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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

A power outage lasting several hours affects over 10 million people in Mexico, including in the capital Mexico City.
2020-12-28

Mexico begins vaccinations with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. An intensive care unit nurse in Mexico City becomes the first person in the country to receive the vaccine.
2020-12-24

Socorro Flores Liera, Mexico's deputy foreign minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City, that during the first half of 2017, 1,420 Venezuelans have sought asylum in Mexico, a nearly four-fold jump compared to the 361 total Venezuelan asylum applicants for all of 2016, as the result of Venezuela's deepening political and economic crisis.
2017-08-4

Luis Videgaray Caso resigns as Mexico's finance minister amid fallout over President Enrique Peña Nieto's controversial meeting with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Mexico City. Videgaray is revealed to have been the main advocate of arranging the meeting.
2016-09-7

Archaeologists find a skull rack used by the Aztecs to display victims in the ruins of the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
2015-08-20

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Mexico causes power outages in Mexico City.
2013-06-16

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

A G-20 finance ministers meeting is held in Mexico City to discuss progress in the Eurozone bailout.
2012-02-25

500,000 residents of Mexico City have been vaccinated against the A-H1N1 flu.
2010-02-17