2019 in Mexico

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2019
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See also:Other events of 2019
List of years in Mexico

Events of 2019 in Mexico. The article also lists the most important political leaders during the year at both federal and state levels and includes a brief year-end summary of major social and economic issues.

Incumbents

President and cabinet

Supreme Court

Governors

LXIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress

President of the Senate

President of the Chamber of Deputies

Events

January

February

March

  • March 2: "Nrmal" music festival in the Deportivo Estado Mayor Presidencial in the State of Mexico.
  • March 4: Yukaima González, a Wixarika indigenous becomes the first Indigeous to be chosen queen of the Nayarit fair.
  • March 5: Mexican scientists discover a cave at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza containing around 200 ceramic vessels in nearly perfect condition. They are believed to be 1,000 years old.
  • March 6: Nuevo Leon passes a law to prohibit abortion by asserting the right to life from conception.
  • March 8:
    • A ruptured sewer line causes a health alert in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. The 48" sewage line collapsed on March 3.
    • 23 Guatemalan immigrants, including two children, are killed and 33 injured as a bus turns over in Chiapas.
    • 594 paintings that were stolen from Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s are returned by the government of Italy.
  • March 9: An armed group bursts into a bar in Salamanca, Guanajuato) during government operation against El Marro, leader of the cartel Santa Rosa de Lima, dedicated to the theft of gasoline in Mexico. Fifteen killed, five wounded.
  • March 10:
    • At least seven people are executed in Colonia Clavijero, Puebla during a war between the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Los Sinaloenses cartels.
    • The 2019 Rally Mexico in Guanajuato ends in victory for the French team.
  • March 11: 23 migrants kidnapped from a bus in Tamaulipas.
  • March 13: The U.S. State Department issues an advisory about "Spring Break" in Mexico.
  • March 14:
    • At 2:30 p.m. the Popocatépetl volcano sent a column of ashes five kilometers into the air. A smaller explosion occurred four days later, March 18.
    • About 20 SUVs supposedly belong to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel participated in the Carnaval parade in the Xalapa, Veracruz. Videos of hooded men carrying heavy-caliber firearms circulated in social media.
  • March 15: Santiago Barroso is the 4th journalist killed this year. Hw worked for 'San Luis Hoy' on 91.1 FM Río Digital in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora.
  • March 16:
    • "Vive Latino" music festival begins in Mexico City.
    • The 23rd Rey de Reyes (2019) professional wrestling event took place in Puebla.
  • March 17: Dorian Peralta, a business professor at Universidad Autónoma de La Laguna in Torreón, Coahuila, set a new record after giving class for 72 hours, 22 minutes, 36 seconds straight. The accomplishment will be listed in the Guinness World Records.
  • March 18:
  • March 19:
    • 21:38 local time, fragments of the dome of Popocateptl shoot within 1aone and a half-mile radius. Due to continuing activity, on March 28, based on the analysis of the available information, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Popocatépetl volcano recommended changing the phase of the Yellow Volcanic Warning Light Phase 2 to Yellow Phase 3, which is a preventive measure against the observed changes.
    • Viridiana Mendoza López, a student in the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, died on the campus, raising questions about the emergency services for students.
  • March 21:
    • Between 5:31 and 10:30 a.m., forty-two earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 1.9 to 4.4, were reported in Oaxaca.
    • In a landmark decision for freedom of the press, the Supreme Court rules that the attorney general of Veracruz cannot block the Twitter account of a journalist.
  • March 22:
    • "Pa'l Norte" music festival begins in Parque Funidora, Monterrey.
    • The Senate bans marriage involving children younger than 18.
  • March 23: The Diablos Rojos del México (Red Devils) open their new Alfredo Harp Helú baseball stadium in Mexico City.
  • March 24:
    • Mexican security forces arrest Agustín Medina Soto, a suspected Santa Rosa de Lima cartel operator who worked as a liaison with authorities in Celaya, Guanajuato.
    • A leak from a clandestine gasoline operation is detected in Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo two months after the Tlahuelilpan pipeline explosion that left 135 dead.
  • March 25:
  • March 27: The Constitution is amended, creating Guardia Nacional (National Guard).
  • March 28:
    • After an explosion recorded this morning by the Popocatepetl volcano, the warning light went up from yellow phase 2 to yellow phase 3, the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred) reported at a press conference.
    • Mexico's largest hotel and resort conglomerate, Nayarit-based Grupo Vidanta, has announced the launch of a Mexican cruise line, Vidanta Cruises.
    • The first contracts have been signed for the Mayan Train project, the general manager of the National Tourism Development Fund (Fonatur) announced yesterday.
    • 1,468 people in Guadalajara broke the Guinness World Records for the most people at a tequila tasting.
    • Three fishermen were injured in a confrontation with the Mexican Navy in San Felipe, Baja California. The fishermen were protesting the presence of a boat operated by the environmental group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, who were trying to protect the Vaquita porpoise in the Gulf of California, protected since 2015.
    • The Congress of the Union approves a measure to do away with presidential immunity (el fuero) while preserving immunity for themselves.
  • March 29: Mexican sports journalist Omar Ivan Camacho, 35, who worked with Noticieros Altavoz de Chavez Radiocast and helped run the Evora Sport website, has been found dead in the municipality of Salvador Alvarado, Sinaloa. He becomes the seventh journalist murdered in Mexico since Andrés Manuel López Obrador became president on December 1, 2018.
  • March 30:

April

May

  • May 1: Labor Day (Wednesday)
  • May 2:
    • Two tourists and a taxi driver are executed by community police in Las Choapas, Veracruz, after being accused of kidnapping a child.
    • The bodies of ten men and two women are discovered in secret graves in Guasave, Sinaloa.
  • May 4:
  • May 5: Commemoration of the Battle of Puebla (Sunday)
    • 4,000 protesters in Mexico City and 30,000 protesters in 30 cities around the country join the highly promoted "Megamarcha contra AMLO." The march in León, Guanajuato was led by former president Vicente Fox.
    • The 2019 Puerto Vallarta Open professional tennis tournament draws to a close.
  • May 6: At least 13 people are killed in an airplane crash in the Ocampo Municipality, Coahuila, en route from Las Vegas, Nevada to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
  • May 7: The United States imposes a 17.5% tariff on Mexican tomatoes.
  • May 8: Birthday of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, 1753.
    • Interpol announces it is looking for former Puebla governor Mario Plutarco Marín Torres in relation to collaborating in the torture of journalist Lydia Cacho in 2005 after she published information about child exploitation.
    • Businessman Jesús García and another man were killed while two others were injured when they were shot at about 10:00 a.m. in downtown Cuernavaca, Morelos. Garcia was the father of Juan Manuel García Bejarano, who was murdered in 2017 while organizing the traditional Spring Fair in the city.
    • Robbery of gasoline from a Pemex pipeline in Chiapas caused an explosion. Mixed reports are unclear about fatalities. A similar explosion on January 18, 2019 caused 135 deaths.
  • May 9:
    • Two days after being diagnosed with cancer, singer Vicente Fernández turned down a liver transplant because he is afraid it may come from a homosexual.
    • UNICEF issues a report that says four children are killed every day in Mexico. Juan Martín Pérez of Redim (Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en México–Network for Child Rights in Mexico) put the figure at three deaths daily.
    • President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announces that Pemex will begin building a refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco on July 2, 2019 at a cost of 160 billion pesos. The opposition was quick to denounce the plan.
  • May 10: Mother's Day (Friday)
    • Continuing the wave of violence in Morelos, five employees of the federal womem's penitentiary in Puente de Ixtla are gunned down on their way to work. Three others are injured. The incident took place at a bus stop located in front of a statue built to honor mothers.
    • Mexican walker Lupita González has been suspended for four years due to allegations of using the steroid Trenbolone. She is disqualified from the 2020 Summer Olympics, among other events. González plans to appeal.
  • May 11:
    • 45 bodies have been found in clandestine graves. 30 bodies were found in Sonora and 15 in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
    • Death sentences for three Mexicans convicted of drug trafficking in Malaysia are commuted.
    • The owner of Colegio Rébsamen, Mónica García Villegas, has been arrested and charged with murder in relation to the deaths of 19 students and 7 adults in the September 19, 2017 earthquake.
  • May 12: Eleven people, including an 8-year-old boy, are killed in a shooting in Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, near Chilpancingo. Also two bodies of men who were apparently tortured were found in Tlaxmalac, Huitzuco, a taxi driver was murdered in Taxco, another man was killed in El Pochote, Teloloapan, and five were killed in Acapulco.
  • May 14: Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announces that 2019 will be the last year that the Mexican Grand Prix will be held because the MXN $400 million (US$20.865 million) fee will be diverted to the Tren Maya. It is estimated that the race generates MXN $8,400 million for Mexico.
  • May 15 Teachers' Day
    • The educational reform is enacted.
    • For the first time in its 85-year history, the Palacio de Bellas Artes has been used for religious purposes. The opera El guardián del espejo (Guard of the mirror) in honor of Evangalist Naasón Joaquín García was shown at the theater. Authorities are looking into a lawsuit. On May 22, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, Secretary of Culture, stated that the event was a concert, not a religious event.
    • Mexican wines win 39 medals, including two grand gold and two gold, at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles held in Aigle, Switzerland. This puts Mexico in the top 10 best wine-making countries in the world.
  • May 16:
    • "Festival Marvin" music festival begins in Mexico City.
    • 71 forest fires in 18 states have been registered. Classes in preschools, elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, and universities in the Valley of Mexico and other places have been canceled. Another report puts the number of fires at 109 in 19 states, but some have been extinguished.
    • María Espinoza wins third place in the Taekwondo world championships.
  • May 17: The United States Department of the Treasury has declared former Nayarit governor Roberto Sandoval Castañeda and judge Isidro Avelar Gutiérrez "significant drug dealers". Six other individuals and six corporations were similarly sanctioned. The following day, the CJF (Council of the Federal Judiciary) suspended Judge Avelar Gutiérrez.
  • May 18:
    • "Pulso GNP" music festival in Querétaro.
    • The United States removes its tariff on Mexican steel.
  • May 19:
  • May 20: President Lopez Obrador signs a decree eliminating a special tax break for over 100 of Mexico's largest companies. He says that in the last twelve years, large corporations got away without paying MXN $400 billion in taxes. A few days earlier, Servicio de Administración Tributaria (Mexican revenue service) announced that they will start to withhold taxes on drivers for Uber, DiDi, Cabify, and similar ride services.
  • May 21: Mexican dancer Elisa Carrillo Cabrera wins the 2019 Benois Award as the best dancer in the world from the International Dance Association in Moscow.
  • May 22:
  • May 23: Students' Day (Thursday)
  • May 25: Josefa González Blanco Ortiz Mena, the head of the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources resigned after it was revealed that she abused her power by ordering a civilian flight delayed.
  • May 26
    • Seven socially-prominent Mexicans, including Emilio Salinas Occelli (son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari) and Ana Cristina Fox (daughter of former president Vicente Fox, Rosa Laura Junco, Loreta Garza Dávila (business leader from Nuevo Leon, Daniela Padilla, Camila Fernández, and Mónica Durán, have been accused of involvement with a sex slave ring known as NXIVM.
    • Three police officers are killed and 10 people injured in a shoot-out in Zamora Municipality, Michoacán. Also, nine soldiers were detained and disarmed by self-defense forces in La Huacana Municipality. They were released the same day.
    • The Tigres win the national soccer championship, the Liga MX.
  • May 27: Pureblood "Kublaigo", ridden by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, wins the 74th Hándicap de las Américas horse race in Mexico City.
  • May 28: Alonso Ancira, the owner and president of Altos Hornos de México (Mexico's largest steel mill), was arrested in connection with the 2014 sale of a fertilizer plant to PEMEX, the Mexican-state oil company. The bank accounts of Altos Hornos and Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former CEO of PEMEX, were frozen 24 hours earlier. It is believed that Lozoya will soon be arrested.
  • May 29
    • A bomb explodes in the office of Senator Citlalli Hernández of Morena, burning her face.
    • Pharmacutical companies of India and Spain are the first countries to offer the sale of low-priced medicine in Mexico.
  • May 30: U.S. President Donald Trump declares he will impose a 5% tariff on all Mexican goods imported by the United States starting June 10, 2019. The tax will increase by another 5% every month until undocumented immigrants stop crossing the border.

June

July

August

September

October

  • October: María Lorena Ramírez, Rarámuri ultra-marathon runner and native of the Sierra Tarahumara in Chihuahua is featured on the cover of Vogue Mexico.
  • October – November: The San Sebastián International Film Festival in northern Spain will honor Mexican director Roberto Gavaldón, whose 1960 movie Macario was the first Mexican film to win an Academy Award.
  • October 1
  • October 3
  • October 4
    • Actress Yalitza Aparicio is named UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous peoples.
    • Three more individuals implicated in the Ayotzinapa kidnapping case are freed. Judge Ventura Ramos has freed 29 prisoners implicated in the case in the past month.
    • Las Comisiones Unidas de Procuración y Administración de Justicia y de Igualdad de Género (The United Commissions for the Procuration and Administration of Justice and Gender Equality) in Puebla vote against decriminalization of abortion and legalization of same-sex marriage. The penalty for abortion is reduced from five to one year.
    • Organizers of the Premio Batuta de México (Baton Prize of Mexico) withdraw Placido Domingo's name just two days prior to giving him the prize due to charges of sexual harassment.
  • October 7: Mérida, Yucatán is chosen by Readers’ Choice Awards as the "best small city in the world."
  • October 8: 10,000 taxi drivers block traffic for twelve hours in a protest against Uber and Cabify in Mexico City.
  • October 10: Nadine Gasman, head of the Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (Inmujeres) reports that 267 women and girls are victims of violence every day in Mexico.
  • October 11–20: XIX International Book Fair in the Zocolo of Mexico City.
  • October 11
  • October 12: Dia de la Raza
  • October 13
    • Popocatépetl volcano has produced one explosion, 117 exhalations, and 709 minutes (almost 12 hours) of quaking in a 24-hour period. Gas and light ash have been seen, and the area remains in "Amarillo Fase 2" alert.
    • Voters in Baja California express their opinions on whether to extend Governor Jaime Bonilla's term from two to five years. According to a poll, 84.25% (53,419 voters) approve the five-year term.
    • 800 people organized by the Canadian group "Choir!Choir!Choir!" sing With a Little Help from My Friends and other songs by The Beatles on the border near Tijuana as a protest against U.S. immigration policy.
  • October 14: At least 14 police officers are ambushed and murdered by 30 armed members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Aguililla, Michoacan.
  • October 15
    • Andorra seizes US$83.1 million belonging to Juan Ramón Collado, lawyer of former President Enrique Peña Nieto. Collado was arrested for money laundering on July 9.
    • Fourteen armed civilians and one soldier are killed in a battle in Tepochica, Guerrero.
  • October 16
  • October 17
    • The arrest of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, sets off several gun battles in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Hours later he is freed, and President Lopez Obrador says he supports the decision in order to prevent more bloodshed.
    • Construction of the new "General Felipe Ángeles" airport in Zumpango, State of Mexico, begins; the airport is scheduled to open on March 21, 2022. It is expected to cost MXN $75 billion (US$3.9 billion).
  • October 19 — October 20: Harry Potter festival in Mexico City.
  • October 20
    • Eduardo Arturo Bailleres Mendoza is relieved as warden of the penitentiary in Culiacán after 49 prisoners escaped on October 17. He had been in charge for 11 months.
    • Five Mexican chefs are awarded Michelin Stars: Indra Carrillo, "La Condessa" in Paris; Paco Mendez, "Hoja Santa" in Barcelona; Cosme Aguilar, "Casa de Enrique" in New York; Roberto Ruiz, "Punto MX" in Madrid; and Carlos Gaytan, "Ha" in Xcaret.
  • October 22
    • Activists on social media call for a boycott of Kimberly-Clark de México paper products after CEO Claudio González X. Laporte reports the company will no longer invest in Mexico.
    • A group of mayors who belong to opposition parties (PAN, PRI, and PRD) was repelled with tear gas when they tried to force their way into the National Palace for a meeting with President Lopez Obrador.
    • Rosario Ibarra de Piedra is awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor, only to give it to President Lopez Obardor until the disappearances of "our loved ones" are resolved.
    • Twenty-one mayors from Chiapas resign from PRI, PVEM, PRD, and local political parties to join Morena.
  • October 25
    • Fires in Baja California kill four, damage 200 homes, and burn 7,600 hectares (18,800 acres) of grassland.
    • 100,000 pay homage to the late José José during a rainstorm in the Zócalo of Mexico City.
  • October 26
  • October 27 – Daylight saving time ends; turn clocks back one hour.
  • October 28 – Karime Macías Tubilla, wife of former governor of Veracruz Javier Duarte, is detained in London.
  • October 29 – A children's party in Iztatapala is shot up, resulting in two adults killed and eight children injured.
  • October 30 – A riot at Atlacholoaya penitentiary in Xochitepec, Morelos, leaves six dead, including "El Ray," a leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel; 15 are injured.
  • October 31
    • Two children are shot while trick-or-treating in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Three young children and their adult accomanant are shot to death while Trick-or-treating in Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico.
    • Police free a toll booth from 30 people who were charging drivers MXN $200-$500 in Huimanguillo, Tabasco. One killed and nine arrested.
    • An international human trafficking ring is taken down and 387 migrants are freed.

November

December

Awards

2019 in Numbers

Economy

  • Balance of Trade: According to INEGI, exports increased 2.3% in 2019, giving Mexico a US$5.82 billion trade surplus.
  • Direct Foreign Investment (IED): USD $27,823.
  • Exchange rate: Estimated close MXN $19.26 per US$1.00.
  • GDP ranks: The World Bank nominal ranking places Mexico at No. 15 in absolute terms and No. 69 per capita (US$10,118; MXN $191,678). The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) places Mexico at No. 11 total and No. 68 per capita.
  • GDP (PIB): €840,025 (MXN $17,655,267) for the first three quarters of the year. INEGI report in January 2020 that the Mexican economy contracted by 0.1% in 2019 after growth of just over 2% in 2018.
  • Inflation rate: 2.93%.
  • Interest rate: 7.25%.
  • Mexican Stock Exchange: 3.3% growth from January–September 2019; close at 43,011.27 points on September 30. 44,300.17 points and 32,194,052 shares traded on December 26, 2019.
  • Minimum wage: MXN $102.68 daily (16% over 2018).
  • Population economically active (15+): 57,349,577 (60.2%).
  • Unemployment rate (November 2019): 3.5%.

Education

Population

126,577,691 inhabitants with a life expectancy of 75.1 years (#66 in the world), according to the Consejo Nacional de Población (National Population Council). Mexico is the 10th most populous country in the world.

Violence

  • Murders: INEGI reports a total of 36,478 homicides in 2019, a rate of 29/100,000 inhabitants, basically the same as in 2018. Guanajuato had the highest number (3,974) and Yucatán the lowest (45). Colima had the highest murder rate, 105/100,000 inhabitants.
  • Femicides: Of 2,833 women murdered by September, 726 (25.6%) are investigated as femicides.
  • Law enforcement officers killed: 426 as of December 20.
  • Activists and journalists killed: 10 journalists and 12 activists were killed in Mexico in 2019.
  • Politicians assassinated: Six mayors and at least four other politicians are murdered during 2019.
  • Missing persons: 61,637; 97.4% since the beginning of the Drug War in 2006.

Television

Births

  • April 2 — Seven antelope fawns, including three lechwe, three indio, and one nyala have been born in Chapultepec Zoo in recent months.
  • April 10 — Makena and Omondi are the first hienas moteadas (Crocuta crocuta) born in Chapultepec Zoo.
  • May 12 — Six Mexican wolf cubs born in Chapultepec Zoo.
  • August 3 — Naim and Izem are the two Impala fawns born in the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.
  • December 26 – An unnamed female giraffe was born in Chapultupec Zoo, Mexico City. Jirafifíta was born there in March 2019.

Deaths

January

February

March

April

8,943 people were murdered between January 1 and March 31, 2019, a 9.6% increase over 2018.

May

  • May 2: Telésforo Santiago Enríquez, radio commentator in Oaxaca; murdered.
  • May 6
    • Ramón Amauri Vela and Luis Octavio Reyes Domínguez, executives with Typhoon Offshore, died in an airplane crash in Coahuila.
    • Ramón Randey Dorame, 39, baseball player (b. 1979)
  • May 7: Rafael Coronel, 87, painter (b. 1931)
  • May 11: Wrestler Silver King, 51, younger brother of Dr. Wagner Jr, died of a heart attack during a wrestling match in London.
  • May 16: The body of former Morelos governor Marco Adame's brother, Humberto Adame Castillo, was found in a ditch in Alpuyeca, Xochitepec. Unofficial sources say Humberto had been kidnapped.
  • May 17: Julio Ulises Hijuelos Cervera (Mago Chen Kai), magician (b. 1939)
  • May 18: Osvaldo Batocletti, 69, technical director of the Tigres Femenil soccer team, died from prostate cancer (b. September 22, 1950).
  • May 22: The strangled body of Nataly Michel, 25, who was a contestant in Enamorándonos on TV Azteca, was found in her house in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City.

June

  • June 2: José Antonio Leal Doria, Morena at-large candidate for Deputy, dies as 7:00 a.m. of cancer the day of the election.
  • June 9: Mercedes Pascual Acuña, 88, Spanish actress (Cuna de lobos (1986) and Teresa (1989)) who lived in Mexico (b. 1930)
  • June 10: Environmentalist José Luis Álvarez Flores, 64, murdered in Palenque, Chiapas
  • June 11: Journalist Norma Sarabia of Tabasco was murdered outside her home. She is the sixth Mexican journalist killed this year.
  • June 13: Edith González, 54, Mexican actress (Las noches de aventurera (1998), Corazón salvaje (1993-1994), and Monte Calvario (1986)), ovarian cancer (b. 1964)
  • June 14: Luis Gerardo Hernandez Valdenego, 31, was shot and killed in Guanajuato by unidentified assailants riding motorcycles. In January 2015 Hernandez Valdenegro had been sentenced to 29 months in prison for the beating of journalist Karla Janeth Silva in September, 2014, but a judge released him after implicating the mayor and police chief in the beating.
  • June 21: Chilpancingo businessman Misael "El Tigre" Marin is shot and killed. His brother had been kidnapped at one point, and his accountant was killed in May.
  • June 23: George Rosenkranz, 102, Hungarian-Mexican chemist who specialized in steroids and grand master of Duplicate bridge (b. 1916)
  • June 27
    • Enrique Muñoz "El Reporteronte", reporter for Expresso de la Mañana (FOROtv) (b. November 22, 1962
    • Gualberto Castro, 84, singer and actor (b. 1934)
  • June 29: Lupita Hernández Pérez, 29, is an apparent victim of femicide in Iztapalapa.

July

The first semester (January—June) of 2019 is the most violent in history, with 17,608 murders, an average of 102.6 daily. June was the most violent month in Mexican history, with 2,249 murders.

August

September

  • September 1 — Rodolfo Tuirán, subsecretary of Public Education under President Enrique Peña Nieto.
  • September 4 — Felipe Ruvalcaba, soccer player who played in the 1962 and 1966 FIFA World Cup (b. 1941)
  • September 5 — Francisco Toledo, painter, sculptor, and graphic artist (b. 1940)
  • September 11
    • Erick Castillo Sánchez, photographer for Discovery Channel, murdered in Acapulco, Guerrero.
    • Jorge Elías Espinosa Rafful, former librarian and curator of Library and Museum Victoriano Nieves Céspedes in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche; apparent murder
  • September 13 — María Bazán, an Argentine lawyer, is killed during a home robbery in Condado de Sayavedra Subdivision in Atizapán, State of Mexico.
  • September 14 — Claudia Ochoa Félix, model; drug overdose (b. )
  • September 18 — Salvador Castañeda O'Connor, socialist politician; heart failure (b. 1931)
  • September 21 — Miguel Patiño Velázquez, 80, former Roman Catholic bishop of Diócesis de Apatzingán (b. 1938)
  • September 22 — René Mario Montante Pardo, 86, mechanical engineer and mathematician, (b. 1933)
  • September 25 – Michael Coe, 90, American archaeologist and anthropologist who worked in Guatemala and Mexico (b. 1929)
  • September 28 — José José, 71, El Principe de la Canción (the Prince of Song), singer and musician, pancreas cancer (b. 1948)
  • September 29 — Beatriz Aguirre, 94, actress and voice actress (b. 1925)

October

A report published October 24, 2019, by El Economista shows that Nuevo León (54%), Sinaloa (41%), and Morelos (40%) are the states with the greatest increases in murder rates during the period July–September 2019. Baja California Sur showed the greatest decrease (-60%).

November

  • November 1
    • Diana Victoria González Barrera, 26, soccer player with Club América; hypoglycemia.
    • Rina Lazo, 93, muralist (Fertile Earth), painter, and activist in Guatemala (Order of the Quetzal, 2004) and Mexico (b. Guatemala City, 1923)
    • Rina Lazo, 96, Guatemalan-born Mexican painter, cardiac arrest.
    • Francisco Fernando Tenorio Contreras, 46, mayor of Valle de Chalco, State of Mexico; brain dead after being shot.
  • November 2
    • Óscar Ramírez Pedrote, 29, lawyer and brother of alderman (PT) of Acapulco; shot.
    • Veronica ?, 25, left a party and found murdered in Naucalpan, State of Mexico.
  • November 3 – Juan Gabriel Rodríguez Salinas, former mayor of Santiago Llano Grande, Oaxaca; shot.
  • November 7 – Raquel Padilla, 53, writer, anthropologist, and activist; murder with a knife (classified as femicide) at her home in Ures, Sonora.
  • November 8
    • Oscar Marroquín Hernández, traffic police officer in Acapulco, Guerrero; murdered. Two other police officers, both part of the Fiscalía Especializada en la Investigación y Combate al Delito de Secuestro ("Special prosecutor for investigation and combat of kidnapping") were also murdered in a separate incident.
    • Felipe Reynoso Jiménez, 100, politician, Municipal President of Aguascalientes (1975–1977).
  • November 9 – Juan Carlos Molina Palacios, Deputy (PRI) from Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz; murdered.
  • November 13 – Guillermo Cosío Vidaurri, 90, diplomat and politician, Governor of Jalisco (1989–1992), Deputy (1976–1979, 1985–1988) and Secretary General of PRI (1981), dengue.
  • November 15 – Jorge Vergara, 64, billionaire businessperson (Grupo Omnilife, Chivas of Guadalajara); heart attack (b. March 3, 1955).
  • November 25
    • Héctor García-Molina, 66, Mexican-born American computer scientist.
    • Abril Cecilia Pérez Sagaón, 48, ex-wife of Juan Carlos García, former CEO of Amazon, Mexico, victim of femicide in Mexico City; shot. Garcia was arrested and controversially released.
    • Maximiliano Ruiz Arias, 71, electrical engineer and federal deputy (Morena) from Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
  • November 29 – Brad Gobright, 31, a rock climber from California; fell while climbing Potrero Chico in Nuevo León
  • November 30
    • Hugo Estefanía Monroy, former mayor of Cortazar, Guanajuato (PRD); murdered. His wife, former federal deputy Alejandra Torres Novoa, was injured.
    • Ana Citlaly, 19, of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí; beat to death.

December

  • December 9 – Francisco Estrada, 71, Mexican baseball player and manager (New York Mets, Mexican League).
  • December 10 – Sonia 'P', 42, director of the Ballet Folclórico of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, suspected femicide.
  • December 13 – Lorenzo Barajas Heredia, former mayor of Buenavista, Michoacán (PRD), murdered as he left a dance.
  • December 14 – Chuy Bravo, 63, Mexican-born American actor and television personality (Chelsea Lately, After Lately), heart attack.
  • December 18 – Arturo Morales de Paz, 33, Mexican aeronautical engineer from Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, Oaxaca; stabbed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • December 19 – Dulce Ivana Núñez, 17, burned body found in León, Guanajuato; presumed femicide.
  • December 22 – Fidel Fernández Figueroa, security councilman from the Papaloapan Region of Oaxaca; murdered.
  • December 23
    • Arturo García Velásquez, mayor of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz, Oaxaca; murdered.
    • Jimmy Goldsmith, 60, owner of Loros de Colima of the Ascenso MX soccer league; heart attack.
    • Javier Terrero, trustee of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz, Oaxaca; murdered.
    • Mr. Niebla, (Efrén Tiburcio Márquez), 46, wrestler; infection of the blood (b. February 22, 1973).
  • December 27 – Alberto Islas Jara, 33, son of businessperson Alberto Islas González, member of Coparmex in Puebla, Puebla; shot while in his car during a robbery.
  • December 29 – Sebastián Ferrat, 41, actor (Amar de nuevo, El Señor de los Cielos, El Vato), complications from food poisoning.
  • December 30 – Rubén Darío Galicia Piñón, 66, infrarrealism poet, Historias cinematográficas (1987) and La ciencia de la tristeza (1994), (b. 1953).
  • December 31 – Luciano Moreno López, former mayor (PRI) of Cochoapa el Grande, Guerrero (2012-2015); shot.

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