Mexican Drug Cartels' Victims Tell Their Stories in Hanging Shoes Exhibition ABC.net.au
go to original May 11, 2016

People look at the shoes from the family members of missing people with messages printed on their soles at the "Casa de la Memoria Indomita" museum in Mexico City (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

Boots, sneakers and sandals donated by families seeking missing loved ones in a region of Latin America stricken by drug violence are dangling in a new exhibit in Mexico.

Each of the 86 pairs of shoes hanging from the ceiling were donated by a family member to symbolise how far they have walked in their desperate search.

The artist behind the exhibit, Alfredo Lopez Casanova, said it the exhibition was raising awareness of the "tragedy" of disappearances in crime-plagued Mexico and its neighboring countries.

More than 28,000 people are reported to have gone missing in Mexico, where drug cartels and related violence have flourished over the past decade.

Shoes with messages written on their soles hang from a ceiling. (AFP/Yuri Cortez)

The exhibition that opened on Monday at the Museum of Untamed Memory in Mexico City also remembers victims from Argentina, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Virginia Herrera, whose son was abducted by a drug gang six years ago, said the exhibition "helps make people aware" of the problem.

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