, the states of Yucatan, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, and Veracruz were affected.
• *Mexico surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 confirmed cases.
• June 4 – Violence breaks out during demonstrations in Jalisco to demand justice after the death of Giovanni López, 30, in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos.
• June 5 – Three police officers including the commissioner are arrested in connection with the May 5 beating death of Giovanni López.
• June 6 – Ten people are shot dead at a drug rehabilitation center in Irapuato, Guanajuato. Guanajuato reports 1,500 homicides this year.
• June 7
• *Seven police vehicles and a motorcycle are destroyed during a riot in San Pedro Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, while preventing the lynching of a driver who began shooting into a crowd following an auto accident.
• *With 117 murders, June 7 is the most violent day in Mexico this year.
• June 8
• *AMLO explains that a US$1 billion loan from the World Bank is not new debt but is a routine loan that was solicited last year.
• *The death toll from adulterated alcohol in Guerrero reaches 18.
• June 9
• *Official news agency Notimex shuts down until an agreement can be reached with striking workers.
• *Police in Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, Papaloapan Region, Oaxaca, shoot nine teenagers, one fatally, while buying softdrinks.
• June 10 – A health clinic and city hall are burned by armed inhabitants of Las Rosas, Chiapas after the death of a peasant, apparently from COVID-19.
• June 11
• *Police in San Pablo Huitzo, Oaxaca, hand over two young men accused of theft to local citizens; one is lynched. The state human rights commission has received 120 complaints of police abuse including two prisoner deaths this year.
• *The WHO reports a decrease in malaria in Latin America, including Mexico, although there are fears that many cases are going undetected as sick people stay home instead of going to hospitals.
• June 14 – Caravans of at between 50 and 900 luxury cars in 12 states demand that AMLO resign.
• June 16 – AMLO says that Mexico will sell fuel to Venezuela for humanitarian purposes if requested.
• June 17 – Mexico wins a two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council as well as a three-year term on the United Nations Economic and Social Council starting on January 1, 2021 during the 2020 U.N. Security Council Elections.
• June 20 – Summer solstice
• June 21 – Father's Day
• June 23 – Earthquake 7.4 centered two km northeast of Crucecita, Santa María Huatulco, Oaxaca at 10:29 a.m. with a depth of. Thirty aftershocks, including one of 5.4 were reported. Nine deaths and more than 2,000 damaged homes were reported in the state. 46 million people in a dozen states across the country felt the earthquake. There are reports that the alarm system did not work in some parts of Mexico City.
• June 24 - A giant dust storm from the Sahara Desert hits southeast Mexico.
• June 25
• *A six-hour gunfight for control of the Sinaloa drug cartel leaves 16 dead in Tepuche, Sinaloa.
• *The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel is accused of a bomb attempt at the Pemex refinery in Guanajuato after several of the cartel's leaders were arrested on June 20. The cartel is infamous for fuel theft and extortion.
• June 26 – Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch is wounded this morning after he and his bodyguards were attacked by 50 heavily armed members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Two police officers and a civilian woman were killed; García Harfuch is reported stable. Twelve of the attackers were arrested.

  July

• July 1
• *The free-trade agreement known as T-MEC is scheduled to take effect.
• *Twenty-eight people are killed in a mass shooting at a drug rehabilitation center in Irapuato, Guanajuato.
• *COVID-19: Mexico becomes the country with the seventh greatest number of deaths with 28.510, surpassing Spain. Mexico has 231,770 confirmed cases of infection, tenth in the world.
• July 3 – Quintana Roo Governor Carlos Joaquín González warns of the threat of Sargassum on the beaches of the Riviera Maya.
• July 4
• *COVID-19: Mexico surges to sixth place in the number of deaths with 30,366, surpassing France.
• *The Foreign Ministry announces that it formally adhers to the 189th International Labour Organization Convention on Domestic Workers.
• July 7 – Remains of a second student killed in the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping are found and identified in Cocula Municipality, Guerrero. The remains were not found in the waste dump where the bodies of the students were previously said to be burned.
• July 8
• *In his first foreign visit, President López Obrador flies commercially from Mexico City to Atlanta and then to Washington, D.C. to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss trade, investment, health issues, and combatting organized crime. AMLO and Trump sign a joint declaration pledging to build "a shared future of prosperity, security, and harmony."
• *César Duarte Jáquez, former governor of Chihuahua is arrested in Florida.
• *Paintings by Frida Kahlo and Rufino Tamayo are reported stolen from a private collection in Mexico City.
• *Two adult and three minor females are killed in an apparent reckong among gangs in El Gavillero, Nicolás Romero, State of Mexico.
• July 10 – 2014 Ayotzinapa kidnapping: Mexico seeks the arrest and extradition from Canada of Tomas Zeron, former head of the Criminal Investigation Agency that wrote the now-discredited "historical truth" about the kidnappings.
• July 11 – COVID-19 pandemic: Mexico surpasses the United Kingdom with 295,268 reported cases.
• July 12 – COVID-19 pandemic: Mexico becomes the country with the fourth greatest number of deaths in the world with 35,006, surpassing Italy.
• July 13
• *A network of eight to twelve doctors who worked with funeral homes to falsify death certificates related to both the September 19, 2017 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City is revealed.
• *The United States promises a $47 milion aid package to fight drug traffic in Mexico.
• July 16 – WHO warns about an alarming drop in childhood vaccinations in Mexico.
• July 17
• *President López Obrador announces that the Mexican Armed Forces are in charge of customs at border corssings and seaports to combat corruption and drug smuggling.
• *Emilio Lozoya Austin, former director of PEMEX accused of corruption, is extradicted from Spain and immediately hospitalized for anemia and problems with his esophagus.
• *The Comité de Sanidad Vegetal de Quintana Roo issues an alert for a plague of American grasshoppers that could also affect Campeche, Chiapas, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Yucatán.
• July 18
• *A video showing 20 armoured vehicles and heavily armed paramilitary soldiers shouting pura gente del señor Mencho, a nickname for Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, is attributed to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, circulates in social media.
• *Twenty young businessmen are kidnapped and one killed while on a “Vallartazo,” or tour, from Guadalajara to Puerta Vallarta, Jalisco. The CJNG drug cartel has reportedly demanded ransom, but nothing has been heard from the men in a week.
• July 20 to July 27 – Guelaguetza festival in Oaxaca City is presented online.
• July 21 – Three women are arrested for human trafficking as 23 children between 3 months and 15 years old are rescued in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. 2 1/2-year-old Dylan, whose disappearance from a market sparked the investigation, is still missing.
• July 22 – AMLO proposes major reforms in pensions. Bank stocks go up.
• July 23
• *The government announced 20 actions to repair the damage done during the Acteal massacre of 45 people including children in Chiapas in 1997. An Acuerdo de Solución Amistosa is to be signed on September 3.
• *The volcano Popocatépetl had its most active day of 2020 with 1,348 minutes of quaking, plus emissions of gas, water vapor, and ashes.
• July 25
• *Former Secretary of the CDMX is Rosa Icela Rodríguez is named coordinator of ports and seacoasts.
• *A study of 20 states reveals an excess of 71,315 deaths for the first six months of the year, compared to 2019. Some but not all are related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• July 26 – Hurricane Hanna hits southern Texas and parts of Mexico, causing flooding in a maternity ward in a hospital in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. A section of the border wall collapses. Flloding and fallen trees are reported in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
• July 27 – Federal Deputy Jesús de los Ángeles Pool Moo joins the PRD after leaving Morena on July 1.
• July 28 – The government of Chihuahua announes it will place 21 properties owned by César Duarte Jáquez up for aucton.
• July 31
• *Santiago Nieto Castillo, head of the :es:Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera confirms an investigation against Luis Cárdenas Palomino, former Secretary of Public Security. The bank accounts of Cárdenas Palomino, Genaro García Luna, and Ramón Pequeño have been frozen.
• *COVID-19 pandemic: With 46,688 deaths, Mexico moves into third place in the number of fatalities, behind the United States and Brazil.

  August

• August 1 – The National Autonomous University of Mexico is rated the second-best university in Latin America by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities of the Spanish National Research Council, surpassed by only the University of São Paulo.

  Predicted and scheduled events

• June 7
• *Legislative elections in Coahuila Postponed The election will be in August.
• *Municipal elections in Hidalgo Postponed
• June – Hospital de la Salud is scheduled to oped open with 500 medical and 500 nursing students. The hospital will train medical professionals primarily for community service.
• July 29 – Nancy Guadalupe Sánchez Arredondo, substitute Senator for Vanessa Rubio changes her party affiliation to Morena.
• August 10 – Rescheduled date for schools to reopen across the country. SEP indicates it will not begin classes in schools at that time but may unitiate online classes.
• December 1 – The Instituto de Salud para el Bienestar will go fully into effect and stop charging for services.
• TBA
• *'OUM Wellness' which will be built by the consortium Edificios Cero Energía in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León will be the first net-zero energy building in Latin America.
• *'La Torre Reforma Colón' designed by Javier Sordo Madaleno in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, at 309 meters tall will be the tallest building in Latin America; projected for completion.

  Holidays and festivals

• June TBA – The Feria de San Marcos, traditionally held in Aguascalientes in March, is postponed until June or July because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• July 21–26: Festival de la joven dramaturgia in Querétaro

• September 2 to 7 – Hay Festival Querétaro will be online.
• September 11–12
• *Festival Pa′l Tecate Norte in Fundidora Park, Monterrey Originally scheduled for March 20–21
• *Festival Corona Capital in Guadalajara Rescheduled from April
• September 13 – 173rd Anniversary of the Heroic Cadets
• September 15 – 210th Cry of Dolores
• September 16 - Independence Day
• September 27 – 199th Anniversary of the Culmination of the Mexican War of Independence
• September 30 – 255th Anniversary of José María Morelos' birthday

• October 12 – Day of the Race
• October 14 to 18 – The Festival Internacional Cervantino will be presented online.

• November 2 – Day of the Dead
• November 16 - Revolution Day
• November 23 – Navy Day
• November – Festival Corona Capital in Mexico City

• December 12 – Our Lady of Guadalupe ; banks closed
• December 16–24: Las Posadas
• December 21 – Winter solstice
• December 24 – Christmas Eve
• December 25 – Christmas

  Entertainment and Culture

Bullfighting

• January 19-February 16: The second part of the 2019-20 bullfighting season at Plaza de Toros México in Mexico City.

  Fashion

• July 10 – 18-year-old Karen Vega becomes the first model from from Oaxaca to be featured on the cover of Vogue México y Latinoamérica magazine.
• July 12 – Designer Carla Fernández teams up with ten artisans from Michoacan, Colima, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Guerrero to make ecological face masks based upon traditional wooden masks.

  Film

• February 9: 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles
• *Fernando Luján was remembered as a "movie legend" at the Academy Awards ceremony.
• *Luis Manuel Villreal, 47, from Monterrey wins an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, Hair Love.
• May 29 to June 7 - The Guadalajara International Film Festival participates in the.
• June 23 - Laura Mariana Meraz, a Mexican national who lives in Brooklyn, New York, USA, wins the New York City Quarantine Film Festival with the short film 19 Times.
• TBA: 62nd Ariel Awards for excellence in film-making

  Literature

• January 24: Writer Guillermo Arriaga wins the Premio Alfaguara de Novela for his novel, Salvar el fuego.
• February 13: The El Colegio de México awards the Alfonso Reyes International Prize to American historian Herbert S. Klein.
• June 10 – The Princess of Asturias Award for Literature is awarded to the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

  Music

• January 14: Manuel Antonio Casas Camarillo of Oaxaca wins second place in the Golden Classical Music Award in New York City, United States.
• January 19: Actress Yalitza Aparicio made a surprise appearance with Chilean singer Mon Laferte while she sang Plata ta tá at the Palacio de los Deportes. Aparicio held up a hand-written sign that said, "No es mi color de piel, mi clase social, mi cultura o mi preferencia sexual lo que determina quien soy, son mis valores".
• May 28 & 31 – Virtual pop concerts organized by Ocesa, featuring María José, Los Claxons, María León, and others.
• September 27: German rock and metal band Rammstein performs at Foro Sol in Mexico City.

  Television

• February 24
• * Como tú no hay 2 comedy-drama premiers on El Canal de las Estrellas
• *¡Qué Chulada! talk show debuted on Imagen Televisión.
• August 18–20: 'Expo Cine Video Television' in Mexico City
• August 19–21: 'TecnoTelevision Mexico' at the World Trade Center Mexico City is for professionals in broadcasting, production, and post-production.

  Theater

Visual arts

• January 15 – The controversial nude painting of Emiliano Zapata, La Revolución by Fabián Cháirez is purchased by Spanish businessperson Tatxo Benet.
• February 5–9 – Contemparary Art Week at four locations in Mexico City The fair in "Zona Macro" is considered the most important contemporary art fair in Latin America.
• July 1 to 17 – An open-air art exhbit called Conexión where works of art are displayed in windows, doors, walls, and terraces was on held in several Mexico City neighborhoods. Works by Teresita de la Torre, Cole M. James, Itzamina Reyes, Nasser Dłaz, and Alfredo Esparza Cárdenas, among others, were on display.

  Other

• January 8
• *XHCHM-FM radio station closes after seven years.
• *XHPAT-FM radio station closes after eight years.
• March 7 – Valentina Fluchaire is chosen "Miss International Queen" in the transgender beauty contest in Thailand.
• March 13 to 15 – La Mole Convention, Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
• June 10 – Karime López is the first Mexican woman to win a Michelin star.

  Sports

• January 1 – Sin Piedad wrestling
• January 10 – Close of Liga MX and Liga MX Femenil soccer seasons begin.
• January 15 – Laura Wilson wins a gold medal in mixed 3-on-3 ice hockey as part of the Yellow Team at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
• January 20 – The La Comisión Disciplinaria de la Federación Mexicana de Futbol disciplines Estadio Jalisco after fans yelled homophobic insults.
• January 24 – La Noche de Mr. Niebla wrestling event in honor of the late Mr. Niebla
• January 25 – Laura Galván wins the mile run at the "John Thomas Terrier Classic" at Boston University with a time of 4'31.89", a Mexican record.
• February 1–7: Baseball: Caribbean Series in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• February 14 – Muevéte en Bici sponsors a night ride in Mexico City for Valentine's Day.
• February 15 – 2020 Mexico City ePrix won by Mitch Evans
• February 17–23
• *2020 WGC-Mexico Championship won by Patrick Reed at Club Chapultepec in Mexico City
• *2020 Morelos Open, singles won by Jurij Rodionov; doubles won by Luke Saville and John-Patrick Smith
• February 22 – Rodolfo Cota, goalie for Club León, protests against femicide and may be suspended for three matches and fined MXN $300,000.
• February 22-March 8: Campeonato Femenino Sub-20 Concacaf 2020 in the Dominican Republic
• February 24 – February 29: Acapulco Open Tennis Tournament, Acapulco, Guerrero
• February 24–29: 2020 Abierto Mexicano Telcel tennis
• *Men's doubles won by Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo
• *Women's singles won by Heather Watson
• *Women's doubles won by Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos
• March 2–8: tennis
• *2020 Monterrey Challenger, singles won by Adrian Mannarino; doubles won by Karol Drzewiecki and Gonçalo Oliveira
• *2020 Monterrey Open, singles won by Elina Svitolina; doubles won by Kateryna Bondarenko and Sharon Fichman
• March 12–15: 2020 Rally Mexico, León, Guanajuato to Guanajuato City; won by Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT
• March 13
• *Rossy Velazquéz, 35, from Morelos fights María José "Leona" Favela from Baja California in Muay Thai and Grappling at Combate Americas in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
• *AAA vs MLW wrestling in Tijuana
• March 26 – The Mexico national soccer team plays an exhibition game against the Czech Republic national soccer team in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• March 29 – The Mexico national soccer team plays an exhibition game against the Greek national soccer team in Arlington, Texas.
• May 18 – The Liga MX officially closes without a champion.
• May 29 – Guillermo Álvarez Cuevas and two other executives of Cruz Azul soccer club are investigated for money laundering.
• June 2 – Monarcas Morelia announce they will move to Mazatlan next year.
• June 17 to 21: Mexican Pro Golf Tour final, Mayakoba Championship, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo
• July 16 – July 18: International Marlin and Tuna fishing tournament, Nuevo Vallarta, Jalisco
• July 24
• *Soccer Liga MX is scheduled to begin matches, but without the public.
• *Formula One races are canceled in Mexico and other countries during 2020.
• September 11–20: 2020 Women's Baseball World Cup in Monterrey
• September
• *National Basketball Association in Mexico
• November 1: Formula One in Mexico
• November : National Professional Basketball League season begins. Capitanes de Ciudad de México join the NBA G League
• December : FIFA Club World Cup

  2020 in numbers

• Economy
• *Value of peso: MXN $18.8370 = USD $1.00 on January 6.
• *Fuel costs : Magna gasoline: MXN $19.58/liter; Premium gasoline: MXN $20.83/liter; Diesel: MXN $21.25/liter on January 2, 2020
• Population
• Violence – The SESNSP reports 17,493 homicides and 489 femicides in the first six months of 2020.

  Births

• January 9 – Salomón Andrés López Adams, first grandchild of President López Obrador, born in Houston, Texas
• July 1
• *Teodoro Zedillo de la Vega, tenth grandchild of former president Ernesto Zedillo.
• *Eight Mexican gray wolf cubs of the endangered species C. l. baileyi are born at the Desert Museum in Saltillo, Coahuila.

  Deaths

January

• January 2 – Minerva 'N', 42, is the first victim of femicide of the year, in Aquismón, San Luis Potosi; stabbed.
• January 3
• *Andrea Arruti, 21, voice Actress From Beagle Boys in Frozen and in Jake and the Neverland Pirates
• *Alicia Salgado, nurse union leader ; tortured to death
• January 4
• *Félix Alberto Linares, mayor of Ocuilan, State of México; an ultra-light plane crash.
• *Enrique Montero Ponce, 91, journalist from Puebla
• January 5
• *Rubén Almanza, 90, Mexican Olympic basketball player
• *Felipe Antonio Díaz Zamora, Spanish chef in Tijuana, Baja California; murdered.
• January 6 – Sergio Fernández, 93, novelist and Los desfiguros de mi corazón ), essayist, and university professor
• January 8
• *Jaime Rosas Quiñones, leader of the sugarcane union Confederación Nacional de Propietarios Rurales in Puebla, shot in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla. Carlos Valencia Camaño, 44, was also shot.
• *Gary Hirsch Meillón, legal representative of Marindustrias and former local president of the Red Cross; shot in Manzanillo, Colima
• January 9 – Martín Alejandro Loera Trujillo, 18, student-athlete at Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; murdered
• January 10
• *María "Miss Mary" Assaf Medina, 50, English teacher at Colegio Cervantes in Torreón, Coahuila; murdered in a school shooting. The 11-year-old shooter and a 7-year-old girl also died.
• *José Javier Rodríguez Garza, Director of operations of Club de Fútbol Monterrey
• January 11
• *Jorge Cázares Campos, 82, landscape painter from Cuernavaca, Morelos
• *La Parka II, Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide wrestler; renal complication
• January 13
• *Carlos Alvarado Perea, 68, progressive rock musician; cancer
• *Carlos Girón, 65, silver-medal winning diver in the 1980 Olympics
• *Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 77, movie director in Aguascalientes
• *Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquival "La Catina", 21, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan; killed in gun battle with state and federal security forces.
• January 14
• *Chamín Correa El Requinto de Oro, 90, founder of Los Tres Caballeros
• *Diego Alejandro Rentería, 39, radio announcer
• January 16 – Jorge Navarro Sánchez and Luis Gerardo Rivera, actors in the Televisa series No Fear of Truth died after falling from a bridge during filming near Mexico City.
• January 17
• *Members of the band Sensación murdered by "Los Ardillos" in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero: Jose Julio, Crescenciano, Israel, Antonio, Candido, Lorenzo, Juan Joaquin, Marco, Regino, and Israel
• *Eduardo Soar Nova López, 42, police officer killed while trying to stop a robbery in Cuernavaca
• January 18 – Isabel Cabanillas, 26, artist and activist in Ciudad Juárez
• January 23 – José “N”, husband of alderman from Huimanguillo, Tabasco; murdered
• January 24
• *José Luis Castro Medellín, 81, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tacámbaro.
• *Carlos Garrido Gular, director del Instituto Tcnológico de Villa La Venta, Huimanguillo, Tabasco; murdered
• January 25 – Enrique Rovirosa Priego, businessman and rancher from Villahermosa, Tabasco; natural causes.
• January 28 – Narciso Elvira, 52, left-handed pitcher in the Mexican League, Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Nippon Professional Baseball ; murdered in Paso del Toro, Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz; murdered. His brother Abraham was wounded and his nephew Gustavo was also killed.
• January 29 – Homero Gómez González, 50, ecologist and president of Comité Administrador del Santuario El Rosario, a Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Ocampo Municipality, Michoacán. He was last seen alive on January 20, and a spokesperson for the state human rights commission declared that he believes Gómez González was murdered by illegal forestry interests.
• January 30 – Miguel Arroyo, 53, road racing cyclist, National champion, complications during surgery.

February

• February 1 – Raúl Hernández Romero, 44, tourist guide in Monarch butterfly sanctuaries in eastern Michoacan; he disappeared on January 27 and was found murdered on February 1. He was the second butterfly activist found murdered in less than a week.
• February 8
• *Humberto Rojas Landa, 51, a clown doctor in Puebla; shot during a robbery.
• *Ingrid Escamilla Vargas, 25, a victim of femicide
• February 12
• *Javier Arevalo, 82, artist; heart failure.
• *Fatima Cecilia Aldrighett, 7, victim of femicide
• February 18
• *Jaqueline Ramírez, 17, teenager from the Costa Grande of Guerrero, shot and tortured after she publicly accused the local police of harassment.
• *Aracely Alcocer Carmona, radio journalist in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuauhua; shot
• February 29 – Luis Alfonso Mendoza, 55, Mexican dubbing and voice actor, shot.

  March

• March 3 – Sergio Estrada Cajigal Barrera, 88, historian and politician, interim mayor of Cuernavaca, Morelos, father of Morelos governor Sergio Estrada Cajigal Ramírez; health complications
• March 5 – Alberto Mozas Fornos, 40, a Spanish citizen living in Zapopan, Jalisco; shot
• March 6 – Magdaleno Mercado, 75, soccer player,
• March 7
• *Aarón Alejandro Navarro Delgado, police commander in Tlaluac, Mexico City; shot
• *Alberto Méndez, Deputy police chief in Tarimoro, Guanajuato; shot
• March 8 – Nadia Veronica Rodriguez Saro Martinez, 23, student at Universidad Iberoamericana León; shot
• March 10 – Erik Juárez Blanquet, 30, Mexican teacher and politician, Deputy, shot.
• March 11 – Erick Juárez Blanquet, politician, member of Michoacan legislature; shot
• March 14 – Mariana Cecilia Aureliano Sixtos, 24, a student at UNAM who had been missing since March 12, found dead on this date
• March 16 – Pilar Luna, 75, underwater archaeologist.
• March 19 – Román Arámbula, 83–84, comic-book and storyboard artist, heart attack.
• March 24 – Ignacio Trelles, 103, soccer player and manager, heart attack.
• March 30
• *Martha Avante Barrón, 94, Mexican singer and musician
• *Lorena Borjas, 59, Mexican-American transgender rights activist; COVID-19
• *María Elena Ferral, journalist in Papantla, Vercruz; murdered

April

• April 1 – Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, 70, Secretary Communications and Transportation ; stroke
• April 4 – Jerónimo Arango, 92–93, businessman
• April 8 –
• *Obed Durón Gomez, mayor of Mahahual, Quintana Roo; shot
• *Adan Vez Lira, environmental rights activist; shot to death in Actopan, Veracruz
• April 11
• *Fernando Álvarez Chávez, 53, journalist in Guerrero; murdered
• *Gus Rodríguez, 59, Mexican writer, director and video game journalist; lung cancer
• April 12 – Jaime Ruiz Sacristán, 70, businessman and chief of the Mexican Stock Exchange, COVID-19.
• April 14 – Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, 84, politician, Governor of the State of Mexico and President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ; complications from surgery
• April 15 – Eric Mergenthaler, 56, Olympic sailor, and world champion ; bicycle accident
• April 18 – Amparo Dávila, 92, author and poet The Houseguest and other stories
• April 20 – Gabriel Retes, 73, filmmaker,
• April 23 – José Luis Chávez Romero, sociologist and poet from Cuautla, Morelos; murdered
• April 24 – Juan Vlasco, 51, Mexican cartoonist ; complications from appendicitis surgery
• April 25
• *Socorro Castro Alba, 85, mother of actress Verónica Castro
• *Arturo Huzar, 63, vocalist for Heavy Metal band Luzbel.
• *Jesús Memije, human rights advocate; shot in Coyuca de Benítez. His son was also killed.
• April 26
• *Tomás Balcázar, 88, soccer player ; complications from a hernia operation
• *Aarón Hernán, 89, actor
• April 29 – Guido Münch, 98, Mexican astronomer and astrophysicist
• April 30 –Óscar Chávez, 85, singer, songwriter and actor ; COVID-19

  May

• May 1 – Tavo Limongi, 52, guitarist and singer
• May 2
• *Miguel Ángel García Tapia, journalist ; COVID-19
• *Carlos Andrés Navarro Landa, 33, arrested for disorderly conduct and then died in police custody, officially from a heart attack but covered with bruises from a beating.
• May 4 – José Luis Orendain Curiel, the first doctor in Nayarit to die of COVID-19
• May 5
• *Giovanni López Ramírez, 30, mason; beaten to death while in police custody in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Jalisco. His death set off violent demonstrations against police brutality.
• *Jaime Montejo, human rights actist in Mexico City; COVID-19
• May 6 – Fabián Mauricio Toledo Aguilar, the first doctor in Morelos to die of COVID-19
• May 8
• *Moisés Escamilla May, 45, gangster ; COVID-19
• *Feminicide in Torreón, Coahuila: Cecilia Pérez Gutiérrez, 48, nurse; Araceli Pérez Gutiérrez, 59, nurse; and Dora Pérez Gutiérrez, 56, medical assistant; strangulation
• May 12 – Paloma Cordero, 83, First Lady of Mexico
• May 13
• *Alejandro Huerta Barreto, union leader and his nephew Juan Machucho, in Tezonapa, Veracruz; shot
• *Emigdio Moreno Cossío, father of Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas, president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
• *Gustavo Nakatani Ávila, 60, singer;
• May 14 – Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, 68, guitarist
• May 15 – Luis Alfonzo Robles Contreras, politician, mayor of Magdalena de Kino, Sonora; shot during crossfire by narcos.
• May 16
• *José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, gangster; shot in Culiacan His sister, Ada Jimena Arechiga Gamboa, was murdered in a separate incident.
• *Jorge Armenta, journalist, director of media outlet Medios Obson in,Ciudad Obregón, Sonora; shot. A police officer was also killed and another wouned.
• *Pilar Pellicer, 82, actress ; COVID-19
• May 17 – Daniela Lázaro Ducoulombier, soccer player ; stangled with a rope
• May 19 – Alvaro Echeverria Zuno, 71, son of former president Luis Echeverría; suicide
• May 21 – Alfonso Isaac Gamboa Lozano, 39, former head of Unidad de Política y Control Presupuestal of SHCP; shot along with four other members of his family in Temxico, Morelos
• May 23 – Armando Acosta, 39, voice actor ; COVID-19
• May 28
• *Robert M. Laughlin, anthropologist and preserver of the Maya language
• *Charlie Monttana “El vaquero rocanrrolero”, 58, urban rock singer; heart attack
• May 31 – Oswaldo García Vallejo, head of public safety in Jalostotitlán, Jalisco; shot

  June

• June 2 – Héctor Suárez, 81, actor and comedian, father of Héctor Suárez Gomís
• June 3
• *Francis Anel Bueno Sánchez, 38, politician, local deputy from Ixtlahuacán, Colima; kidnapped on Aril 29, body found June 3—shot
• *Ángel Fuentes Olivares, lawyer, politician, former attorney general of Veracruz; stabbed
• *Héctor Ortega, 81, actor, director, and screenwriter
• *César Tovar Camargo, educator and politician in Hidlago; VOCID/19
• June 4
• *Marco Alberto Corona Baltazar, acting warden of the penitentiary in Puente Grande, Jalsico; shot
• *Rodolfo García, 54, wrestler; COVID-19
• June 7 – Manuel Felguérez Barra, 91, abstract artist
• June 9 – Cira, La Morena, chef in Acapulco
• June 10
• *Rosita Fornés, 97, Cuban American singer who starred in several movies during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema; emphysema
• *Antonio González Orozco, 87, Mexican muralist, cancer.
• June 11 – José Luis Castillo, journalist, owner of ′′Máxima prioridad′′ in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora; murdered
• June 14
• *Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, 77, soccer player ; Alzheimer and COVID-19
• June 15 – Jorge Rubio, 75, Mexican baseball player.
• June 16 – Uriel Villegas Ortiz, judge, and his wife; murdered
• June 18
• *Arturo Chaires, 83, Mexican footballer.
• *Jorge Humberto Arellano, politician, mayor of Acaponeta, Nayarit; COVID-19.
• June 24 – Four mariachi players drown in a storm in Juárez, Nuevo León:
• *Alexis Ángel Corona Sánchez, 17; Alejandro Corona, 59, and Javier Salas Navarro, 44
• June 25 – Joel Negrete Barrera, politician from Abasolo, Guanajuato; murdered

  July

• June 28 – Manuel Donley, 92, Mexican-born American Tejano singer and musician.
• July 2 – Teodoro Enrique Pino Miranda, 73, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Huajuapan de León.
• July 4 – Sebastián Athié, 24, actor
• July 9
• *Marlene Catzín Cih, 66, politician, mayor of Maxcanú, Yucatan ; COVID-19.
• *Sylvia Martínez Elizondo, 72, politician, Senator from Chihuahua .
• July 12
• *Raymundo Capetillo, soap opera actor; COVID-19
• *Francisco Javier Fierro Torres, teacher and politician in Choix, Sinaloa; murdered
• *Abel González Rojas, 30, police officer in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico; shot. His two minor sons were also killed.
• July 13 – Angie Michelle Vera; from San Andrés Cholula, Puebla; femicide
• July 20 – Guillermo Salvador Boyzo González, adjunct general direct of the Foreign Ministry; COVID-19
• July 24
• *Úrsula Mojica Obrador, 69, cousin of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; COVID-19
• *Ana Lucía Rupprecht, Swiss-Mexican child who could not get medicine in Mexico; leukemia
• July 26 – José Kuri Harfusch, businessman COVID-19

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