The Guerrero Association Against Violence Toward Women counted 95 intentional homicides of women with presumed femicide in Guerrero between January 1 and October 21, 2026, while the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System registers 15 femicides in the state from January to September, El Universal reported on October 27.
The gap between the two counts is explained in part by criminal classification. The Secretariat counts investigation files opened for femicide, a specific criminal offense, while the association adds intentional homicides of women that, given the circumstances of the act, it presumes to be femicides. At the national level, the official record shows an uptick: femicide files rose from 55 in August to 68 in September 2026, an increase of 23.6%, according to Reforma. For Mexico the figure matters because that statistic feeds the design of gender alerts and the allocation of criminal prosecution resources in the states.
The organization's count spans 28 municipalities. Acapulco accounts for 37 cases, followed by Chilapa with six, and Chilpancingo and Atlixtac with four each. The gap repeats across the historical series: in 2025 the association counted 113 violent killings of women against 20 official femicides; in 2024 it was 175 against 22; in 2023, 138 against 15, and in 2022, 106 against 12. In La Montaña, the Tlachinollan Human Rights Center has documented 168 violent killings of women between 2016 and 2026, of which four reached a conviction; in that region, with more than 400,000 inhabitants, nine ordinary-jurisdiction Public Prosecutor's offices and 22 agents operate. Marina Reina Aguilar, coordinator of the association, said the authorities' response has been that cases can be reclassified during the process.
The Secretariat's next monthly release, with October data, will be published in the coming weeks and will allow both counts to be compared again with a window closer to the one the association already covers, which closed its record on October 21. The 2026 series will be complete with the November and December figures.
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