This article lists events occurring in Mexico during 2025. The list also contains names of the incumbents at federal and state levels and cultural and entertainment activities of the year.
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake hits Michoacán, injuring two people.[3]
23 January – The office of Sinaloa governor Rubén Rocha Moya in Culiacán is stormed by demonstrators protesting over the death of two minors in a carjacking.[4]
1 February – US President Donald Trump imposes a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico.[6]
3 February – The US suspends its increased tariffs on Mexican imports for a month following and agreement between President Trump and President Sheinbaum for her to deploy 10,000 National Guard soldiers to the US-Mexico border.[7]
13 February – Marco Ebben, a fugitive and convicted drug lord from the Netherlands who had previously faked his own death, is reported to have been killed in a shootout in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico.[9]
20 February – Canada designates the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Carteles Unidos, the Cártel del Noreste, the Gulf Cartel, and La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization as terrorist organizations.[11]
A bus collides with a tractor near Velardeña, Durango, killing 14 people and injuring 10 others.[18]
14 March – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Oaxaca, injuring four people.[19]
18 March – The Congress of Mexico City votes 61–1 in favor of outlawing killing of bulls in bullfighting matches and the use of sharp objects that could injure them.[20]
21 March – Club León are disqualified from the upcoming 2025 FIFA Club World Cup after FIFA rules that the club had failed to meet tournament regulations on multi-club ownership regarding its connections to Grupo Pachuca, which also owns C.F. Pachuca.[21]
23 March – A van falls into a ravine before catching fire in Santiago, Nuevo León, killing 12 people and injuring four others.[22]
29 March – A nationwide ban on the sale of junk food in schools comes into effect.[23]
31 March – The United States imposes sanctions on 13 individuals and entities for their involvement in money laundering for factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.[24]
April
4 April – The first human case of avian flu belonging to the Type A H5N1 strain in Mexico is discovered in a three-year-old patient in Torreón, Coahuila, who originated from the state of Durango.[25] She dies on 8 April, also making her the first human H5N1 fatality in Mexico.[26]
28 April – Mexico reaches an agreement with the United States providing for a greater share by the US of water flow in six tributaries of the Rio Grande.[30]
20 May – The personal secretary of Mexico City mayor Clara Brugada and another adviser are shot dead in the Moderna neighborhood.[39]
20 May – The United States imposes sanctions on two members of the Cártel del Noreste.[40]
22 May – A court in the United States awards the Mexican government $2.448 billion in damages from former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted and imprisoned in the US for drug charges, and his wife Linda Cristina Pereyra.[41]
5 June – The Supreme Court of the United States dismisses a lawsuit filed by the Mexican government that sought to hold American gun manufacturers liable for the illegal sale of firearms to drug cartels and other criminal organizations in Mexico.[50]
6 June –
An aircraft conducting pest control operations crashes near Tapachula, Chiapas, killing all three people on board.[51]
The mayor of Tacámbaro in Michoacán, Salvador Bastida García, is killed along with his security detail in an ambush.[52]
8 June – Chiapas police enter the Guatemalan border town of La Mesilla during an operation that leaves four gunmen dead.[53]
9 June – The United States imposes sanctions on Archivaldo Iván Guzmán Salazar and Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, sons of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.[54]
16 June – The mayor of San Mateo Piñas in Oaxaca, Lilia Gema García Soto, is killed along with another official in an attack by gunmen on the municipal hall.[55]
17 June – The mayor of Tepalcatepec in Michoacán, Martha Laura Mendoza, is killed along with her husband while leaving her home.[56]
18 June – Debris from a failed rocket launch by SpaceX in Texas lands over the border in Tamaulipas, prompting an investigation into contamination by the Mexican government.[57]
19 June – Hurricane Erick makes landfall in Oaxaca as a category 3 storm, leaving at least one person dead.[58]
25 June –
Twelve people are killed in a gun attack on a religious celebration in Irapuato, Guanajuato.[59]
The United States imposes sanctions on the Mexican banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco and the brokerage firm Vector Casa de Bolsa for allegedly facilitating cash transfers for drug cartels.[60]
26 June – The accumulated remains of 389 people are discovered in suspicious circumstances at a crematorium in Ciudad Juárez.[61]
30 June – The bodies of 20 people are discovered along two separate sections of a highway near Culiacán.[62]
July
4–5 July – Protests break out in Mexico City denouncing gentrification and rent increases, with violent clashes between protesters and tourists occurring in the Condesa and Roma districts.[63]
7 July – Four million gallons of stolen fuel products are recovered from two abandoned trains near Ramos Arizpe and Saltillo in Coahuila.[65]
9 July –
Ten people are sentenced to 141 years' imprisonment on abduction and murder charges relating to the Jalisco extermination camp.[66]
El Salvador recalls its ambassador to Mexico, Rosa Delmy Cañas, after Mexican security minister Omar García Harfuch claims that authorities had intercepted an aircraft off the coast of Colima that was transporting 428 kilograms of cocaine and originated from El Salvador.[67]
24 July – Mexico and the United States sign an agreement for a comprehensive resolution of environmental and sewerage problems in the Tijuana River.[68]
30 July – The bodies of 32 people are discovered buried in a property in Irapuato, Guanajuato.[69]
August
1 August – Israel Vallarta, the alleged leader of a kidnapping group who was arrested and imprisoned for more than 20 years in a case of organized crime and kidnapping that also involved his French girlfriend Florence Cassez, is released after charges against him are dismissed.[70]
2 August –
Seven inmates are killed and eleven others are injured in a riot at a prison in Tuxpan, Veracruz.[71]
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Oaxaca, injuring two people.[72]
5 August – Activist Luis García Villagrán is arrested in Tapachula on charges related to his advocacy for migrants.[74]
6 August – The United States imposes sanctions on rapper Ricardo Hernández aka El Makabelico for alleged money laundering for the Cártel del Noreste.[75]
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