Feminicidal violence shake Oaxaca again. On Wednesday, May 7, Grettel Rivero, a 56 -year -old woman, was killed with a firearm in broad daylight, in the center of the municipality of Putla de Guerrero, Sierra Sur region. The attack occurred on Querétaro Street, a few meters from the municipal DIF, around 10:00 a.m.
The state Investigation Agency (AEI) went to the place to carry out the body lifting and initiate the ministerial proceedings. Later, the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca confirmed that the crime is investigated under the femicide protocol, which includes specialized ministerial, expert and police lines.
“After evaluating the evidence found in the place, the case will be classified under the Ministerial, Police and Expert Investigation Protocol of the crime of feminicide,” said the Prosecutor’s Office in a brief statement.
They demand justice and cessation to feminicidal violence
After knowing the murder, the movement of unification and fight Triqui (Mult) condemned “energetically” the facts and demanded that prosecutor Bernardo Rodríguez Alamilla a “exhaustive and expeditious” investigation to find the material and intellectual authors.
This call adds to the multiple social demands and feminist organizations that denounce the inaction of the State in the face of the growth of femicides in Oaxaca, one of the entities with the highest indices of gender violence in Mexico.
-A figure or an alarm? Increasing femicides
According to Oaxaca Consortium data, between December 1, 2022 and May 6, 2025, 241 femicides have been counted in the eight regions of the State, according to its platform of feminicidal violence.
In turn, the study group for women “Rosario Castellanos” reports 228 femicides in the same period, placing the Sierra Sur in the fifth place of the regions with more violent deaths of women, below the Mixteca, Isthmus, Costa and central valleys.
In the particular case of Putla de Guerrero, with the death of Grettel Rivero, at least three murders of women so far this year.
Violence does not stop. And the State?
This new case again opens the debate on the real commitment of state and municipal authorities with the prevention, attention and eradication of feminicidal violence.
Despite the supposedly activated figures and protocols, impunity and judicial slowness continue to mark the cases of women killed in Oaxaca. Human rights groups have repeatedly indicated that investigations are usually superficial and often reclassified as simple homicides or suicides, minimizing the gender approach.
