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2025 was a year when Mexico couldn't help but make headlines — sometimes for all the right reasons, sometimes for all the wrong ones, and sometimes just because the internet decided chaos was the vibe.

As the year winds to a close, we take a look back at the surreal, heartwarming and delightfully odd stories that captured Mexico's imagination in 2025.

The record-breaking image featured a wheelchair accessibility symbol transformed into a giant heart and served as a tribute to people with disabilities and children with cancer.

Richard Hart, co-founder of Green Rhino bakery in Mexico City’s Roma Norte neighborhood, found out the hard way about when blunt opinions are not appreciated.

Postal staffers will not only see that the letters are mailed (and replied to) but also run workshops teaching the youngsters about addressing envelopes and applying stamps.

Though the project was promoted as cleaning up the troubled area, residents and environmentalists were skeptical of its efficacy and suspicious of the approval process.

Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada is calling on the capital's residents to ring in the new year together with thousands of others in "a space filled with joy, community and culture.”

During her Tuesday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters that the victims were a family traveling from Acapulco to the México state capital of Toluca along with the two pilots.

The disorder occurred on Monday during discussions about replacing the Mexico City Transparency Institute (InfoCDMX) with a new entity controlled exclusively by Morena lawmakers.

Identification of the new species, similar to another gecko in the same area, took years of coordinated work involving scientists, technicians and community brigades.