2026 in Mexico

<span lang="es">This</span> article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2026. The list also contains names of the incumbents at federal and state levels and cultural and entertainment activities of the year.

Incumbents

Events

January

• 2 January – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Guerrero, killing two people.
• 8 January – Carlos Castro, the director of the online media outlet Código Norte Veracruz, is shot dead in Poza Rica.
• 13 January – The head of operations of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Guadalajara is arrested in Zapopan.
• 16 January – American fugitive Alejandro Castillo is captured in Pachuca after nearly 10 years on the run.
• 19 January – Businessman Carlos Slim announces he will buy two offshore oil fields previously owned by Russian oil company Lukoil, which was sanctioned.
• 20 January – Mexico extradites 37 suspected drug cartel members to the United States.
• 21 January –
• Footballers Brian Gutiérrez and Richard Ledezma are granted approval by FIFA to play senior level international matches for the Mexican national team.
• Canadian snowboarder and alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding is arrested in Mexico City.
• 22 January – César Alejandro Sepúlveda Arellano, the suspected leader of the Blancos de Troya criminal group, is arrested in Buenavista, Michoacán.
• 25 January – At least 11 people are killed in an armed attack at a football match in Salamanca, Guanajuato.
• 27 January – President Sheinbaum announces the suspension of oil shipments to Cuba.
• 28 January – Ten people are abducted from mining facilities owned by Vizsla Silver in Sinaloa. Five of the victims are subsequently found dead in Concordia, Sinaloa.
• 29 January – Sergio Torres Félix and Elizabeth Montoya Ojeda, members of the Congress of Sinaloa for the Citizens' Movement, are injured in an armed attack in Culiacán.

February

• 2 February – Footballer Obed Vargas signs with La Liga club Atlético Madrid on a four-and-a-half-year contract with Atlético paying $3 million dollars for Vargas.
• 5 February –
• A health alert is declared in Jalisco due to a measles outbreak in Guadalajara.
• Tequila mayor Diego Rivera Navarro (Morena) is arrested by Jalisco state police over accusations of extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering and accepting bribes from the CJNG cartel.
• Santiago Gallon Henao, a suspect in the 1994 killing of Colombian football player Andrés Escobar, is shot dead in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.
• 6–22 February – Mexico at the 2026 Winter Olympics
• 10 February – An Iztapalapa-based nurse is arrested in Oaxaca by state police after being on the run since early January for running over and killing a delivery motorcyclist. She was returned to Mexico City the following day.
• 11 February – Mexico confirms it suspended all fuel shipments to Cuba to avoid punitive tariffs by the United States, but vows to continue shipments of humanitarian aid.
• 19 February – Authorities announce the seizure of nearly four tonnes of cocaine and the arrest of three people from a semisubmersible craft off the coast of Manzanillo, Colima.
• 22 February –
• The military and state police ambush and kill CJNG boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho", in Tapalpa, Jalisco.
• A wave of violent cartel roadblocks ravages through multiple states following the killing of El Mencho with confirmed clashes and roadblocks in Jalisco, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, Colima, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, Puebla and Yucatán.
• 26 February –
• The Supreme Court of Mexico convenes in Tenejapa, Chiapas, in its first session in its history outside Mexico City.
• TV Azteca files for bankruptcy protection intended to restructure the network with approximately $2 billion to $2.2 billion (USD) under judicial supervision.
• 28 February – A bus falls into a ravine in Tlalneplanta, Morelos, killing eight people and injuring 24 others.

March

• 6 March – A fire destroys 60 structures in Punta Zicatela, Oaxaca.
• 15 March – Mexico wins the Guinness World Record for the largest football class after 9,500 people attend an event held at the Zócalo in Mexico City.
• 17 March – Five people are killed following a fire at the Dos Bocas Refinery in Paraíso, Tabasco.
• 18 March – Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales aka Lobo Menor, an Ecuadorean national suspected of leading the Los Lobos gang and wanted in Ecuador over the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, is arrested in Mexico City and extradited to Colombia, where he is also wanted on charges of involvement with FARC dissidents.
• 19 March – A raid kills 11 members of the Sinaloa Cartel in El Álamo, Sinaloa, with a senior cartel leader being captured along with many weapons.
• 24 March – 2026 Makarenko School shooting: Two female staff members are killed by a 15-year-old male at a high school in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.
• 25 March – Berta Olga Gómez Fong, wife of former Chihuahua governor César Duarte, is detained in El Paso, Texas, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
• 26 March – Mexico's navy launches a search and rescue operation in the Caribbean Sea for two sailboats, which departed from Isla Mujeres with nine crew members, carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after they failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled and lost communication.
• 28 March – The Azteca Stadium (now Banorte) reopens to the public with Mexico taking on Portugal ending in a 0–0 draw, with 84,130 spectators in attendance.

April

• 1 April – Juan Ramón de la Fuente resigns as Secretary of Foreign Affairs for health reasons. Pending Senate approval, he will be replaced by Roberto Velasco Álvarez.

Scheduled

• 31 March – The government begins construction of a 25 billion peso desalination plant in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, to be completed in 2029. The plant will be the largest and most modern in Latin America and will produce 2,200 liters of water per second.
• 7 June – (all 25 seats in the Congress of Coahuila)
• 11 June – 19 July – 2026 FIFA World Cup

Sports

• Mexico at the 2026 Winter Olympics

Holidays

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 2 February – Constitution Day
• 16 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

• 16 January – Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez, 92, PRI politician, mayor of San Luis Potosí (1968–1970), governor of San Luis Potosí (1973–1979) and two-term federal deputy.
• 22 January – Ernesto Gil Elorduy, 82, PRI politician, mayor of Pachuca (1985–1988), senator and two-term federal deputy.
• 31 January – Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, 62, PAN politician, municipal president of Mexicali (2016–2019) and incumbent senator for Baja California.
• 31 January – Gerardo Taracena, 55, actor (Apocalypto, Man on Fire, ').

February

• 2 February – Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, 75, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of La Paz, Baja California Sur.
• 5 February – Eladio González Garza, 89, voice actor.
• 12 February –
• María Elena Álvarez Bernal, 95, PAN politician, senator (1997–2000) and four-term federal deputy.
• Milkman, 36, rapper, producer, and composer.
• 13 February – Dolores Muñoz Ledo, 107, voice actress.
• 22 February – Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, drug lord, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (since 2010).

March

• 3 March – Rafael del Castillo, 92, football executive (1980–1988).
• 15 March – Pablo Jurado, 22, footballer (goalkeeper).

See also

• Outline of Mexico
• History of Mexico

References

External links

• Online calendar