A monument unveiled by the Mexican government in memory of the thousands killed during the country's vicious drug war has sparked anger among victims' relatives.
The £1.6m Mexico City structure, which includes steel panels bearing quotes from famous writers and thinkers, was dedicated during an official ceremony on Friday.
But only some rights groups recognise the monument because it does not bear a single victim's name.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said: "Other organisations asked us for other space because they're against this one.
A relative writes on one of the steel panels in Mexico City "What took us so long was trying to get agreement among the groups, and we failed."
The dispute arises from the fact the Mexican government has yet to fully document the drug war dead - thought to be as many as 70,000 people - despite constant pleas from the public.
Former president Felipe Calderon's government stopped counting the victims in September 2011, and Enrique Pena Nieto's new regime has only provided monthly statistics for December 2012 to February 2013.
Jose Merino, a political science professor at Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology, said people would not accept the memorial until the government documented every case.
Mr Calderon, who at first dismissed most of the drug war dead as criminals, proposed the memorial last year after meeting with victims' families.
Many Mexicans consider the military as complicit in drug war abuses and disappearances.
The land where the memorial is located belonged to the Defence Department, but was given to a governmental body that helps victims and relatives.
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