Three women were found dead in Puerto Vallarta between May 10 and May 21. Now Colectivo 50+1 Puerto Vallarta is pressing City Hall and Jalisco officials for clearer prevention policies, public reporting, and money for local women’s services. The demand lands as the city points to its recent move into Estrategia ALE, a state-backed program tied to gender-violence alerts. The question now is what will be done, and how soon the public will be told.
Women’s group demands public answers after three deaths
Colectivo 50+1 Puerto Vallarta called on municipal and state authorities to take urgent action after three women were found dead in Puerto Vallarta between May 10 and May 21.
The group directed its statement to Mayor Luis Ernesto Munguía González, Gov. Pablo Lemus, and Fabiola Loya, head of Jalisco’s Secretaría de Igualdad Sustantiva entre Mujeres y Hombres. Its demands center on prevention policies, public reporting, and resources for local services that respond to violence against women.
Magaly Fregoso, vice president of Colectivo 50+1 Jalisco and a member of the Puerto Vallarta chapter, said the group is questioning the strategy being used to protect women and girls in the city. The organization asked authorities to define municipal policies to prevent violence, report on interagency coordination, and make public the results of Puerto Vallarta’s gender alert working table.
The May cases cited by the group
The first case cited in local accounts occurred on May 10, when a woman’s body was found near Avenida Víctor Iturbe, known locally as El Piruli, near the Vista Vallarta golf course area.
Five days later, on May 15, another woman was found dead beside Federal Highway 200 south of Puerto Vallarta, near Mismaloya. The third case was reported on May 21, when a woman was found in the Parque Las Palmas area near the Camino Viejo a Mojoneras.
The case information available for this article did not include public identifications of the women. Local accounts said the cases were being treated or described under femicide concerns or protocols.
Questions over Estrategia ALE and local funding
The statement from Colectivo 50+1 came after Puerto Vallarta moved to join Estrategia ALE for the 2026 fiscal year. State materials describe the program as focused on strengthening specialized police attention for women and girls facing gender-based violence.
A May 18 municipal agenda listed an initiative to authorize Puerto Vallarta’s participation in the program and receive state resources of up to 1.2 million pesos. Colectivo 50+1 questioned whether the municipality had assigned its own money to reinforce the strategy.
The municipal government later said it would contribute more than 600,000 pesos, described as slightly more than half of the ALE budget, in coordination with the Jalisco government. The city also said the Municipal Women’s Institute provided 197 legal consultations and 128 psychological services in 2025, and that 1,670 protection measures were active through the regional prosecutor’s office.
Colectivo 50+1 also criticized the condition of the Municipal Women’s Institute, saying it lacks the financial capacity needed for prevention, protection, and reparation projects for women affected by violence.
Puerto Vallarta remains under gender alert mechanisms
State gender-equality documents list Puerto Vallarta among municipalities covered by Jalisco’s state Alert for Violence Against Women, issued in 2016, and the federal Gender Violence Alert, issued in 2018.
Colectivo 50+1 said those mechanisms require more than formal participation. The group asked authorities to report what actions are being taken, what results have come from the alert table, and what local policies will be used to prevent future violence.
The municipality said investigations into the deaths are handled by the Jalisco prosecutor’s office, while adding that prevention remains part of the city’s work through the Municipal Women’s Institute, police programs, and coordination with state authorities.
