Sources: The Age The China Post
Mexico's Gulf Cartel surrenders five purported perpetrators of last weekend's kidnapping of four U.S. citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and offers an apology to the victims, their families, and society in general. 2023-03-9
Fourteen people are killed and 20 others are injured after a bus's brakes malfunction, causing it to crash on a highway in Jalisco, Mexico. 2022-05-19
Mexico reports a record 30,671 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 4.1 million. The country also surpasses 300,000 deaths from COVID-19. 2022-01-8
A coal mine collapse and subsequent flood leaves seven miners trapped in Múzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico. Rescue operations are currently underway. 2021-06-5
The Mexican Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk grants an emergency use authorization for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. 2021-05-27
Lawmakers in Mexico's lower chamber of Congress approve a constitutional reform that would allow for recall referendums to cut short the six-year presidential term limit; the measure still needs the approval of the Senate and the state legislatures. 2019-03-15
Donald Trump calls for a 20% tariff on Mexican imports to pay for the cost of a wall on the U.S–Mexican border. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says that this is one of the ideas that the administration is considering to make Mexico pay for the wall. 2017-01-26
Mexican international football player Alan Pulido, who plays for Olympiacos F.C., is kidnapped by masked men near his home in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. He is later rescued. 2016-05-29
Masked gunmen kidnap and kill Marcos Antonio Avila Garcia, a journalist who often wrote about organized crime. His corpse was found inside a plastic bag in the Mexican city of Empalme. 2012-05-18
Mexican Drug War: 49 dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. The decapitated and mutilated bodies were dumped on a roadside near the northern city of Monterrey, presumably by members of the powerful Los Zetas drug cartel. 2012-05-13