Regina Jose Galindo was motivated to challenge the politics and society of her home country of Guatemala by producing art that garnered strong reactions from audiences around the world, specifically those in her very own backyard. Through her performance, she created transparency within the collective memory of her people and the government that was supposed to serve them. As blood stained the streets of Guatemala City, Galindo’s performance seared and rekindled the horrors of war, especially of all the victims whose bloody footprints are only symbols of their death rather than their full lives. In Who Can Erase the Traces? (Quién Puede Borrar las Huellas?) Galindo walked barefoot through Guatemala City, from the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura to the Corte de Constitucionalidad. During this walk, she carried a vat of human blood in which she dipped her feet in order to mark her trek.  These bloody footprints were a direct reaction to the news of Efraín Ríos Montt, a dictator that fueled Guatemala’s thirty-six year civil war, being allowed to run for president. Her message rung clear as a warning to her people of the potential for Montt’s win and the inevitable recurrence of history that might follow.