Sources: UPI
A series of shootouts and encounters are reported in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, after the arrest of the regional leader of the Cártel del Noreste and leader of an armed wing in the state. The United States Consulate in Mexico issues an alert for its citizens to not go out on the streets, and the Nuevo Laredo International Airport suspends activities due to the violence. 2025-02-4
A traffic collision between a truck and a bus kills eight people and injures 27 others in Veracruz, Mexico. 2024-12-27
Nineteen people are killed and five others are injured when a bus crashes on a highway in Zacatecas, Mexico, while heading from Nayarit to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. 2024-10-26
Eighteen people are killed, including the town's mayor, and three others injured, when a Los Tequileros drug gang open fire in a mass shooting at the town hall in San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero, Mexico. 2022-10-5
Mexico extradites Rubén Oseguera González, the son of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, to the United States to face drug charges. Cervantes is the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. 2020-02-21
Two explosions at fireworks workshops in Tultepec, Mexico, kill at least 19 people, including rescue workers, and injure dozens more. Tultepec is home to a major fireworks industry. 2018-07-5
A tour bus crash in Mexico leaves at least 12 people dead and 18 injured. The cause of the crash is under investigation. 2017-12-19
Mexico expels the ambassador of North Korea in the country over the recent nuclear weapons testing. 2017-09-7
Representatives from China and Mexico pledge to deepen ties between their countries as a reaction to Donald Trump's positions on trade. 2016-12-12
Mexican author Carlos Fuentes, one of the leading authors of the Latin American literary boom, dies in Mexico aged 83. 2012-05-15