2024 In Mexico

President and cabinet

Office	Image	Name	Tenure / Current length
President		Andrés Manuel López Obrador	1 December 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-12-01)
Secretariat of the Interior		Luisa María Alcalde Luján	19 June 2023 (10 months ago) (2023-06-19)
Secretariat of Foreign Affairs		Alicia Bárcena Ibarra	3 July 2023 (9 months ago) (2023-07-03)
Treasury		Rogelio Ramírez de la O	3 August 2021 (2 years ago) (2021-08-03)
Economy		Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez	7 October 2022 (18 months ago) (2022-10-07)
Environment		María Luisa Albores	2 September 2020 (3 years ago) (2020-09-02)
Tourism		Miguel Torruco Marqués	1 October 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-10-01)
Civil Service		Roberto Salcedo Aquino	21 June 2021 (2 years ago) (2021-06-21)
Health		Jorge Alcocer Varela	1 December 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-12-01)
Development		Román Meyer Falcón	1 December 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-12-01)
Welfare		Ariadna Montiel Reyes	11 January 2022 (2 years ago) (2022-01-11)
Culture		Alejandra Frausto Guerrero	1 December 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-12-01)
Defense		Luis Cresencio Sandoval	1 December 2018 (5 years ago) (2018-12-01)
Navy		José Rafael Ojeda Durán	1 December 2023 (4 months ago) (2023-12-01)
Security		Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez	2020 (4 years ago) (2020)
Attorney General		Alejandro Gertz Manero	18 January 2019 (5 years ago) (2019-01-18)

Supreme Court

• President of the Supreme Court: Norma Lucía Piña Hernández

Governors

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

• Ana Lilia Rivera

President of the Chamber of Deputies

• Marcela Guerra Castillo

• 19 January – José Alberto García Vilano, the leader of the Gulf Cartel, is arrested in Monterrey.
• 30 January:
  • A bus collides with a truck on a highway in Elota, Sinaloa, killing 19 people and injuring 18 others.
  • Four people are killed and 15 others are rescued after a boat capsizes while travelling between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo.
• 5 February – Four taxi and bus drivers are killed during coordinated shootings in Chilpancingo.
• 26 February – Illegal loggers kill three forest rangers in the foothills of the Iztaccihuatl volcano in Puebla State.
• 1 March – Four soldiers are killed by a improvised explosive device in a trap near Aguililla, Michoacán. The soldiers were inspecting a camp, likely used by cartel members, when they stepped on an anti-personnel mine set in the underbrush.
• 18 March – Three officers of the Michoacan Civil Guard are killed in an attack on a highway between Patzcuaro and Uruapan.
• 27 March – At least four people have died after several wildfires spread across the State of Mexico.
• 5 April – After local police arrest former vice-president Jorge Glas at its embassy in Quito in violation of Article 22 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Mexico suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador.
• 8 April:
  • A total solar eclipse occurs over the states of Sinaloa, Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua, Colima, and Nayarit, the first total solar eclipse visible from Mexico since 1991.
  • The headquarters of the state government of Guerrero in Chilpancingo is set on fire by demonstrators protesting the Iguala mass kidnapping.
• 28 April – Eighteen people are killed and 32 others are injured as a bus crashes on a highway in Malinalco.

Scheduled events

• 2 June – 2024 Mexican general election
• 13 to 21 July – 2024 FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup

• List of Mexican films of 2024
• List of 2024 box office number-one films in Mexico
• List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

January

• 4 January – Rosie Reyes, 84, Olympic tennis player (1968).
• 5 January –
  • Jorge Aguilar Mora, 77, poet and writer, winner of Xavier Villaurrutia Award (2015).
  • Carlos Bremer, 63, businessman and philanthropist.
• 6 January – Amparo Rubín, singer and lyricist.
• 8 January –
  • Adan Canto, 42, actor (Designated Survivor, The Cleaning Lady).
  • Héctor Murguía Lardizábal, 70, politician, MP (1994–2012) and mayor of Ciudad Juárez (2004–2007, 2010–2013).
• 10 January – Sergio García Ramírez, 85, jurist and politician, attorney general (1982–1988) and secretary of labor and social welfare (1981–1982), president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2004–2007).
• 11 January – Agustín Téllez Cruces, 105, politician, interim governor of Guanajuato (1984–1985), justice (1974–1982) and president (1977–1982) of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
• 13 January – Ernesto Martens, 90, chemical engineer, secretary of energy (2000–2003).
• 16 January – José Agustín, 79, novelist (La tumba, De perfil, Ciudades desiertas), short-story writer, and essayist.
• 17 January – Carlos Rojas Gutiérrez, 69, politician and engineer, senator (2000–2006) and secretary of social development (1993–1998).
• 21 January – Jesús Federico Reyes Heroles, 71, politician, secretary of energy (1995–1997) and ambassador to the United States (1997–2000).
• 29 January – Héctor Sanabria, 78, football player (UNAM Pumas, national team) and manager (Toluca).

February

• 2 February –
  • Francisco Jara, 82, footballer (Guadalajara, national team).
  • Luis Morales Reyes, 87, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tacámbaro (1979–1985) and Torreón (1990–1999) and archbishop of San Luis Potosí (1999–2012).
• 3 February – Helena Rojo, 79, actress (The House in the South, The Great Adventure of Zorro, Misterio) and model.
• 5 February – Horacio Sánchez Unzueta, 74, politician, lawyer and ambassador, governor of San Luis Potosí (1993–1997) and deputy (1991–1992).
• 9 February – Renata Flores, 74, actress (Rosa salvaje, La usurpadora, Amores verdaderos) and rock singer.
• 14 February –
  • Diego Chávez, 28, footballer (Veracruz, Mannucci).
  • Sasha Montenegro, 78, actress (Rina, Una mujer marcada, Las vías del amor).
• 19 February – Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, 68, economist, secretary of finance and public credit (2018–2019).

April

• 20 April – Lourdes Portillo, 80, filmmaker (The Devil Never Sleeps) and activist.

• Outline of Mexico
• Index of Mexico-related articles
• History of Mexico

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