2021 In Mexico

This article lists events occurring in Mexico during the year 2021. The article lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels and will include a brief year-end summary of major social and economic issues. Cultural events, including major sporting events, are also listed. For a more expansive list of political events, see 2021 in Mexican politics and government.

Incumbents

President and cabinet

* President: Andres Manuel López Obrador

* Interior: Olga Sánchez Cordero
* Foreign Affairs: Marcelo Ebrard
* Treasury: Arturo Herrera
* Economy
**Graciela Márquez Colín (until January 5)
**Tatiana Clouthier Carrillo (starting January 5)
* Environment: Maria Luisa Albores
* Tourism: Miguel Torruco Marqués
* Civil Service: Irma Sandoval-Ballesteros
* Health: Jorge Alcocer Varela
* Development: Román Guillermo Meyer
* Welfare: Javier May Rodríguez
* Culture: Alejandra Frausto Guerrero
* Defense: Luis Cresencio Sandoval
* Navy: José Rafael Ojeda Durán
* Security: Alfonso Durazo Montaño
* Attorney General: Alejandro Gertz Manero

Supreme Court

* President of the Supreme Court: Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea

Governors

*Aguascalientes: Martín Orozco Sandoval
*Baja California: Jaime Bonilla
*Baja California Sur: Carlos Mendoza Davis
*Campeche: Carlos Miguel Aysa González acting governor
*Chiapas: Rutilio Escandón
*Chihuahua: Javier Corral Jurado
*Coahuila: Miguel Ángel Riquelme Solís
*Colima: José Ignacio Peralta
*Durango: José Rosas Aispuro
*Guanajuato: Diego Sinhué Rodríguez Vallejo
*Guerrero: Héctor Astudillo Flores
*Hidalgo: Omar Fayad
*Jalisco: Enrique Alfaro Ramírez
*Mexico City: Claudia Sheinbaum
*México (state): Alfredo del Mazo Maza
*Michoacán: Silvano Aureoles Conejo
*Morelos: Cuauhtémoc Blanco
*Nayarit: Antonio Echevarría García
*Nuevo León: Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, Independent
*Oaxaca: Alejandro Murat Hinojosa
*Puebla: Miguel Barbosa Huerta
*Querétaro: Francisco Domínguez Servién
*Quintana Roo: Carlos Joaquín González
*San Luis Potosí: Juan Manuel Carreras
*Sinaloa: Quirino Ordaz Coppel
*Sonora: Claudia Pavlovich Arellano
*Tabasco: Adán Augusto López Hernández
*Tamaulipas: Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca
*Tlaxcala: Marco Antonio Mena Rodríguez
*Veracruz: Cuitláhuac García Jiménez
*Yucatán: Mauricio Vila Dosal
*Zacatecas: Alejandro Tello Cristerna

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

Mónica Fernández Balboa

President of the Chamber of Deputies

Dulce María Sauri Riancho

Monthly events

January

*January 1 – Sixty tourists and crew are rescued when the ''Canuwa'' sinks from Quimixto beach in Puerto Vallarta. No one was injured.
*January 2 – Fireworks and bonfires cause the deaths of two adult women and a preteen girl in Topolobampo, Sinaloa.
*January 4
**COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico: Dr. Hugo López-Gatell announces that the government has authorized use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
**A fisherman dies after his boat collided on December 31, 2020, with the ''Farley Mowat'' operated by U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the Gulf of California. The family says the man's boat was rammed by the ''Farley Mowat'', and the conservationists claim their boat was attacked while removing illegal fishing nets.
*January 6 – Epiphany: Armed members of the Gulf Cartel are photographed delivering toys to children in Villa Progreso, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) distributes toys in Bonifacio Moreno "El Aguaje", Aguililla, Michoacán.
*January 7 – Mexican drug war: Nine killed at a funeral in Celaya, five others killed in other parts of the city.
*January 8
**Carlos Slim, with a fortune of US$62.1 billion, is the wealthiest person in Mexico, and María Asunción Aramburuzabala (US$5.8 billion), is the wealthiest woman, according to ''Forbes''.
**COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico: Thirty-five medical students working in a hospital in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, have tested positive; one died on January 4. Students have complained of low salaries, lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the fact that they have not been vaccinated but bureaucrats have.
**A fire in the hotel zone of Tulum, Quintana Roo, burns 36 businesses; 1,000 evacuated.
*January 9 – A fire in the Mexico City Metro Offices kills one, injures 32, and shuts down half the rapid transit lines in the city.
*January 10 – Speaking from Manzanillo, Colima, AMLO says that control of the ports by the Mexican Navy does not mean "militarization" of the ports.
*January 11
**A running gun battle leaves a police officer and nine gunmen dead in Santa Rosa de Lima (Villagrán), Guanajuato.
**Mexico and the United States agree to continue border restrictions until February 21.
*January 12 – A law prohibiting corporal punishment or humiliating treatment of children or teenagers goes into effect.
*January 13 – COVID-19 pandemic
**The Army and Navy begin distribution of 439,725 doses of vaccine for health workers at 879 hospitals across the country.
**Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl reports 100% occupation in its hospitals, and four patients with serious symptoms of COVID-19 are turned away.
*January 14 – Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero announces that General Salvador Cienfuegos, former Secretary of National Defense (2012–2018) will not be charged for drug offenses due to a lack of evidence.
*January 16 – COVID-19 pandemic: For the second day in a row, record-breaking 20,000 new cases are reported. A near-record 1,219 more deaths were also reported.
*January 18 – Twelve bodies whose hands were tied are found along a road in Las Choapas, Veracruz.
*January 21 – The Mexican National Guard stops a truck with 130 Central American migrants in Veracruz.
*January 22
**AMLO announces that private companies and the states will be allowed to purchase vaccines against COVID-19.
**Bank accounts of Juan Ramón Collado, former lawyer for ex-president Enrique Peña Nieto, and 22 other Mexican investors, with a value of €2 billion (MXN $48 billion), are seized in Andorra for financial fraud.
*January 23 – Nineteen burned bodies are found in Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas, likely victims of drug violence.
*January 24 – President López Obrador announces he has COVID-19. Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero will be taking over for him in his daily news conferences.
*January 25
**The 2020 Mexican census reveals there are 120 million people in the country with a median age of 29. 1.2 million are foreign born (800,000 in the United States), and 7.4 million people speak an indigenous language. The State of Mexico, with 17 million people, is the most populous; Colima, with 732,000, is the least.
**COVID-19 pandemic: The death toll passes 150,000.
*January 26 – A pack of dogs attacks and kills two adult kangaroos and a joey in La Pastora Zoo in Monterrey.
*January 30 – Four homes collapse and 35 are near collapse, displacing 50 families in colonia 3 de Octubre, delegación Sánchez Taboada, Tijuana because of heavy rains and flooding. The area was declared high risk in 2019.

February

*February 2 – CFE pardons thousands of debts going back 26 years worth MXN $11 billion in Tabasco.
*February 3 – Twelve police officers are arrested in the relation to the January 24 massacre of migrants in Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas.
*February 5 – A riot breaks out at Distribuidor Vial San Antonio in CDMX after police try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a Metrobús ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.
*February 10 – AMLO and other officials take a fifteen-minute Air Force inaugural flight from the Benito Juárez International Airport to the Santa Lucía Airport.
*February 14 – AMLO pays homage to Vicente Guerrero in Cuilapan de Guerrero, Oaxaca, but he confuses Guerrero and José María Morelos. American civil rights leader Martin Luther King III addresses the need for Mexico to reconcile itself with its past of slavery.
*February 15
**Temperatures as low as are recorded as shortages of natural gas lead to blackouts in Nuevo León, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, and Chihuahua along the Texas border. Five million are left in the dark.
**Over a dozen people have died in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; Río Bravo and Matamoros, Tamaulipas; and Monterrey, Nuevo León; because of winter storms.
*February 16
**COVID-19: Mexico passes two million confirmed coronavirus cases and 175,000 deaths, third highest in the world.
**Sixteen people are arrested for kidnapping in Veracruz, including former beauty queen Laura Mojica Romero, 25.
*February 17 – AMLO says Mexico will increase the use of oil and coal as well as purchasing three shiploads of natural gas to deal with power shortages. Periodic local outages will continue through February 21.
*February 18
**AMLO asks people to save energy.
**Ford Motor Company, Volkswagen, and Audi reduce production or close plants due to gas shortages. 120,000 employees of 30 companies in Ciudad Juárez lose their jobs in restaurants and factories due to gas shortages.
*February 19
**President AMLO announces that rescue of the 65 missing bodies from the 2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster has begun.
**Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offers to sell natural gas to Mexico despite the blockade.
*February 21 – A Learjet 45 belonging to the Air Force crashes before landing at El Lencero Airport in Xalapa. 102 aircraft belonging to SEDENA have crashed in since 2006, 48% in the drug war.
*February 24
**Ceremony honoring 200 years of the Plan de Iguala The plaza of Iguala is plastered with ''narcomantas'' (messages from drug cartels) in anticipation of a visit by Presidents López Obrador and Alberto Fernández of Argentina.
**The FGR issues a warrant to arrest Raúl Beyruti, president of GINgroup, for activities related to organized crime. Beyruti is accused of hiding MXN $34 billion from 92 outsourcing companies.
*February 25 – Twenty-seven migrants seeking asylum in the United States are allowed to leave their makeship camp in Matamoros, Tamaulipas and cross the border to make their cases. Some people were allowed to cross from Tijuana to San Ysidro, California last week.
*February 26 – A court rules that Rosario Robles′ offer to reveal everything she knows about the ''Estafa Maestra'' (″Master Scam″) in return for a reduced sentence is invalid because she refused to repay the MXN $5 billion she is accused of stealing.
*February 27 – The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) announced that it may reduce the protected area for the vaquita in the Sea of Cortés as there are only ten of the tiny porpoises left and it may never recuperate its historical range. The announcement comes two months after a fishing boat was deliberately sunk, killing a Mexican fisherman, during Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations.
*February 28 – Mexico and the European Union (EU) sign an agreement, part of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), to control the illicit entry of guns into Mexico. It is estimated that between 250,000 and 280,000 firearms are imported by organized crime every year.

March

*March 2 – Pemex and Braskem Idesa renegotiate their contract for natural gas, saving Pemex MXN $13.749 billion.
*March 8
**Metal walls measuring installed in Mexico City's Zócalo to protect historic buildings are turned into a shrine on International Women's Day. Demonstrators also express their rejection of Felix Salgado as a candidate for governor of Guerrero.
**Sixty-two police officers and 19 civilians are injured (ten seriously) as 20,000 demonstrate in Mexico City. There were demonstrations in every state.
**Writer and diplomat Andrés Roemer, who has been accused of sexual harassment and rape, seals his mansion in Colonia Roma off from the street with large wooden plates.
*March 9 – Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre (), 52, is arrested and charged with attempted sexual exploitation, false advertising, and criminal conspiracy.
*March 10
**Traffic is backed up at ten strategic points of the CDMX as members of the ''Fuerza Amplia de Transportistas'' (Broad Transportation Force) demand a MXN $2 increase in fares for concessioned minibuses, vans, and buses.
**Socorro Flores Liera takes the oath as the first Mexican woman to become a Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
*March 18
**Non-essential travel restrictions are beefed up along both the Mexico-Guautemala and Mexico-U.S. borders until April 21. The United States offers to lend 2.5 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
**At least thirteen police officers are ambushed and killed by a criminal gang in Coatepec Harinas, State of Mexico.
*March 20 – An unidentified Mexican girl, 9, drowns on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande (Soanish: Rio Bravo) near Eagle Pass, Texas.
*March 23 – Three leaders of La Familia Michoacana are identified and 25 others are detained in the March 18 killing of 13 policie officers in the State of Mexico.
*March 25
**The official number of COVID-19-related deaths is more than 200,000.
**Day of Indigenous Peoples' Resistance in Champotón, Campeche. AMLO and Bolivian President Luis Arce pay homage to the people of Chakán Putum.
*March 26 – Twenty homes are damaged and 1,100 people are evacuated as a forest fire ravages the ″Sierra de Santiago″, Nuevo León. Seventy-five forest fires rage in 20 states.
*March 27 – ''Reforma'' reports that drug kingpin Rafael Caro Quintero has lost his appeal to avoid extradition to the United States for the alleged murder in 1985 of DEA agent Kiki Camarena.
*March 28
**COVID-19: Data show 294,287-related virus deaths by March 15, 61.4% higher than previously reported. Excess deaths are said to be 417,002.
**The Velley of Mexico reaches record-high levels of air pollution, especially coarse particulate matter, PM10.

April

*April 1 – Authorities in Quintana Roo open an investigation into the death of a 12-year-old boy at Xcaret Park.
*April 2 – The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection in Ecatepec de Morelos dismantles a huachicolero center on more than containing more than 250 containers of .
*April 4 – Daylight saving time in Mexico begins.

May

*May 3 – At least 23 people are killed when a Mexico City Metro train collapses in the Tezonco– Olivos elevated interstation.
*May 8 – Hundreds rally at the site of a deadly Metro collapse to demand justice after revelations of ignored safety warnings, design problems and allegations of corruption by local officials.
*May 3 – '′Ceremonia de la Cruz Parlante′′ (Ceremony of the End of the Caste War of Yucatán) in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo.
*May 12 – Seven hundred years since the founding of Tenochtitlan.

June

*June 6
** 2021 Mexican legislative election
** 2021 Mexican local elections
**2021 Mexican gubernatorial elections
*June 10
**The Puebla sinkhole in Zacatapec, Puebla, grows to 400 feet (125 meters) across and 50 feet (15 meters) deep, swallowing a nearby house. The sinkhole first appeared on May 29.
**Residents of Los Guajes de Ayala, Coyuca de Catalán, Guerrero, use social media to ask for federal help after three days of being held hostage by La Familia Michoacana.
**After 150 hours of work, the last of seven bodies of coal miners trapped for a week in Múzquiz Municipality, Coahuila, is found.
*June 11 – Texas governor Greg Abbott says he will build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border, including the states of Chihuauhua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. Undocumented immigrants will be arrested for trespassing.

July

August

*August 13 – Five hundred years of the history of Mexico City.
*August 24 – Two hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Córdoba.

September

*September 7
**The Mexican Supreme Court unanimously rules that penalties for abortion are unconstitutional, thereby decriminalising it across the whole country.
**The 2021 Guerrero earthquake, measuring a magnitude 7.0, strikes near Acapulco, killing at least nine.

November

*November 7 – Mexico toll booth interstate disaster
*November 26 - November 2021 Mexico bus crash

December

* December 1 – Tula prison break
*December 9 – December 2021 Chiapas truck crash

Predicted and scheduled events

*TBA – The "Secretariat of Communications and Transportation" (SCT) will change its name to "Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation" (SICT).

Culture and entertainment

Art

*February 11 – Christie's auctions 37 pieces of prehispanic art (33 from Mexico) for €2.5 million despite objections from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) that some of the pieces were stolen and others were fake.

Literature

*February 18–March 1 — The :es:Feria Internacional del Libro del Palacio de Minería (International book fair at the Palacio de Minería) is held virtually for the first time.
*February 24 – Long Island University gives a George Polk Awards to the late journalist Regina Martínez Pérez of ('' Proceso'') and to ″Forbidden Stories″.

Music

Television

Sports

*January 31-February 6 — 2021 Caribbean Series at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlan. The games are given a special dispensation from health social distancing standards despite the fact the state of Sonora is on Orange (High) Alert.
*March 1–9 — 2020 Women's Baseball World Cup
*March 15–28 — 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship in Guadalajara.
*March 25 – The Mexican team made up of Alejandra Valencia, Aída Román, and Ana Paula Vázquez won the gold medal in the Pan-American Archery Championship in Monterrey.
*July–September — 2021 Leagues Cup
*August 24–September 5 — Mexico at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
*TBA
**2021 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship
**Mexico at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Deaths

January

*January 1
**Ximena Hita, 21, student and beauty queen ( Miss Aguascalientes 2019).
**Bolívar Roblero Zúñiga, 61, journalist and writer.
*January 5
**Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, medical intern in Hospital General de Ecatepec "Dr. José María Rodríguez"; COVID-19.
**Rafael Loyola Díaz, 68, sociologist; COVID-19.
**Jade Ivone Matu Pérez, 44, housewife from Cancun, burned in femicide.
*January 6
**Samara Aurora Arroyo Lemarroy, nutrologist (IMSS) in Xalapa, Veracruz; murdered (body found on this date).
**Antonio Camacho Romero, environmentalist (''Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos''); COVID-19.
**Rafael Loyola Díaz, sociologist (UNAM); COVID-19.
**Mauro Antonio Mendoza Juárez ("El Trup'o"), playwright, theater director, actor; renal failure.
**Tania Merino García, employee of Veracruz state government; COVID-19 complicated by government negligence.
**Rafael Monroy Martínez, biologist and environmentalist (''Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos''); COVID-19.
**, 91, comedian and actor.
**"Reyna Zapoteca" band members – Miguel Chávez, 18; Joaquín Antonio, 19; Basilio Antonio Cruz, 19; from Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca; shot.
*January 7
**Manuel Jimenez Guzmán, 71, politician ( and 33° Mason; COVID-19.
**Adriana Beatriz López Rodríguez, 27, housewife and mother from Cosoleacaque, Veracruz; murdered (body found on this date).
*January 9 – , 54, telenovela producer ('' Corazón salvaje'', ''Tres mujeres'', ''Amor de barrio''); COVID-19.
*January 10 – Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier ( 1998–2004).
*January 12 – Juan Antonio Acosta Cano, politician (, deputy in Congress of Guanajuato from Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas); shot.
*January 14
** Carlos Armando Biebrich, 81, lawyer and politician, Governor of Sonora (1973–1975), Deputy (1967–1970); COVID-19.
** José Luis Caballero, 65, Olympic footballer (1976).
**Jesús Escamilla, politician (53rd Congress of Morelos, founder of Humanist Party (Mexico)); COVID-19.
**Ivan Trejo, 42, poet (″Premio Nuevo León de Literatura en Poesía″), translator, and plawright.
*January 16
**William Berzunza, 84, baseball player.
**Samuel Sea Ilimuri, 57, politician (La Paz, Baja California Sue); COVID-19.
*January 17
**Jesús Belmont Vázquez, 63, journalist (''Grupo Sol'').
**José Clemente Orozco Farías, 60, editor and artist, grandson of José Clemente Orozco; heart attack. (b. 1960).
*January 18
**Lola Landa, 94, activist and writer; heart attack. (b. 1926).
**Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Archbishop of Mexico (since 2020); COVID-19.
*January 19 – Gustavo Peña, 78, football player (Monterrey, national team) and manager ( Leones Negros); COVID-19.
*January 20 – Gastón Padilla (″Padillita″), 75, actor (b. 1945).
*January 21 – , 75, comedian and actress ('' Dr. Cándido Pérez'').
*January 22
** José Ángel García, 69–70, actor and television director (''La rosa de Guadalupe''); pulmonary fibrosis.
**Martin Rodriguez Sánchez, businessman, Consejo Internacional de Empresarios (COINE); shot.
** Ráphael Steger Cataño, 74, diplomat.
*January 23
** Anibal Jr, 50, professional wrestler; COVID-19.
** Martha Madrigal, 92, poet.
*January 24 – Fidel Heras Cruz, community activist in Jamiltepec District, Oaxaca; shot.
*January 25 – Avelino Méndez Rangel, 62, politician, Deputy (2009–2012); COVID-19.
*January 26
**Silvia ″G″, 55, nurse in IMSS Hospital No. 36, Coatzacoalcos; died of lung failure after receiving the first dosis of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
**José Yolando Jarquín Bustamante, politician, municipal president of Xitlapehua, Oaxaca; COVID-19.
*January 28
** Rafael Heredia, 84, Olympic basketball player (1964, 1968).
**Mariana "N", 24, doctor in Ocosingo, Chiapas; raped and choked. (Body found on this date.)
**, 61, chemist and astrobiologist; COVID-19.
*January 29
** Beatriz Barba, 92, first woman to earn a degree in archaeology in Mexico, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (b. 1928).
**Baruch Pérez León, police chief of San Juan Evangelista, Veracruz; tortured and shot.
*January 30
**María de Jesús Chávez, politician (), municipal president of Tasquillo, Hidalgo; COVID-19.
**Ricardo Esponda Gaxiola, businessman (president of Coparmex in Morelos) and politician (); COVID-19.
**Rafael Gallardo García, 93, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares (1974–1987) and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico (1987–2003).
*January 31
**Genaro Domínguez Maldonado – lawyer, farm leader, and indigenous rights activist, participant in Mexican Movement of 1968 and member of ''Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indios''.
**José Luis Muñoz Soto, politician (), deputy in Hidalgo; COVID-19.
**Aparicio Reyes, municipal president Santos Reyes Tepejillo, Oaxaca; COVID-19.
**Genaro "La Burra" Torres, 81, footballer.

February

*February 4
**Antonio Azúcar Hernández, 44, Salvadoran diplomat, consul in Tapachula, Chiapas; COVID-19.
**Leobardo Ramos Lázaro, politician, municipal president of Chahuites, Juchitán District, Oaxaca; shot.
*February 5 - Francisco "El Potrillo" Avilán, 73, footballer.
*February 7
**Oscar González Loyo, 61, comic book artist, (founder and director of ''¡Ka-Boom! Estudio'' and creator of ''Karmatrón y los transformables''; heart attack.
** J. Guadalupe Huerta, 78, photographer and boxer.
**Ricardo Silva Elizondo, 67, singer and actor (''Destilando Amor'', ''El premio mayor'', ''Amigas y Rivales''); COVID-19.
*February 8
** Servando Cano Rodríguez, 78, singer-songwriter and producer.
**Octavio Misael Lorenzo Morales, politician, mayor of Atzacan, Veracruz; COVID-19.
**Beatriz Yamamoto Cázarez, 63, politician, Deputy (since 2012); COVID-19.
*February 11 – Gilberto Ortiz Parra, politician , precandidate for mayor of Úrsulo Galván, Veracruz; shot. Two police officers also died.
*February 12
**Ernesto Herrera, director and co-founder of Guanajuato International Film Festival (GIFF); COVID-19.
**Rodrigo Mejía, 45, soap opera actor (''El juego de la vida'', '' Mundo de fieras'').
*February 14
** Hugo Robles, 68, broadcaster and journalist.
**Catalina Romero, nurse (ISSSTE Zapata, Morelos); COVID-19.
*February 15
**Lucía Guilmáin, 83, actress (''Las fuerzas vivas'', ''Length of War'', and '' Darker Than Night''); COVID-19.
**Gladys Merlín Castro, politician (), former mayor of Cosoleacaque, Veracruz; shot
*February 16
**Enrique Chávez Nieto, doctor (IMSS Hospital General de Ginecobstetricia, Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico); COVID-19.
**Ángel Leyva Espinosa, doctor (ISSSTE Zapata, Morelos); COVID-19.
*February 17
**Juan Arvizu, journalist (''El Universal (Mexico City)''; COVID-19.
** Bruno Vogt, 26, bullfighter; cancer.
*February 18 – Violeta Dávalos, 52, operatic soprano, peritonitis.
*February 21
**Radamés Salazar Solorio, politician (, federal senator from Morelos
**Six members of the Air Force; plane crash in Xalapa
*February 22 – Miguel Arsenio Lara Sosa, 68, politician, member of the Congress of Yucatán (1998–2001), heart attack.
*February 23 – Luz María Puente, 97, pianist.
*February 24 - Germán "El Tamal" Ascencio, footballer (C.D. Oro).
*February 25 – Ignacio Sánchez Cordero, politician ( and ), candidate for mayor of Puerto Morelos Municipality, Quintana Roo; shot.
*February 28
**Gerardo Valtierra, sportscaster (Televisa); COVID-19
** Alfonso Hernández, chronicler ( Tepito Arte Acá)

March

*March 1 – Julio César Galindo Pérez, 54, businessman (Coparmex in San Luis Potosí); shot
*March 2 - Jorge "El Coco" Gómez, 74, footballer
*March 4
**Yuriel Armando González Lara, politician (), candidate for mayor of Nuevo Casas Grandes Municipality, Chihuahua; assassinated.
**Melquiades Vázquez Lucas (″El Pantera″), politician (), candidate for mayor of La Perla, Veracruz; assassinated.
*March 5
**Baltazar Gaona Sánchez, 80, politician (), five-time mayor of Tarímbaro, Michoacán; COVID-19
** Enrique González Rojo Jr., 92, writer and philosopher.
*March 6 – Cecilia Yépiz Reyna, former Secretary of Urban Development and Ecology of Nogales Municipality, Sonora; murdered (body found on this date)
*March 8
**″Cepillín″ (Ricardo González Gutiérrez), 75, clown and television personality; respiratory problems
**Mario "El Churumbel" Rey, footballer (Club León).
*March 9
**Félix Coronado Hernández, 56, union trade leader.
** Federico Fabregat, 46, visual artist, writer and musician.
**Ernesto San Román, 75, bullfighter.
**Isela Vega, 81, actress (''Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia'', winner of two Ariel Awards—'' La Viuda Negra'' and '' Herod's Law''); cancer.
*March 10
**Citlaly Malpica, 29, poet; cancer.
**Pedro Morales González, journalist (''Código Tlaxcala''); diabetes.
**Alfredo Sevilla, mayor of Casimiro Castillo, Jalisco, on leave. (body found on this date)
*March 11 – Carlos Rocha Pineda, 40, historian and cultural promoter.
*March 13
** José Antonio Rodríguez, 59, photography historian.
**Arturo Castro, 82, singer and composer ( Los Hermanos Castro).
*March 14
**Leonel Luna Estrada, politician; car accident.
** Eulalio Cervantes, 52, composer and saxophonist (Maldita Vecindad); COVID-19.
**Ernesto Rubio del Cueto, 84, lawyer and businessman.
*March 15 - Emiliano González, 65, writer.
*March 16
**Miguel Ángel Bonilla, doctor (AHMSA); COVID-19.
** Aarón Gamal, 62, former footballer; heart attack.
**Ernesto Francisco Valdés Cepeda, 60, politician, former mayor of Arteaga, Coahuila; COVID-19.
*March 17
** Jesús Manuel "Chumel" Gómez, 73, cultural promoter; cancer.
** Vicente Rojo Almazán, 89, Spanish-born Mexican painter, graphic designer and sculptor.
*March 19
** Isabel Castillo Orta, craftswoman.
** Heriberto López, softball player.
** Ernesto Mallard, 88, sculptor and painter; cardiorespiratory arrest.
* March 20
**Rafael Jacome Oropeza, holder of the Captaincy of the Port of Nuevo Vallarta.
**Ivonne Gallegos, politician (), candidate for mayor of Ocotlán de Morelos; shot.
* March 22 - Sandalio Sainz de la Maza, politician (), candidate for mayor of Tlalpan; COVID-19.
*March 23 – Alberto Ciurana, 60, TV producer (Televisa, TV Azteca); COVID-19.
* March 24
**Francisco "Chico" Andrade, 92, singer.
**Enrique de la Garza Toledo, 74, sociologist, researcher, professor and academic.
**Mayco Fabián Tapia Quiñones, 42, politician; shot.
* March 25 - Jorge A. Bustamante, 83, human rights of migrants defender and founder of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef).
*March 26 – José Refugio Torres López, farm leader (El Magueyal, Tacoaleche, Zacatecas); COVID-19.
* March 27
**Emmanuelle Cueto Ramos, 31, Catholic priest and influencer; cancer.
**Pablo Mulás del Pozo, scientist and researcher; COVID-19.
**Victoria Salazar, migrant originally from El Salvador; feminicide
* March 28
**Javier Molina, 78, poet and journalist (''La Jornada''); liver problems.
**Karla Fernanda Salas Salazar, 20, football player (VQueens Saltillo).
*March 29
**Salvador Lizárraga, 88, musician (La Original Banda el Limón).
**Germán Orozco Sarro, businessman (Ultramar and Aqua World).
**Inocente Peñaloza, 82, chronicler and journalist.
**Rafael Rosales Coria, 59, magistrate, president of the Court of Administrative Justice of the State of Michoacán (TJAM); COVID-19.
*March 30
**Leobardo Aguilar Flores, politician (), mayor of Soltepec; COVID-19.
**Sara Monar, actress (''Como Dice el Dicho'', ''La Rosa de Guadalupe''); COVID-19.
*March 31
**Leobardo Aguilar Flores, municipal president of Soltepec, Puebla; COVID-19.
**Luis de Antuñano, 82, painter.
**Alejandro Galicia Juárez, politician (), Candidate for alderman in Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato; shot.

April

*April 1
**Arturo González Orduño, 61, journalist (Grupo Fórmula).
**Jaime Jiménez Ruiz, environmentalist; fifth person murdered for opposing construction of a hydroelectric plant on Río Verde.
*April 2
**Gonzalo Elías Zopiyactle Colohua, 48, politician, former mayor of Mixtla, Puebla; murdered. (body found on this date)
**Marco Antonio Cruz, 64, photographer.
** Chepina Peralta, 90, chef and TV personality.
**Gilberto "Sahuaripa" Valenzuela, singer.
*April 3 - Chepina Peralta, 90, chef and television personality.
*April 4
** Irene Hernández de Jesús, 62, activist and politician.
** Francisco Haghenbeck, 56, writer and comics screenwriter; COVID-19.
*April 5
** Miguel Ángel Aguilar López, judge and academic; COVID-19.
**José Antonio Bátiz Vázquez, 74, historian.
*April 6
**Alicia Cardona, 66, model and beauty queen (Miss Guanajuato 1978).
**Leticia Colín, politician, precandidate for mayor of Cuautitlán; diabetes.
**René Coulomb Bosc, 76, sociologist and urban planner.
**Adriana Tavira García, journalist (Periódico Impulso); COVID-19.
*April 9
**Pablo "Curro" Cruz, 57, bullfighter.
**Rodolfo Disner, 91, plastic artist.
**Mariana Navarro, singer (Micro Chips) and theater actress (''Los tenis rojos''); COVID-19.
**Becky Treves, food stylist.
*April 10 - Juan Carlos Díaz Aragón, writer, humanist, historian, interpreter of pre-Columbian codices, philanthropist, and teacher of Mexican Literature.
*April 11 - Arcadio Huchim, radio news anchorman; COVID-19.
*April 12
**El Engendro, 60, wrestler; respiratory failure.
**Carlos González Lobo, architect and professor.
**Luis Vargas, politician (), former mayor of Irapuato.
**Roberto Velasco, 63, oceanologist; cancer.
*April 13
**Fernando Tapia Rivera, professor (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro) and writer; heart attack.
**Rogelio Torres Ortega, politician, mayor of Tepoztlán; COVID-19.
*April 15
**Armando Cuellar Moreno, politician, candidate for mayor of Cuauhtémoc; COVID-19.
**Patricio Castillo, 81, actor (''La mexicana y el güero'', '' Mi querida herencia'' and ''Mi marido tiene más familia'').
** Jorge Fitch, baseball player.
*April 17 - Marcelino Aceves Zamora, footballer.
*April 18
**Alejandro Aguirre, journalist; COVID-19.
**Alicia Arellano Tapia, 86, politician.
**Ian Legorreta, 19, soccer player (Atlético San Luis); car accident.
*April 20 - Toño Velasco, puppeteer.
*April 21
**Blanca Alfaro Vázquez, politician (), candidate for federal deputy; heart attack.
**Enrique Becker, actor (''Mundo de juguete'', '' La casa de las flores'', ''Lazos de amor'').
*April 22 - Toni Rodríguez, 51, dubbing actress; cancer.
*April 24
**Francisco Gerardo Rocha Chávez, politician (), candidate for local deputy; shot.
** Sergio Esquivel, 74, singer-songwriter.
**Manuel Guízar, actor.
**Blanca López, politician, candidate for mayor of Montemorelos; car accident.
*April 25 - Alex Quintero, singer.
*April 26 - Ramiro Ayala Garza, 75, politician (), candidate for mayor of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León.
*April 27
**Diana Pérez, 51, dubbing actress.
**Jesús Rejón Aguayo, 95, baseball player, manager, advisor.
*April 28 - Héctor "Cuirio" Santoyo, 67, former soccer player (Esmeraldas del León).
*April 29 - , 74, military officer and prisoner of conscience; COVID-19.
*April 30
**José Garfias, 79, cattle businessman.
**Armando Nava, 80, painter.

May

*May 2 - José Octavio García Larrañaga, cyclist; hit by a car.
*May 3 - Felipe Zambrano Páez, bullfighter, politician.
*May 6 - Osvaldo Trejo, 32, dubbing actor.
*May 7
**Luis Mario Lamadrid Moreno, 86, announcer and journalist.
**Ramón Mimiaga Padilla, playwright, screenwriter and cultural promoter.
*May 9 - Julio Verdugo, 23, Regional Mexican singer, shot.
*May 10
** Miguel "El Avión" Arellano Moreno, 80, basketball player; cancer.
**Valentín Contreras del Toro, politician (), candidate for mayor of Armería, Colima; COVID-19.
**Dragón, eland antelope from the San Juan de Aragón Zoo; cardio-respiratory failure.
**Gustavo Mazón Lizárraga, 79, businessman.
*May 13 - Abel Murrieta Gutiérrez, 58, politician and lawyer ( LeBarón and Langford families massacre), deputy (2015–2018), shot.
*May 14
** Jaime Garza, 67, actor (''Navajeros'', ''Missing'', ''The Falcon and the Snowman''), complications from diabetes.
**Ivonne Govea, actress and vedette.
*May 16 - Amín Zarur Ménez, politician, former mayor of Acapulco.
*May 17
**Margarita Domínguez Ocampo, candidate for municipal president of Mazatlán, Sinaloa; cancer.
**Eduardo Fuhrken Pinelli, businessman.
**René Cardona III, 59, film director (''Vacaciones de terror'').
*May 19
**Víctor Hugo Pérez Cruz, ballet director.
**Guillermo 'Tigre' Sepúveda, 87, soccer player.
**Francisco Verdayes, 55, journalist; COVID-19.
**Guillermo Sepúlveda, 86, footballer (Guadalajara, Oro, national team).
*May 20 - , 68, musician and composer; cancer.
*May 21 - Álvaro Francisco Carreño, 77, businessman.
*May 22 - Enrique Capetillo González, politician.
*May 23 - Hugo Delgado Lomelí, entrepreneur and tourism promoter.
*May 24 - Marcelino Gómez Galván, footballer ( Atlas F.C.).
*May 25 -
**Alma Rosa Barragán, candidate for mayor of Moroleón; shot.
**Juan Máximo Martínez

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