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Rodrigo Abd Associated Press
"Cemetery Dues"
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"Cemetery Dues"In Guatemala City, if individual cemetery plot fees
are not paid to renew the plot after 6 years, the skeletons are removed and
thrown into a collective mass grave. A cemetery worker breaks with a hammer a
grave at the main cemetery in Guatemala City, Tuesday, April 24, 2007. This
year, over 2000 graves of individuals were exhumed after their relatives had
not paid the cemetery fees. According to the main cemetery rules, six years
after the burial, relatives must pay 180 Quetzales -around $24- to renew the
graveyard permission for another period of 4 years. After sending a telegram, if there is no payment,
cemetery workers destroy the individual grave, and throw the skeletons into
a collective graveyard.
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