As of April 2, 2021, Mixtla had presented two confirmed cases but no deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.[2]
The dismembered body of former municipal president Altamirano Gonzalo Elías Zopiyactle (2005-2007), 48, was found with a narco-message from "Miauuu" on April 2, 2021 in Zongolica along Mexican Federal Highway 123.found last Friday in Zongolica belongs to the former mayor of Mixtla, both territories of Veracruz.[3]