2021 in Mexico

• President: Andres Manuel López Obrador MRN

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

Mónica Fernández Balboa MRN

Dulce María Sauri Riancho  PRI

• January 1 – Sixty tourists and crew are rescued when the Canuwa sinks 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Quimixto beach in Puerto Vallarta. No one was injured.[2]
• January 2 – Fireworks and bonfires cause the deaths of two adult women and a preteen girl in Topolobampo, Sinaloa.[3]
• January 4
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico: Dr. Hugo López-Gatell announces that the government has authorized use of the AstraZeneca vaccine.[4]
  • 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.[5]
• January 6 – Epiphany: Armed members of the Gulf Cartel are photographed delivering toys to children in Villa Progreso, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.[6] Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) distributes toys in Bonifacio Moreno “El Aguaje”, Aguililla, Michoacán.[7]
• January 7 – Mexican drug war: Nine killed at a funeral in Celaya, five others killed in other parts of the city.[8]
• 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.[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • A fire in the hotel zone of Tulum, Quintana Roo, burns 36 businesses; 1,000 evacuated.[11]
• January 9 – A fire in the Mexico City Metro kills one, injures 32, and shuts down half the rapid transit lines in the city.[12]
• January 10 – Speaking from Manzanillo, Colima, AMLO says that control of the ports by the Mexican Navy does not mean "militarization" of the ports.[13]
• January 11
  • A running gun battle leaves a police officer and nine gunmen dead in Santa Rosa de Lima (Villagrán), Guanajuato.[14]
  • Mexico and the United States agree to continue border restrictions until February 21.[15]
• January 12 – A law prohibiting corporal punishment or humiliating treatment of children or teenagers goes into effect.[16]
• 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.[17]
  • Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl reports 100% occupation in its hospitals, and four patients with serious symptoms of COVID-19 are turned away.[18]
• 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.[19]
• 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.[20]
• January 18 – Twelve bodies whose hands were tied are found along a road in Las Choapas, Veracruz.[21]
• January 21 – The Mexican National Guard stops a truck with 130 Central American migrants in Veracruz.[22]
• January 22
  • AMLO announces that private companies and the states will be allowed to purchase vaccines against COVID-19.[23]
  • 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.[24]
• January 23 – Nineteen burned bodies are found in Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas, likely victims of drug violence.[25]
• 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.[26]
• 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.[27]
  • COVID-19 pandemic: The death toll passes 150,000.[28]
• January 26 – A pack of dogs attacks and kills two adult kangaroos and a joey in La Pastora Zoo in Monterrey.[29]
• 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.[30]

• February 2 – CFE pardons thousands of debts going back 26 years worth MXN $11 billion in Tabasco.[31]
• February 3 – Twelve police officers are arrested in the relation to the January 24 massacre of migrants in Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas.[32]
• 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.[33][34] Eleven police officers are arrested.[35]

• February 14 – Homage to Vicente Guerrero in Cuilapan de Guerrero, Oaxaca.[36]
• February 24 – Ceremony honoring 200 years of the Plan de Iguala[36]
• March 25 – Day of Indigenous Peoples' Resistance in Champotón, Campeche.[36]
• July 6
  • 2021 Mexican legislative election
  • 2021 Mexican gubernatorial elections
• May 3 – '′Ceremonia de la Cruz Parlante′′ (Ceremony of the End of the Caste War of Yucatán in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Quintana Roo.[36]
• May 12 – Seven hundred years since the founding of Tenochtitlan.[36]
• August 13 – Five hundred years of the history of Mexico City.[36]
• August 24 – Two hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Córdoba.[36]
• TBA – The "Secretariat of Communications and Transportation" (SCT) will change its name to "Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation" (SICT).[37]

• 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.[38]

• January 1 – Ximena Hita, 21, student and beauty queen (Miss Aguascalientes 2019).[41]
• January 5
  • Jorge Alejandro López Rivas, medical intern in Hospital General de Ecatepec “Dr. José María Rodríguez”; COVID-19.[42]
  • Jade Ivone Matu Pérez, 44, housewife from Cancun, burned in femicide.[43]
• January 6
  • Samara Aurora Arroyo Lemarroy, nutrologist (IMSS) in Xalapa, Veracruz; murdered (body found on this date).[44]
  • Antonio Camacho Romero, environmentalist (Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos); COVID-19.[45]
  • Rafael Loyola Díaz, sociologist (UNAM); COVID-19.[46]
  • Mauro Antonio Mendoza Juárez ("El Trup’o"), playwright, theater director, actor; renal failure.[47]
  • Tania Merino García, employee of Veracruz state government; COVID-19 complicated by government negligence.[48]
  • Rafael Monroy Martínez, biologist and environmentalist (Asamblea Permanente de los Pueblos de Morelos); COVID-19.[45]
  • "Reyna Zapoteca" band members – Miguel Chávez, 18; Joaquín Antonio, 19; Basilio Antonio Cruz, 19; from Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca; shot.[49]
• January 7
  • Manuel Jimenez Guzmán, 71, politician ( PRI and 33° Mason; COVID-19.[50]
  • Adriana Beatriz López Rodríguez, 27, housewife and mother from Cosoleacaque, Veracruz; murdered (body found on this date).[44]
• January 9 – Roberto Hernández Vázquez, 54, telenovela producer (Corazón salvaje, Tres mujeres, Amor de barrio); COVID-19.[51]
• January 10 – Ángel Sergio Guerrero Mier, 85, politician, Governor of Durango ( PRI 1998–2004).[52]
• January 12 – Juan Antonio Acosta Cano, politician ( PAN, deputy in Congress of Guanajuato from Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas); shot.[53]
• January 14
  • Carlos Armando Biebrich, 81, lawyer and politician, Governor of Sonora (1973–1975), Deputy (1967–1970); COVID-19.[54]
  • José Luis Caballero, 65, Olympic footballer (1976).[55]
  • Jesús Escamilla, politician (53rd Congress of Morelos, founder of Humanist Party (Mexico)); COVID-19.[56]
  • Ivan Trejo, 42, poet (″Premio Nuevo León de Literatura en Poesía″), translator, and plawright.[57]
• January 16
  • William Berzunza, 84, baseball player.[58]
  • Samuel Sea Ilimuri, 57, politician (La Paz, Baja California Sue); COVID-19.[59]
• January 17
  • Jesús Belmont Vázquez, 63, journalist (Grupo Sol).[60]
  • José Clemente Orozco Farías, 60, editor and artist, grandson of José Clemente Orozco; heart attack.[61] (b. 1960).
• January 18
  • Lola Landa, 94, activist and writer; heart attack.[62] (b. 1926).
  • Francisco Daniel Rivera Sánchez, 65, Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Archbishop of Mexico (since 2020); COVID-19.[63]
• January 19 – Gustavo Peña, 78, football player (Monterrey, national team) and manager (Leones Negros); COVID-19.[64]
• January 20 – Gastón Padilla (″Padillita″), 75, actor (b. 1945).[65]
• January 21 – Lupe Vázquez, 75, comedian and actress (Dr. Cándido Pérez).[66]
• January 22
  • José Ángel García, 69–70, actor and television director (La rosa de Guadalupe); pulmonary fibrosis.[67]
  • Martin Rodriguez Sánchez, businessman, Consejo Internacional de Empresarios (COINE); shot.[68]
  • Ráphael Steger Cataño, 74, diplomat.[69]
• January 23
  • Anibal Jr, 50, professional wrestler; COVID-19.[70]
  • Martha Madrigal, 92, poet.[71]
• January 24 – Fidel Heras Cruz, community activist in Jamiltepec District, Oaxaca; shot.[72]
• January 25 – Avelino Méndez Rangel, 62, politician, Deputy (2009–2012); COVID-19.[73]
• 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.[74]
  • José Yolando Jarquín Bustamante, politician, municipal president of Xitlapehua, Oaxaca; COVID-19.[75]
• January 28
  • Rafael Heredia, 84, Olympic basketball player (1964, 1968).[76]
  • Mariana "N", 24, doctor in Ocosingo, Chiapas; raped and choked.[77] (Body found on this date.)
  • Rafael Navarro González, 61, chemist and astrobiologist; COVID-19.[78]
• January 29
  • Beatriz Barba, 92, first woman to earn a degree in archaeology in Mexico, member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (b. 1928).[79]
  • Baruch Pérez León, police chief of San Juan Evangelista, Veracruz; tortured and shot.[80]
• January 30
  • María de Jesús Chávez, politician ( PRI), municipal president of Tasquillo, Hidalgo; COVID-19.[81]
  • Ricardo Esponda Gaxiola, businessman (president of Coparmex in Morelos) and politician ( PAN); COVID-19.[82]
  • Rafael Gallardo García, 93, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Linares (1974–1987) and Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico (1987–2003).[83]
• 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.[84]
  • José Luis Muñoz Soto, politician ( MRN), deputy in Hidalgo; COVID-19.[85]

• February 4
  • Antonio Azúcar Hernández, 44, Salvadoran diplomat, consul in Tapachula, Chiapas; COVID-19.[86]
  • Leobardo Ramos Lázaro, politician, municipal president of Chahuites, Juchitán District, Oaxaca; shot.[87]