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| 1996, Jan. 10 |
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| Four state government officials and 17 police officers in the western state of Guerrero were arrested in connection with a June 1995 massacre of 17 peasants who had been on their way to a leftist antigovernment rally. | 1 |
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| Feb. 16 |
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| The government signed the first of six formal peace accords with Chiapas rebels to resolve the two-year-old uprising. The first accord mainly dealt with Indian political rights. | 2 |
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| May 1 |
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| Some 200,000 union members staged a May Day march in Mexico City despite official cancellation of the march by the government-allied Confederation of Mexican Workers. | 3 |
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| Aug. 28–29 |
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| Rebel gunmen from the Popular Revolutionary Party launched attacks in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Mexico, in at least seven different locations, killing more than thirteen people. | 4 |
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| Dec. 2 |
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| Pres. Zedillo fired Attorney General Antonio Lozano Gracia for his failure to solve a number of assassination and corruption cases involving high-level politicians. | 5 |
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