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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 MORENA Supreme Court President of the Supreme Court: Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea Governors LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress President of the Senate Mónica Fernández Balboa MORENA President of the Chamber of Deputies Dulce María Sauri Riancho  PRI Monthly events January 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. 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 −18 °C (0 °F) 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 .... Discover the Claudia Ramirez Lomeli Ricardo Raphael G popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Claudia Ramirez Lomeli Ricardo Raphael G books.