Tsotsil councilwoman Lola Patricia is shot dead by her husband.

TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro) .- The Tsotsil councilwoman of the municipality of San Juan Chamula, Lola Patricia, 26, daughter of municipal treasurer Roberto Patishtán, was shot to death by her husband after an argument at their home, the State Attorney General's Office confirmed.

Reports from the Los Altos region town indicate that the murderer, identified as Simón "N," also a municipal employee, fled in a white vehicle while municipal authorities searched for him to hand him over to the authorities.

Lola Patricia, second councilor, was transferred from the Bautista Chico community to the Las Culturas Hospital in San Cristóbal de las Casas, where she died from wounds sustained from three gunshot wounds.

The State Commission for a Violence-Free Life for Women, part of the feminist collective 50 plus 1, which closely monitors femicides in Chiapas, issued an urgent call to rethink and strengthen the Gender Violence Alert in the state due to the persistence of femicide.

She said that Lola Patricia's case is the sixth femicide recorded in June and the 19th so far this year in Chiapas. "Never before have so many femicides and so many violent deaths occurred in a single month. June is the deadliest month for violence against women in the state, and this underscores the urgency of rethinking and strengthening the Gender Violence Alert (AVG) in the state."

The sixth femicide of the month has led the feminist organization to demand that the Gender Violence Alert be reconsidered or strengthened. "It is essential to review whether strategies for preventing, addressing, punishing, and eradicating violence are reaching all women, especially those in the most vulnerable situations (indigenous women, women from rural areas, etc.)."

In a statement, she asserted that there is "an unstoppable wave of violence against women in Chiapas; and it is heartbreaking to note that the Gender Violence Alert (AVG), decreed in November 2016 for only seven municipalities; specific actions were subsequently implemented for 16 municipalities in the Altos Tsotsil-Tseltal region; it has proven to be an insufficient, ineffective, and, in many cases, merely protocolary mechanism."

"The constant reports of femicides and the increase in violence against women suggest that the measures implemented so far have not been sufficient or effective in curbing this problem," the feminist collective stated.

She said the AVG should be a vital tool for preventing, addressing, punishing, and eradicating femicide; "however, what we see is: A lack of tangible results: Femicides are not decreasing; on the contrary, they are increasing."

Just last June 25, the feminist collective mourned and condemned the femicide of Elia, a 21-year-old woman from the municipality of Simojovel, originally from an indigenous community who came to the town to sell tortillas. Her body was found with signs of violence in the weeds at the side of a road.

Another case that added to the worrying series of violence against women was the femicide of Yuri Cristell, a 30-year-old woman who made uniforms. She was murdered inside her home in the Infonavit El Rosario neighborhood of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Her body was beaten and eventually burned, allegedly by her partner, with whom, according to neighbors, she frequently argued.

On June 21, the feminist collective 50 plus 1 recorded the discovery of the lifeless body of a woman of unknown identity near a clandestine garbage dump on the southern bypass of the city of Tapachula.

On June 5, the police reported the murder of two women whose bodies were found in a septic tank in an abandoned house in the city of Comitán. The identity of the victims is still unknown.