Offstream
news

In Mexico, at least 18 people are killed and 23 others are injured when a bus traveling from Mexico City to Tijuana, Baja California, falls into a ravine in Tepic, Nayarit. The driver is arrested for suspected overspeeding.
2023-08-3

The National Electoral Institute reports that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's coalition Juntos Hacemos Historia is projected to win between 265 and 292 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, retaining its majority but without the two-thirds majority that it previously had. His party National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) saw losses in Mexico City, previously a MORENA stronghold. López Obrador subsequently vows to do more to help the poor.
2021-06-7

Mexico City and the State of Mexico move back to the "red traffic light". All non-essential activity will be suspended until January 10 due to an "alarming" increase in both infections and hospital occupancies.
2020-12-18

An explosion at a fireworks market in the city of Tultepec near Mexico City, kills at least 29 people and injures at least 70 others. Pyrotechnics is a major industry in Tultepec.
2016-12-20

A Nieto Express propane gas tanker truck explodes near the loading dock of a maternity and children's hospital (Hospital Materno Infantil Cuajimalpa) in Mexico City, collapsing much of the hospital with at least three deaths and 70 people injured, 22 of whom are children.
2015-01-29

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Mexico City over alleged vote buying in the country's presidential election, which saw Enrique Peña Nieto elected.
2012-07-8

Miguel Ángel Mancera wins the 2012 Mexico City head of state (mayoral) election.
2012-07-2

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation upholds as constitutional a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City.
2010-08-5

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake occurs in southern Mexico near the city of Pinotepa Nacional, shaking buildings as far away as Mexico City but not causing serious damage or casualties.
2010-06-30