2025 in Mexico

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This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2025. The list also contains names of the incumbents at federal and state levels and cultural and entertainment activities of the year.

Incumbents

See also: Cabinet of Claudia Sheinbaum

Events

January

• 1 January – The Tax Administration Service (SAT) implements new tariffs, including a 19% duty on goods from countries without international trade agreements with Mexico and a 17% duty on goods from Canada and the United States under certain value thresholds.
• 13 January –
  • Five people are killed in a shooting in Huitzilac, Morelos.
  • A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Michoacán, injuring two people.
• 23 January – The office of Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya in Culiacán is stormed by demonstrators protesting over the death of two minors in a carjacking.
• 31 January – Med Jets Flight 056: A Jet Rescue Air Ambulance Learjet 55 flying from Philadelphia in the United States to Tijuana crashes shortly after takeoff during a medevac flight, killing all six Mexican nationals on board.

February

• 1 February – US President Donald Trump imposes a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico.
• 3 February – The US suspends its increased tariffs on Mexican imports for a month following and agreement between President Trump and President Sheinbaum for her to deploy 10,000 National Guard soldiers to the US-Mexico border.
• 8 February – 2025 Escárcega bus crash. A bus collides with a truck before catching fire near Escárcega, Campeche, killing 41 people and injuring eight others.
• 13 February – Marco Ebben, a fugitive and convicted drug lord from the Netherlands who had previously faked his own death, is reported to have been killed in a shootout in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico.
• 19 February – The United States designates the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Carteles Unidos, the Cártel del Noreste, the Gulf Cartel, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization as terrorist organizations.
• 20 February – Canada designates the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Carteles Unidos, the Cártel del Noreste, the Gulf Cartel, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization as terrorist organizations.
• 27 February –
  • The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation orders the San Juan de Aragón zoo in Mexico City to improve the health of its resident African elephant, Ely, the first time it has made such a decision regarding an animal.
  • The Mexican government sends Rafael Caro Quintero and 28 other drug cartel figures to the United States to face criminal charges there.

March

• 4 March – President Trump reimposes expanded tariffs on Mexico.
• 5 March – Around 200 pairs of shoes, other personal items, three makeshift crematoriums, and charred human remains are found in a ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco.
• 10 March –
  • A bus overturns on the Mitla-Tehuantepec Highway in Oaxaca, killing 18 people and injuring 29 others.
  • A bus collides with a tractor near Velardeña, Durango, killing 14 people and injuring 10 others.
• 14 March – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Oaxaca, injuring four people.
• 18 March – The Congress of Mexico City votes 61–1 in favor of outlawing killing of bulls in bullfighting matches and the use of sharp objects that could injure them.
• 21 March – Club León are disqualified from the upcoming 2025 FIFA Club World Cup after FIFA rules that the club had failed to meet tournament regulations on multi-club ownership regarding its connections to Grupo Pachuca, which also owns C.F. Pachuca.
• 23 March – A van falls into a ravine before catching fire in Santiago, Nuevo León, killing 12 people and injuring four others.
• 29 March – A nationwide ban on the sale of junk food in schools comes into effect.
• 31 March – The United States imposes sanctions on 13 individuals and entities for their involvement in money laundering for factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

April

• 4 April – The first human case of avian flu belonging to the Type A H5N1 strain in Mexico is discovered in a three-year-old patient in Torreón, Coahuila, who originated from the state of Durango. She dies on 8 April, also making her the first human H5N1 fatality in Mexico.
• 5 April – Two photographers are killed in the collapse of a decorative structure at the Festival Ceremonia in Mexico City.
• 10 April – A Grob G 120TP trainer aircraft of the Mexican Air Force crashes near Ameca, Jalisco, killing its two crew members.
• 19 April – WWE announces on its WrestleMania 41 pre-show panel that they had acquired the promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
• 28 April – Mexico reaches an agreement with the United States providing for a greater share by the US of water flow in six tributaries of the Rio Grande.
• 27 April to 3 May – 2025 IIHF World Championship Division III Group B

May

• 3 May – José Murguía Santiago, the mayor of Teuchitlán, Jalisco, is arrested on suspicion of involvement in the operations of the Jalisco extermination camp.
• 13 May – TikTok influencer Valeria Márquez is shot dead during a livestream in Zapopan, Jalisco.
• 14 May – A truck, a bus and a van collide in Puebla, killing 21 people.
• 15 May – The mayor of Santiago Amoltepec in Oaxaca, Mario Hernández, is killed along with two others in an ambush.
• 16 May – Two security instructors for the Jalisco police are killed in a shooting in Guadalajara.
• 17 May – Cuauhtémoc Brooklyn Bridge collision: The Mexican Navy training ship ARM Cuauhtémoc crashes into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, killing two sailors and damaging the vessel.
• 19 May – Seven people are killed in a shooting by suspected members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel at a religious event in San Bartolo de Berrios, Guanajuato.
• 20 May – The personal secretary of Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada and another adviser are shot dead in the Moderna neighborhood.
• 20 May – The United States imposes sanctions on two members of the Cártel del Noreste.
• 22 May – A court in the United States awards the Mexican government $2.448 billion in damages from former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted and imprisoned in the US for drug charges, and his wife Linda Cristina Pereyra.
• 23 May – Photographer Graciela Iturbide is awarded the Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts, citing her work in documenting "the social reality not only of Mexico, but also of many places".
• 26 May – Authorities announce the discovery of 17 bodies inside an abandoned house in Irapuato, Guanajuato.
• 27 May – Six soldiers are killed in a bomb attack in Michoacán.
• 29 May – The bodies of five members of the musical band Grupo Fugitivo who went missing on 25 May are discovered in Reynosa.

June

• 1 June –
  • 2025 Mexican judicial elections: Hugo Aguilar Ortiz, a Mixtec from Oaxaca, is elected president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation and becomes the first indigenous person since Benito Juárez in 1858 to become a justice in the court amid a turnout of 13%.
  • Twelve people are killed in a fire at a drug rehabilitation center in San José Iturbide, Guanajuato.
• 3 June – A bus overturns in Hualahuises, Nuevo León, killing 11 people and injuring 17 others.
• 5 June – The Supreme Court of the United States dismisses a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government that sought to hold American gun manufacturers liable for the illegal sale of firearms to drug cartels and other criminal organizations in Mexico.
• 6 June –
  • An aircraft conducting pest control operations crashes near Tapachula, Chiapas, killing all three people on board.
  • The mayor of Tacámbaro in Michoacán, Salvador Bastida García, is killed along with his security detail in an ambush.
• 8 June – Chiapas police enter the Guatemalan border town of La Mesilla during an operation that leaves four gunmen dead.
• 9 June – The United States imposes sanctions on Archivaldo Iván Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, sons of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.
• 16 June – The mayor of San Mateo Piñas in Oaxaca, Lilia Gema García Soto, is killed along with another official in an attack by gunmen on the municipal hall.
• 17 June – The mayor of Tepalcatepec in Michoacán, Martha Laura Mendoza, is killed along with her husband while leaving her home.
• 18 June – Debris from a failed rocket launch by SpaceX in Texas lands over the border in Tamaulipas, prompting an investigation into contamination by the Mexican government.
• 19 June – Hurricane Erick makes landfall in Oaxaca as a category 3 storm, leaving at least one person dead.
• 25 June –
  • Twelve people are killed in a gun attack on a religious celebration in Irapuato, Guanajuato.
  • The United States imposes sanctions on the Mexican banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco and the brokerage firm Vector Casa de Bolsa for allegedly facilitating cash transfers for drug cartels.
• 26 June – The accumulated remains of 389 people are discovered in suspicious circumstances at a crematorium in Ciudad Juárez.
• 30 June – The bodies of 20 people are discovered along two separate sections of a highway near Culiacán.

July

• 4–5 July – Protests break out in Mexico City denouncing gentrification and rent increases, with violent clashes between protesters and tourists occurring in the Condesa and Roma districts.
• 6 July – Mexico wins its tenth CONCACAF Gold Cup title after defeating the United States 2-1 at the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup final in Houston.
• 7 July – Four million gallons of stolen fuel products are recovered from two abandoned trains near Ramos Arizpe and Saltillo in Coahuila.
• 9 July –
  • Ten people are sentenced to 141 years' imprisonment on abduction and murder charges relating to the Jalisco extermination camp.
  • El Salvador recalls its ambassador to Mexico, Rosa Delmy Cañas, after Mexican security minister Omar García Harfuch claims that authorities had intercepted an aircraft off the coast of Colima that was transporting 428 kilograms of cocaine and originated from El Salvador.
• 24 July – Mexico and the United States sign an agreement for a comprehensive resolution of environmental and sewerage problems in the Tijuana River.
• 30 July – The bodies of 32 people are discovered buried in a property in Irapuato, Guanajuato.

August

• 1 August – Israel Vallarta, the alleged leader of a kidnapping group who was arrested and imprisoned for more than 20 years in a case of organized crime and kidnapping that also involved his French girlfriend Florence Cassez, is released after charges against him are dismissed.
• 2 August –
  • Seven inmates are killed and eleven others are injured in a riot at a prison in Tuxpan, Veracruz.
  • A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Oaxaca, injuring two people.
• 4 August – Ernesto Vásquez Reyna, the representative of the Attorney General of Mexico in Tamaulipas, is shot dead in Reynosa.
• 5 August – Activist Luis García Villagrán is arrested in Tapachula on charges related to his advocacy for migrants.
• 6 August – The United States imposes sanctions on rapper Ricardo Hernández aka El Makabelico for alleged money laundering for the Cártel del Noreste.

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Mexico

Source:

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 3 February – Constitution Day
• 17 March – Benito Juárez Day
• 17 April – Maundy Thursday
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 5 May – Cinco de Mayo
• 16 September – Independence Day
• 12 October – Día de la Raza
• 2 November – Day of the Dead
• 17 November – Revolution Day
• 12 December – Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
• 25 December – Christmas Day

Art and entertainment

• List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Deaths

January

• 2 January – Cristóbal Ortega, 68, footballer (América, national team).
• 4 January – Emilio Echevarría, 80, actor (Amores perros, Die Another Day, The Alamo).
• 6 January – Jorge Flores, 70, Olympic basketball player (1976).
• 10 January – Horacio González de las Casas, 82, politician, deputy (1988–1991).
• 11 January – James Carlos Blake, 81, Mexican-born American author.
• 27 January –
  • Joel Ayala Almeida, 78, trade unionist and politician, senator (2000–2006, 2012–2018) and three-time deputy.
  • Alma Rosa Aguirre, 95, actress.
• 28 January – David Noel Ramírez Padilla, 75, academic administrator, rector of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (2011–2017).
• 29 January – Martha Hilda González Calderón, 59, politician, deputy (2015–2018).

February

• 4 February – Felipe Montemayor, 96, baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• 11 February – Norma Mora, 81, actress (Qué perra vida, Los astronautas).
• 17 February –
  • Paquita la del Barrio, 77, singer, songwriter and actress.
  • Yolanda Montes, 93, American-Mexican actress (Salomé, Kill Me Because I'm Dying!, Nocturne of Love) and dancer.
• 20 February – Daniel Bisogno, 51, television actor and host.
• 25 February – Roberto Orci, 51, Mexican-born American screenwriter (Star Trek, Transformers) and television producer (Fringe).

March

• 1 March – Flor Procuna, 72, actress (Los ricos también lloran).
• 4 March – Ciclón Ramirez, 64, professional wrestler (CMLL, IWRG).
• 8 March – Isabel Miranda de Wallace, 73, social activist.
• 9 March –
  • Bracito de Oro, 59, wrestler.
  • Yola Ramírez, 90, tennis player.
• 10 March – Jesús Antonio Lerma Nolasco, 79, Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Mexico (2009–2019) and bishop of Iztapalapa (2019–2021).
• 13 March – Mario Ramírez Treviño, 63, suspected drug trafficker.
• 15 March – Hernán Lara Zavala, 79, novelist and literary critic.
• 28 March – Olegario Vázquez Raña, 89, sports shooter and businessman, four-time Olympic competitor (1964–1976).
• 30 March – Enrique Bátiz, 82, pianist and conductor.

April

• 1 April –
  • Arsenio Campos, 79, actor.
  • María del Carmen Pinete Vargas, 64, politician, four-term deputy, vice president of the Chamber (2024).
• 9 April – Juan Manuel Gastélum, 70, politician, deputy (2012–2015) and municipal president of Tijuana (2016–2019).
• 13 April – Miguel Cortés Miranda, 40, chemist and charged serial killer.
• 18 April – Rodolfo Torres Medina, 76, politician, mayor of Chihuahua (1989–1992) and rector of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (1985–1989), cancer.
• 20 April – Black Terry, 72, professional wrestler (CMLL, IWRG, UWA).
• 25 April –
  • Eugenio Anguiano Roch, 85, economist, academic and diplomat.
  • Lupita Torrentera, 93, actress and ballerina (Coqueta).
• 28 April – Juana Gutierrez, 93, Mexican-American political activist.

May

• 2 May – Fidel Herrera Beltrán, 76, politician, governor of Veracruz (2004–2010), senator (2000–2004), and four-time deputy.
• 16 May – Mariano Azuela Güitrón, 89, jurist, justice (1983–2009) and president (2003–2009) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

See also

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

External links

• Online calendar