
On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were forcibly abducted and then disappeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers from Cocula and Iguala, in collusion with organized crime. According to official reports, the students annually commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre; police attempted to intercept several of the buses by using roadblocks and firing weapons.

Antonio Basilio Gutiérrez y Ulloa was a Spanish politician and bureaucrat. He held various offices in Spain, San Salvador, New Spain, and Mexico. His most notable political office was being the Colonial Intendant of the Intendancy of San Salvador from 1805 until he was deposed in the 1811 Independence Movement. Unlike other Spanish colonial administrators, Gutiérrez y Ulloa held no military background.

Angélica del Rosario Araujo Lara is a Mexican architect and politician, currently serving as the Senator for Yucatán. Previously, she was the municipal president of Mérida, Yucatán. She is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Margarita Arellanes Cervantes is a Mexican politician born in Monterrey affiliated with the National Action Party.

Eruviel Ávila Villegas is a Mexican politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, and the Governor of the State of Mexico from 2011 to 2017. Before that, he was Mayor of Ecatepec de Morelos twice, from 2003 to 2006 and from 2009 to 2012, and deputy of the State of Mexico's Congress.

Antonio Jáquez Bermúdez was a Mexican businessman and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Emilio Chuayffet Chemor is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party since 1969.
José Manuel del Río Virgen is a Mexican politician affiliated with Convergence who currently serves in the lower house of the Mexican Congress.

María Dolores del Río Sánchez is a Mexican politician. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Sonora. She also served as Mayor of Hermosillo from 2003 to 2006. She is now the State Coordinator of Movimiento Ciudadano in Sonora.

María Cristina Díaz Salazar is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). She is a former municipal president (mayor) of Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Today, she is senator for the state of Nuevo León.

Belisario Domínguez Palencia was a Mexican physician and liberal politician. He served as senator and gave a memorable speech in the Congress during the Mexican Revolution against the dictator Victoriano Huerta, for which he was murdered.

Rodolfo Elizondo Torres is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN.

Verónica Escobar Romo is a Mexican lawyer and politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. In 2012 she served as Mayor of Acapulco succeeding Manuel Añorve Baños.

Mauricio Fernández Garza is a Mexican politician and businessman directly related to the Fernández Ruiloba wealthy and prominent family; owners of PYOSA. He was the mayor of San Pedro Garza García, former senator and current member of the board of Grupo Alfa, a Monterrey-based chemical, food and auto-parts producer. He is well known for his art contribution to Nuevo León.

Fernando de las Fuentes Hernández is a Mexican lawyer, entrepreneur and politician, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Homero Gómez González was a Mexican environmental activist, agricultural engineer, and politician. He was the manager of El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve, a component of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Gómez served as mayor and commissioner of El Rosario, Michoacán.

Félix Arturo González Canto is a politician and Mexican economist, affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). From 2005 until 2011 he was the governor of the state of Quintana Roo.

Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores, is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was the mayor of Ciudad Victoria from 2001 to 2004 and Governor of the state of Tamaulipas from 2004 to 2010, and was also federal deputy in 2000 and coordinator of the Financial Committee of Tomas Yarrington during his campaign. On May 27, 2015, he was indicted on charges of money laundering alongside his brother-in-law Oscar Gomez Guerra by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ).

Ismael Alfredo Hernández Deras is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as Governor of the State of Durango from September 15, 2004 to September 14, 2010. Hernández has previously served as municipal president (mayor) and senator.

Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez was a Mexican politician murdered in the ongoing drug war in his country. He was the mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, in the extreme northern part of Mexico near the United States border, from 2007 to 2010.

Mario Plutarco Marín Torres is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as governor of the state of Puebla.

Humberto Moreira Valdés is a Mexican politician who served as President of the PRI. He was Governor of the State of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011.

Gisela Raquel Mota Ocampo was a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRD. As of 2013, she served as plurinominal deputy in the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress, representing Morelos. After winning the elections in June 2015, Mota Ocampo became mayor of Temixco on 1 January 2016, serving until her assassination the following day, on 2 January 2016. She was the first female mayor of Temixco.

Ivonne Aracely Ortega Pacheco is a Mexican politician from Yucatán affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), former Governor of Yucatán and current federal deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress. She is Yucatan's first elected female governor, although the second to serve, after Dulce María Sauri who served as interim governor from 1991 to 1994. She is the sixth woman to serve as governor of a Mexican state.

Ana Rosa Payán Cervera is a Mexican right-wing politician from Yucatán who in 2006 served as Director of the National System for Integral Family Development (DIF) in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. In 2007 she ran for Governor of Yucatán as the Labor Party–Convergence candidate.

Esthela de Jesús Ponce Beltrán is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She has served as a deputy of the LIX, LXI and currently LXIII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress, each time by way of proportional representation.

María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar was a Mexican physician and politician of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). From 2008 to 2011, she served as mayor of Tiquicheo, a small town in the Mexican state of Michoacán. In spite of three failed assassination attempts during her tenure as mayor, Gorrostieta Salazar continued to be outspoken in the fight against organized crime. In a fourth attack, Gorrostieta Salazar was kidnapped and assassinated by suspected drug traffickers on 15 November 2012. Michoacán is home to several violent drug trafficking organizations such as La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar Cartel.

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo is a Mexican scientist, politician, and head of government of Mexico City, a position equivalent to a state governor. She was elected on 1 July 2018 as part of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition. She is the first woman and the first Jew to be elected to this position in Mexico City.

Manuel Carrillo Tablas was a Mexican philanthropist and served as mayor of Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico. He was a descendant from the Carrillo family, a Spanish noble house. He served as the mayor several times.

Carlos Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo is a Mexican politician previously affiliated with the PRD Party of the Democratic Revolution now affiliated with the PT and former Governor of Guerrero. He is the first non PRI member to hold the position.

Jorge Juan Torres López is a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Torres served as the Governor of Coahuila from January 4, 2011, until December 1, 2011.

Mario López Valdez, popularly known as Malova, is a Mexican businessman and politician, a member of the National Action Party. He was a senator of the state of Sinaloa from 2006 to 2010 and municipal president of Ahome Municipality from 2002 to 2004. He was the Governor of Sinaloa, from 2011 to 2016.

Jesus Vizcarra Calderon is a Mexican businessman and politician.

Luis Walton Aburto is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Convergence. Since 2012, he has acted as Municipal President of Acapulco. He previously served as Senator of the LX and LXI Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Guerrero. and as President of the Convergence between 2010 and 2011.

Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI. He held office as the Mayor of Matamoros from 1993 to 1995, and the Governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005. Yarrington sought nomination for the presidential elections for the PRI in 2005.

Arturo Zamora Jiménez is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He is currently running as the PRI candidate to the governorship of Jalisco.