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Mexico suspends all interactions with the Canadian and American embassies in Mexico City due to claimed interference with its independence and internal affairs after both ambassadors criticized reform plans for members of the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court justices, to be elected by popular vote.
2024-08-27

Mexico begins vaccinations with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. An intensive care unit nurse in Mexico City becomes the first person in the country to receive the vaccine.
2020-12-24

Following the death of 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla, who was killed by her boyfriend in February, women march against violence against women in Mexico's capital on International Women's Day, ahead of the 24-hour female strike scheduled for Monday.
2020-03-8

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Mexico, killing at least 220 people and collapsing several buildings in Mexico City and widespread evacuations, hours after a yearly earthquake drill in commemoration of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
2017-09-19

Socorro Flores Liera, Mexico's deputy foreign minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City, that during the first half of 2017, 1,420 Venezuelans have sought asylum in Mexico, a nearly four-fold jump compared to the 361 total Venezuelan asylum applicants for all of 2016, as the result of Venezuela's deepening political and economic crisis.
2017-08-4

Colombian Nobel laurete novelist Gabriel García Márquez, 87, is hospitalized in Mexico City. His condition and illness remains unknown.
2014-04-3

A 5.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern Mexico causes power outages in Mexico City.
2013-06-16

In Mexico City, Mexico, two men are arrested in connection with the May 9 murder of 28-year-old American Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson and first male descendant of Malcolm X.
2013-05-13

A G-20 finance ministers meeting is held in Mexico City to discuss progress in the Eurozone bailout.
2012-02-25

The Popocatepetl volcano south of Mexico City starts spewing ash into the sky.
2011-08-30