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
The Mexican Armed Forces announces its soldiers opened fire on a truck after "hearing detonations" while pursuing it near Huixtla, Chiapas, Mexico. The vehicle was carrying migrants, six out of thirty-one of whom are killed. 2024-10-2
At least 12 gunmen are killed by security forces on a highway in Sonora, Mexico, during a failed attempt to rescue the son of a prominent Sinaloa Cartel hitman from police custody. Two officers are also injured in the shootout. 2024-01-21
A train collides with a bus near El Marqués, Querétaro, Mexico, killing at least seven people and injuring seventeen others. 2023-08-2
At least 26 people are killed when a van crashes into a truck in Tamaulipas, Mexico. 2023-05-14
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
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time. 2022-01-10
Mexican health regulator COFEPRIS grants emergency use authorization for Merck & Co.'s anti-COVID-19 drug Molnupiravir for the treatment of severe disease. 2022-01-7
Mexican health regulator COFEPRIS approves the emergency use of Eli Lilly and Company's injectable combination of bamlanivimab and etesevimab to treat mild to moderate COVID-19 cases in people over the age of 12 years who weigh at least 40 kg. 2021-12-1
A shootout between rival cartel gangs in Chihuahua, Mexico, kills at least 19 people. 2020-04-4