Sources: BBC News
Mexican airlines Aeroméxico, Viva, and Volaris restrict travel to Mexico for passengers who have been in the DRC, South Sudan, or Uganda within the previous 21 days, citing the ongoing Ebola outbreak in central Africa. 2026-05-29
Mexico's National Autonomous University cancels or shifts classes online in over half its departments after the killing of a student and threats against female professors, prompting authorities to strengthen security and provide support measures. 2025-09-30
Eleven Los Zetas gunmen are sentenced to 50 years in prison each for the 2010–2011 massacres of 122 men in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, who were taken off passing buses and forced to fight each other to death with sledgehammers. 2024-08-24
Mexico receives the first shipment of 200,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine. 2021-02-22
A magnitude 8.1 earthquake is recorded 96 kilometers (60 miles) south of Pijijiapan, Chiapas, Mexico. This is Mexico's strongest quake since the 8.0 earthquake that hit the Greater Mexico City area in 1985. At least 26 deaths have been recorded. 2017-09-7
American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto meet to discuss the protection of the Vaquita porpoise. 2017-06-8
Mexican tequila producer Jose Cuervo will delay its IPO until after the U.S. presidential election due to concern over potential market volatility. 2016-10-5
Mass graves found in Iguala, Mexico, on October 5th reportedly contain the remains of 28 of the 43 missing students that clashed with the police during last September. 2014-10-8
Fifty-three people are killed in a 72-hour period in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. 2011-02-20
At least 14 people are killed during a prison riot in Matamoros in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. 2010-08-6