The following is a list of massacres that have taken place in the North American country of Mexico.
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Magdalena massacre | 3 November 1757 | Magdalena de Kino, Sonora | 31 | Seri people attack a village of Spanish inhabitants |
| Second Magdalena massacre | November 1776 | Magdalena de Kino, Sonora | Unknown | All of Magdalena de Kino's residents died in an attack from the Seri people |
| Wells of Baján massacre | 21 March 1811 | Wells of Baján, Coahuila | 40 | |
| Goliad massacre | 27 March 1836 | Goliad County, Texas | 342 | 465 prisoners. 28 escaped, 20 spared as workers, 75 spared as unarmed captives. |
| Dawson massacre | 17 September 1842 | near San Antonio de Bexar, Texas | 36 | 15 captured and 36 killed out of a total of 54 Texan men. |
| Black bean episode | 25 March 1843 | Saltillo, Coahuila | 17 | Mexicans tell Texan and American diplomats that 1/10 of the prisoners they captured would die. They force Texans to choose out of a random bowl of beans, and those who chose a black bean were shot. |
| 1846 Monterrey massacre | 23 September 1846 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~60 | Ampudia ordered the white flag of surrender to be flown. Many American troops, especially the Texas Rangers ran about looting and burning houses, raping women, and killing entire families of Monterrey. [1] |
| 1847 Monterrey massacre | 4 January 1847 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | ~50 | Texas volunteers blamed the Mexicans for the death of several of their companions in the occupied Monterrey. Consequently, American troops began shooting all civilians they encountered. The Houston Telegraph and Register, citing military sources reported over 50 killed. [2] |
| Saint Patrick's Battalion massacre | 10-13 September 1847 | Chapultepec, Mexico City | 50 | 50 surrendered Irish volunteers who fought as part of the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican–American War, collectively known as Saint Patrick's battalion, were killed by the U.S. Army. |
| Massacre at Janos | 5 March 1851 | Janos, Chihuahua | Unknown | |
| Crabb massacre | 1-8 April 1857 | Caborca, Sonora | 84 | 84 killed out of a total of 85 American men. |
| Mazocoba massacre | 18 January 1900 | Guaymas, Sonora | ~400 | Also known as the Battle of Mazocoba |
| Mazatán massacre | 8 June 1902 | Quizuani Ranch, Sonora | 127 | Reprisal massacre during the Yaqui Wars. 78 men, 26 women, and 20 children died. Some of the wounded were taken to Hermosillo Municipal Hospital afterwards. [3] |
| Cananea strike | 1 June 1906 | Cananea, Sonora | 23 | 22 wounded |
| Río Blanco strike | 7-8 January 1907 | Río Blanco, Veracruz | 50-70 | Federal troops put down rioting textile workers |
| Torreón massacre | 15 May 1911 | Torreón, Coahuila | 300 | Chinese Mexicans were targeted |
| San Pedro de la Cueva massacre | 2 December 1915 | San Pedro de la Cueva, San Pedro de la Cueva Municipality, Sonora | 91 | During the Mexican Revolution, on the morning of December 2, 1915, after the disastrous campaign of his army in the state of Sonora, Pancho Villa angrily arrived in San Pedro de la Cueva and ordered the mass execution of all the residents of the town. He blamed them for the deaths of five of his men. An outpost under the command of one of her colonels, Margarito Orozco, had apprehended 300 men, women and children, training them in front of the church. When Villa ordered his officers to initiate the executions, Colonel Macario Bracamontes, who was active in his ranks, convinced him to spare the lives of a hundred women and children. Immediately, the rest of the prisoners, who numbered 112 men, were lined up against one of the walls of the Catholic church to be put under arms; at the beginning of the executions, the village priest, Andrés A. Flores Quesney, pleaded three times for the lives of the condemned, including his father, but Villa ended up killing him with a shot. The killing continued. [4] [5] [6] [7] |
| Santa Isabel massacre | 10 January 1916 | near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua | 18 | Villistas stopped a train near Santa Isabel, Chihuahua and killed around 17 American passengers from the ASARCO company of Tucson, Arizona. [8] [9] |
| Villa Milpa Alta massacre | 15 October 1916 | Milpa Alta, Mexico City | 150-200 | Massacre of 150 to 200 civilians, including children, perpetrated by Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution [10] |
| 1935 Revolution Day Zócalo Battle | 20 November 1935 | Zócalo, Mexico City | 3 | 50 wounded, a violent conflict that broke out during the Revolution Day festival of 1935 at the Zócalo between members of the Revolutionary Mexicanist Action and multiple organizations associated with the Mexican Communist Party. |
| León massacre | 2 January 1946 | León, Guanajuato | 30-100 | Federal Troops called in by the Governor of the State of Guanajuato, fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing at least 40 and up to 100 people [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] |
| La Alameda massacre | 7 July 1952 | Mexico City | 200-500 [17] | Massacre of Henriquis protesters who were protesting against fraud and irregularities in the 1952 presidential elections by the Mexican army. [18] [19] |
| San Luis Potosí massacre | 15 September 1961 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí | Unknown | [20] |
| Atoyac massacre | 18 May 1967 | Atoyac de Álvarez, Guerrero | 5-11 [21] | Police shot against protesters in the town of Atoyac de Álvarez. The protests were against the imposition of school uniforms and tuition fees. The massacre resulted in Lucio Cabañas creating a guerilla group that operated in the mountains of Guerrero the following years. |
| Cosalá massacre | December 1967 | Cosalá, Sinaloa | 7 | A drunken Mexican soldier killed six people in Cosalá, Mexico. The soldier shot dead three other soldiers, the wife of a soldier, and two other people, before being killed himself. [22] |
| San Miguel Canoa Massacre | 14 September 1968 | village of San Miguel Canoa, Puebla | 4 | A right-wing priest incited a mob of villagers to attack five mountain climbers who he believed were communists, 3 wounded [23] |
| Tlatelolco massacre | 2 October 1968 | Mexico City | 44-400 | Government troops massacred between 44 (officially) and 400 (according to human rights activists, CIA documents and independent investigations) students 10 days before the 1968 Summer Olympics taking place in Mexico City, and then tried to wash the blood away, along with evidence of the massacre. |
| Huehuetlán el Chico massacre | 15 February 1969 | Huehuetlán el Chico, Puebla | 18 [24] | Murder of peasants from Huehuetlán el Chico who were protesting against a mayor [25] [26] |
| Monte de Chila massacre | 28 January 1970 | Monte Chila, Jopala, Puebla | 80 - 324 | Massacre of indigenous Totonac, perpetrated by the Mexican army, it is estimated that around 324 people died in the massacre, including children, women, elderly people and men; however, there are no official figures [27] [28] |
| Corpus Christi massacre | 10 June 1971 | Mexico City | 120 | Also known as "El Halconazo", a student march got brutally attacked by a shock group called Los Halcones |
| Huitzotlaco Massacre | 14 May 1977 | Huitzotlaco, Atlapexco, Hidalgo | 3 | Murder of 3 peasants by gunmen hired by caciques, 12 wounded [29] [30] [31] |
| Masacre del Penal de Oblatos | 10 October 1977 | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 14 | 14 inmates murdered and seven injured. [32] |
| Tzacuala massacre | 21 January 1980 | Tzacuala, Huautla, Hidalgo | 4 | 4 peasants killed in Ambush in a village in Tzacauala. [33] [34] |
| Golonchán Viejo massacre | 15 June 1980 | Golonchán Viejo, Sitalá, Chiapas | 12 | Armed civilians and soldiers murdered at least 12 Tzeltal peasants. 40 wounded [35] [36] |
| Tula massacre | 14 January 1982 | Atotonilco de Tula, Hidalgo | 13 | 13 tortured bodies were found at Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico at the time of Arturo Durazo Moreno Administration [37] |
| Pantepec massacre | 2 June 1982 | Pantepec, Puebla | 27 | Massacre of 27 Totonac and Tepehuán indigenous peasants by municipal police, white guards and hired killers. [38] [39] |
| Centro Penitenciario Michoacán riot | 20 July 1988 | Michoacán | 10 | 13 wounded [40] [41] |
| Christine nightclub shootout | 8 November 1992 | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | 6-20 | Members of the Sinaloa Cartel (according to some sources accompanied by elements of the state's judicial police) attacked the Disco Christine in Puerto Vallarta, leaving a balance of 6 people dead and 3 injured [42] [43] [44] [45] |
| Aguas Blancas massacre | 28 June 1995 | Aguas Blancas, Guerrero | 17 | Peasant protestors demanding drinking water, schools, hospitals, and roads were shot by motorized police |
| San Pedro Nixtalucum Massacre | 14 March 1997 | San Pedro Nixtalucum, El Bosque, Chiapas | 4 | The State Police assault civilians sympathetic to the EZLN, resulting in 4 deaths, 29 wounded, 27 detained and 300 displaced [46] [47] [48] |
| Max Fim restaurant shooting | 3 August 1997 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 6 | 3 wounded [49] [50] [51] [52] |
| Acteal massacre | 22 December 1997 | Chenalhó, Chiapas | 45 | Massacre carried out by paramilitary forces of 45 people attending a prayer meeting of indigenous townspeople, who were members of the pacifist group Las Abejas ("The Bees"), in the village of Acteal, municipality of Chenalhó, in the Mexican state of Chiapas. |
| El Charco massacre | 7 June 1998 | Town of El Charco, Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero | 11 | 11 people were killed while sleeping in the local school, Caritino Maldonado by soldiers [53] [54] [55] |
| El Sauzal massacre | 17 September 1998 | El Sauzal, Baja California | 19 | A command of armed men arrives at the El Rodeo farm in Ensenada, and executes three entire families. 19 people were killed and 2 were seriously wounded [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] |
| El Limoncito de Alayá Massacre | 14 February 2001 | El Limoncito de Alayá, Cosalá, Sinaloa | 12 | Tijuana Cartel gunmen try to kill drug lord Javier Torres Félix and his brother Manuel at El Limoncito de Alayá, a farm in the municipality of Cosalá, Sinaloa After failing to find the two, the gunmen sought revenge by killing twelve residents of the area. 3 wounded [66] [67] [68] [69] |
| San Cristóbal Attack | 6 May 2002 | San Cristóbal, Ecatepec | 2 | A desperate mechanic Jose Luis Nieto Avila runs over several children and teachers at the Gabriela Mistral Daycare Center, where five-year-old Adriana Martínez and three-year-old Rodrigo Reyes lost their lives. 22 wounded [70] [71] [72] [73] |
| 2003 shootout Nuevo Laredo | 17 April - 4 May 2012 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 3 | 6 wounded |
| San Jerónimo de Juárez Massacre | 31 July 2005 | San Jerónimo de Juárez, Guerrero | 12 | 2 wounded. At least 11 people were murdered in the coastal municipality of San Jerónimo de Juárez by a former military man who was apparently drugged, who was then shot and wounded. He was lynched by the villagers [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] |
| 2006 civil unrest in San Salvador Atenco | 3-4 May 2006 | San Salvador Atenco, State of Mexico | 2 | 200-300 wounded [82] [83] |
| Río Bravo Ambush | 29 November 2007 | Río Bravo, Tamaulipas | 6 | Mexican politician Juan Antonio Guajardo and five companions were murdered in an ambush in Río Bravo [84] |
| La Marquesa massacre | 12 September 2008 | Ocoyoacac, State of Mexico | 24 | 24 bodies are found at a national park called La Marquesa; all bodies were shot and showed signs of torture [85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92] [93] [94] |
| La Mesa prison riots | 13-18 September 2008 | Tijuana, Baja California | 22 | 12 wounded |
| Morelia grenade attacks | 15 September 2008 | Morelia, Michoacán | 8 | 132 wounded. A series of grenades are detonated in crowds gathered to celebrate Independence Day. |
| 2009 Ciudad Juárez prison riot | 4 March 2009 | Cerezo state prison, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 20 | 15 wounded |
| Ciudad Juárez rehab center attack | 2 September 2009 | El Aliviane centre, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 18 | 3 wounded |
| Balderas metro station shooting | 18 September 2009 | Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City | 2 | A religious fanatic, Luiz Felipe Hernández, kills a civilian and a police officer at the Balderas station of the Metro Collective Transport System, 5 Wounded [95] |
| Villas de Salvárcar massacre | 31 January 2010 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 15 | Cartel members massacre 16 teenagers, outraging Ciudad Juarez residents. |
| Guerrero mass graves | June 2010 | Taxco, Guerrero | 55 | Cartels massacre civilians |
| 2010 Chihuahua shootings | 10 June 2010 | Second floor, Templo Cristiano Fe y Vida (Christian Faith and Life Temple), Chihuahua | 19 | 4 wounded |
| Nuevo León mass graves | 25 June 2010 | Nuevo León | ~70 | Bodies found in mass graves across Nuevo León |
| Ciudad Victoria ambush | 28 June 2010 | Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas | 7 | The candidate of PRI Rodolfo Torre Cantú was murdered along with six of those in his entourage by agents of a drug cartel |
| 2010 Saric shootout | 1 July 2010 | Sáric, Sonora | 21 | 6 wounded |
| 2010 Torreón Massacre | 18 July 2010 | Torreón, Coahuila | 17-18 | 18 injured [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] |
| 1st San Fernando massacre | 24 August 2010 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 72 | 72 undocumented migrants trying to reach the United States were killed by Los Zetas. The victims were interrogated and shot at a nearby warehouse. Initial reports suggested they were killed because of refusing to join Los Zetas as hitmen or because they were mistaken for Gulf Cartel members, but the motives are still unclear. [102] |
| Tepic Massacre | 27 October 2010 | Tepic, Nayarit | 15 | An armed group that descended from trucks shot down 15 young people who worked at a car wash in the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood in the south of the city. [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] |
| 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion | 19 December 2010 | San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla | 29 | 52 wounded |
| Allende massacre | 18-20 March 2011 | Allende, Coahuila | 42-300+ | |
| Monterrey triple murder of journalists | 25 March 2011 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 3 | By Los Zetas |
| 2nd San Fernando massacre | 6 April 2011 | San Fernando, Tamaulipas | 193 | Gruesome massacre of 193 bus passengers by Los Zetas using barbaric, gladiator style tactics. A similar attack happened in the same municipality in 2010 (2010 San Fernando massacre). |
| Ruiz massacre | 25 May 2011 | Ruiz, Nayarit | 29 | 3 wounded. One of the most violent clashes between criminal organizations in Mexico between Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas. [108] [109] [110] |
| Coahuila mass graves | 3 June 2011 | Piedras Negras, Coahuila | 38 | Mass grave covered up by drug cartels |
| Durango massacres | April 2011 | Durango, Durango | 340 | Various mass graves discovered between April 2011 and February 2012. |
| Monterrey casino attack | 25 August 2011 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 52 | Drug cartel set a casino on fire |
| Altamira prison brawl | 4 January 2012 | Altamira, Tamaulipas | 31 | |
| Apodaca prison riot | 19 February 2012 | Apodaca, Nuevo León | 44 | |
| Nuevo Laredo massacres | 17 April 2012 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 37 | Various massacres between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas having a turf war |
| 2012 Boca del Río murder of journalists | 6 May 2012 | Boca Del Río, Veracruz | 4 | |
| Cadereyta Jiménez massacre | 13 May 2012 | Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León | 49 | Los Zetas murder Mexican civilians, either Gulf Cartel members or US-bound immigrants. |
| San Luis Potosí massacre | 9 August 2012 | San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí (state) | 14 | The Mexican police found 14 dead bodies stuffed inside a SUV on 9 August 2012 along a highway in the city of San Luis Potosí |
| La Pila Prison riot | 27 April 2013 | La Pila, San Luis Potosí | 13 | 65 wounded [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] |
| Lagos de Moreno massacre | 7 July 2013 | Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco | 6 | Kidnapping and assassination of 6 students by CJNG [117] |
| Loma Blanca Massacre | 22 September 2013 | Loma Blanca, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 10 | Murder of 10 people celebrating the victory of a baseball team by gunmen [118] [119] |
| Tlatlaya massacre | 30 June 2014 | San Pedro Limón, Tlatlaya, Michoacán | 22 | 22 civilians executed by government troops. [120] [121] [122] |
| Iguala massacre | 26 September 2014 | Iguala, Guerrero | 43 | Mass kidnapping and murder of male students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College |
| Apatzingán massacre | 5 January 2015 | Apatzingán, Michoacán | 16 | 16 unarmed civilians killed by federal police outside Apatzingán city hall. [123] [124] [125] [126] |
| 2015 Ocotlán ambush | 19 March 2015 | Ocotlán, Jalisco | 11 | 5 wounded |
| 2015 San Sebastián del Oeste ambush | 6 April 2015 | San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco | 15 | A convoy of the Jalisco State Police was ambushed by suspected members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in a mountain road in San Sebastián del Oeste, Jalisco. Fifteen policemen were killed and five were wounded |
| 1 May 2015 Jalisco attacks | 1 May 2015 | Jalisco | 18 | |
| Tanhuato–Ecuandureo shootout | 22 May 2015 | Tanhuato, Michoacán | 22-42 | [127] [128] |
| Colonia Narvarte murders | 31 July 2015 | Colonia Narvarte, Mexico City | 5 | Murder of photographer and journalist Rubén Espinosa along with four other women [129] [130] |
| Topo Chico prison riot | 10 February 2016 | Monterrey, Nuevo León | 49 [131] to 52+ [132] | Most deadly riot in Mexican penal history |
| 2016 conflict in Nochixtlán | 19 June 2016 | Asunción Nochixtlán, Oaxaca | 8 | 108 wounded |
| Colonia El Triunfo massacre | 29 April 2018 | El Triunfo, Iztapalapa, Mexico City | 5 | 5 men are shot dead on El Triunfo street in Iztapalapa [133] [134] |
| Salamanca nightclub shooting | 9 March 2019 | Salamanca, Guanajuato | 15 | |
| Minatitlán shooting | 19 April 2019 | Minatitlán, Veracruz | 14 | [135] |
| Uruapan massacre | 8 August 2019 | Uruapan, Michoacán | 19 | 19 bodies found in three parts of the city |
| Coatzacoalcos nightclub fire | 27 August 2019 | Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz | 31 [136] -32 [137] | 31-32 people die in an arson attack on a bar in Coatzacoalcos, by Jalisco New Generation Cartel |
| 2019 Western Michoacán clashes | 30 August 2019 | Tepalcatepec, Michoacán | 9 | 11 wounded |
| 2019 Auililla police massacre | 14 October 2019 | Aguililla, Michoacán | 13 [138] | A convoy of five police trucks carrying a combined total of 42 police officers were dispatched to serve a warrant at a home in El Aguaje when over 30 drug cartel gunmen who lied in wait ambushed them with various types of firearms, killing 13 and injuring 9 of them. [139] [140] |
| LeBarón and Langford families massacre | 4 November 2019 | Near Bavispe, Sonora | 9 | Gunmen suspected of being drug cartel members ambushed three vehicles occupied by Mormon U.S.-Mexican dual citizens on a highway in Sonora, killing nine, including six children. The cars and the burned bodies of the victims were found by the police. [141] |
| 2019 Villa Unión shootout | 30 November 2019 | Villa Unión, Coahuila | 28 | 8 wounded |
| Cieneguillas prison riots | 31 December 2019 | Near Cieneguillas, Zacatecas | 17 | Using weapons smuggled into the prison, the inmates rioted with 16 being killed in the first riot on 31 December and an additional inmate being killed in the second riot on January 2. [142] |
| Chilapa massacre | 17 January 2020 | Chilapa, Guerrero | 10 | After passing an illegal checkpoint, a group of musicians were ambushed by Los Ardillos hitmen, killing the 10 members of the caravan. The musicians were returning from a performance in the town of Tlayelpan [143] [144] [145] [146] [147] |
| Madera ambush | 3 April 2020 | near Chuhuichupa, Ciudad Madera, Chihuahua | 19 | 19 people are killed in a shootout between rival cartels in Madera, Chihuahua. Local media reports the violence was part of a conflict over turf by the Juarez Cartel and the rival Sinaloa Cartel |
| Colima police massacre | May 2020 | Colima | 7 | Kidnapping and murder of police [148] [149] [150] |
| Irapuato massacres | 6 June 2020 - 1 July 2020 | Irapuato, Guanajuato | 38 | 5 wounded |
| Camargo massacre | 23 January 2021 | Camargo, Tamaulipas | 19 | On January 23, 2021, 19 bodies were discovered near the Mexico–United States border, the victims are said to be migrants and were shot and set on fire. [151] |
| Tonalá Massacre | 27 February 2021 | Tonala, Jalisco | 11 | Eleven people were killed and at least two wounded when unidentified armed assailants attacked a party. [152] [153] |
| Battle of Doctor Coss | 13 March 2021 | Doctor Coss, Nuevo León | 10 | |
| Coatepec Harinas attack | 18 March 2021 | Coatepec Harinas, State of Mexico | 13 | Gunmen ambushed a police convoy, killing 13 police officers. [154] |
| Capture of Aguililla | 6-28 April 2021 | Aguililla, Michoacan | 27 | 8 wounded |
| Reynosa Attacks | 19 June 2021 | Reynosa, Tamaulipas | 19 | 19 people are killed, including 15 civilians. [155] [156] |
| Guerrero executions | September 2021 | Guerrero | 15-20 | Execution of approximately 15-20 suspected members of the Guerreros Unidos, including two while being filmed, by the armed group Los Tlacos [157] [158] [159] [160] [161] [162] |
| Tarecuato massacre | 11 November 2021 | Tarecuato, Tangamandapio, Michoacán | 11 | 11 gunmen killed 11 indigenous people. [163] [164] [165] [166] [167] |
| Las Tinajas massacre | 27 March 2022 | Las Tinajas, Zinapécuaro, Michoacán | 20 | 17 men and 3 women killed at a cockfight by members of a rival faction of Jalisco New Generation Cartel. [168] [169] |
| Celaya massacre | 23 May 2022 | Celaya, Guanajuato | 11 | A group of about 15 men shot staff and guests at a hotel. |
| Rayón massacre | 5 August 2022 | Rayón, San Luis Potosí | 13 | A confrontation between elements of the Civil Guard and armed men left 13 criminals dead and two arrested in Rayón, San Luis Potosí [170] [171] [172] |
| Tuzantla shootout | 24 August 2022 | Tuzantla, Michoacán | 8 | Eight people were killed in the city of Tuzantla, Michoacán, in a firefight between rival factions of La Familia Michoacana |
| Yecapixtla shooting | 1 September 2022 | Yecapixtla, Morelos | 5 | Five people including a former mayor, are killed and several others are injured after a mass shooting at a soccer field in Yecapixtla, Morelos. [173] [174] |
| San Miguel Totolapan massacre | 5 October 2022 | San Miguel Totolapan, Guerrero | 20 | 2 wounded |
| 2023 Ciudad Juárez prison attack | 1 January 2023 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 19 | Ten guards, seven inmates, and two gunmen were killed while 13 other people were wounded in an armed attack on a prison, At least 30 inmates escaped. |
| 2023 Sinaloa unrest | 5 January 2023 | Sinaloa | 30 | The army arrests Ovidio Guzmán López, the son of incarcerated drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Unrest ensues in the state, with schools and airports closed. Ten soldiers, a police officer and 19 cartel members are killed. 52 Wounded [175] |
| Nuevo Laredo military shooting | 26 February 2023 | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas | 5 | Soldiers open fire on a pickup truck carrying unarmed civilians in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, killing five people and injuring 1, sparking protests and riots by local people |
| El Capire ambush | 17 March 2023 | El Capire, Guerrero | 7 | Ambush led by criminal group La Familia Michoacana [176] [177] |
| Ciudad Juárez migrant center fire | 27 March 2023 | Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua | 40 | Central and South American detainees at a migrant center in Ciudad Juárez deliberately set fire to their mattresses, killing 40 people and injuring 27 others |
| Ensenada shootout | 20 May 2023 | Ensenada, Baja California | 10 | Ten people were killed and another ten wounded in an off-road vehicle rally in the San Vicente area of the city by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel |
| Beer House Cantina bar arson | 22 July 2023 | San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora | 13 | Customer expelled from bar sets fire to the place and kills 13 people [178] [179] [180] [181] |
| Coyuca de Benítez shooting | 23 October 2023 | Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero | 13 | 13 police officers killed in ambush in Coyuca de Benitez [182] [183] [184] |
| Salvatierra massacre | 17 December 2023 | Salvatierra, Guanajuato | 11 | 11 people are killed during a mass shooting at a Christmas season party in Salvatierra, Guanajuato. Three others are killed and four injured at a bar in Tulum, Quintana Roo, while four are killed in Salamanca, Guanajuato. [185] [186] |
| 2023 Ciudad Obregón shooting | 29 December 2023 | Ciudad Obregón, Sonora | 8 | Eight people are killed and 26 others are injured in a mass shooting at a party in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora. The shooting's target, a cartel member, is among those killed. [187] [188] |
| San Juan del Río massacre | 9 January 2024 | San Juan del Río, Querétaro | 9 | Nine bodies were found on a road in San Juan del Río, Querétaro [189] [190] |
| Acultzingo massacre | 23 February 2024 | Acultzingo, Veracruz | 7 | [191] [192] [193] |
| Technological University of Guadalajara attack | 6 March 2024 | Guadalajara, Jalisco | 3 | Gabriel Alejandro Galaviz, armed with a knife and an axe, entered the Universidad Tecnológica de Guadalajara campus and attacked three employees, two women and one man. The women did not survive. Previously, he murdered another woman at a nearby motel. [194] [195] [196] The aggressor was not a student at the university, his motivations were unclear, and the police believe his attack was a copycat of other school attacks such as the Colegio Cervantes shooting and Suzano massacre. [197] Galaviz committed suicide in prison. [198] |
| Chicomuselo massacre | 12-13 May 2024 | Chicomuselo, Chiapas. | 11 | Armed groups execute 11 civilians in Chicomuselo [199] [200] [201] |
| La Concordia massacre | 28 June 2024 | La Concordia, Chiapas | 20 | Sinaloa Cartel gunmen kill 20 members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Chiapas. The dead were alleged to be members of a cell operating between Chiapas and Guatemala. [202] |