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"Peluca" _Wig in English_, waits at a crime scene for relatives of a murdered man hoping to sell them a funeral service, Guatemala City, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Guatemala's constant streak of murders ,17-a-day, provide a steady flow of customers to unregulated funeral homes, where funeral workers can embalm corpses in the back of auto repair shop or rush to crime scenes to gather information that will allow them to locate, notify and make a sales pitch to the bereaved relatives.

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Rodrigo Abd, 2ndo premio, 2011
"Peluca" _Wig in English_, waits at a crime scene for relatives of a murdered man hoping to sell them a funeral service, Guatemala City, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Guatemala's constant streak of murders ,17-a-day, provide a steady flow of customers to unregulated funeral homes, where funeral workers can embalm corpses in the back of auto repair shop or rush to crime scenes to gather information that will allow them to locate, notify and make a sales pitch to the bereaved relatives.