Sources: BBC News
Two federal agents are killed in a shootout with an armed group in Omealca, Veracruz, Mexico. 2026-09-5
Police in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, arrest a man suspected of participating in the 1994 assassination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta, and take him to a maximum security prison in central Mexico. 2025-11-8
South Sudan repatriates a Mexican national who had been deported from the United States, after receiving assurances from Mexico that he would not face torture or unfair prosecution. 2025-09-6
A Pemex petrochemical manufacturing refinery in Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico, suffers a large explosion followed by a fire. No deaths are reported, but seven people, including five firefighters, are injured. 2021-04-8
Mexico's richest person and billionaire Carlos Slim tests positive for COVID-19. 2021-01-25
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales says he has accepted an offer of political asylum in Mexico and boards a Mexican government plane as Bolivian Army troops are deployed in the capital. 2019-11-11
A riot at Cadereyta Jiménez prison located outside the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, kills at least 13 people. 2017-10-10
Gunmen storm a bar in Cancún, Mexico, and kill 7 people, also 4 others were wounded in the attack. The authorities allege that the victims were part of a taxi union. 2013-03-14
Mexican marines kill 4 gunmen who tried to steal the body of Angel Enrique Uscanga, a drug boss, in Gulf coast state of Veracruz. 2012-12-30
3,200 police officers have been fired so far this year by Mexico's federal police force due to extracurricular activities. 2010-08-30