According to cemetery officials, each year around 2000 individual graves are exhumed as a result of overdue cemetery fees. According to regulations, six years after the burial, relatives must pay 180 Quetzales –around US$24- to renew the grave permit for another 4-year period. If payment is not received, cemetery workers destroy the individual graves, and dump the skeletons into mass graves.
Guatemala City, 2007.
According to cemetery officials, each year around 2000 individual graves are exhumed as a result of overdue cemetery fees. According to regulations, six years after the burial, relatives must pay 180 Quetzales –around US$24- to renew the grave permit for another 4-year period. If payment is not received, cemetery workers destroy the individual graves, and dump the skeletons into mass graves.
Guatemala City, 2007.
