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
Nineteen people are injured after an ethane gas explosion in Agua Dulce, Veracruz, Mexico. 2022-11-29
At least 17 people are killed at a hospital during heavy floods in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. 2021-09-6
A shootout between rival cartel gangs in Chihuahua, Mexico, kills at least 19 people. 2020-04-4
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
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
Hurricane Carlos hits southwestern Mexico with heavy rain ahead of making landfall as a tropical storm later in the week. 2015-06-15
The Governor of the Mexican state of Nuevo León fires the states' public safety secretary General Jaime Castaneda following the Apodaca prison riot where 44 inmates were killed. 2012-02-24
Experts from Chile who helped rescue 33 miners trapped for more than three months in a mine last October go to assist rescue efforts in northern Mexico, where nine workers remained trapped in a mine after an explosion. 2011-05-4
More than forty bodies are found in a mass grave in Mexico's Tamaulipas state. 2011-04-6