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Guatemala Funeral Homes

"Valle del Sol" funeral home employees, Gabriel, left and Tono, right, eat chowmein sandwiches during a break from their night shift, Guatemala City, Saturday, Aug 29, 2009. In Guatemala, funeral homes provide services that go beyond preparing bodies and organizing a wake. Guatemala's constant streak of murders _17-a-day in a city of two million_ and death by common illneses provide a steady flow of customers. In a completely unregulated industry, improvised morticians embalm corpses in the back of auto repair shops and rush to crime scenes to gather information that will allow them to locate, notify and make a sales pitch to the bereaved relatives. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Rodrigo Abd, 1er premio, 2011
"Valle del Sol" funeral home employees, Gabriel, left and Tono, right, eat chowmein sandwiches during a break from their night shift, Guatemala City, Saturday, Aug 29, 2009. In Guatemala, funeral homes provide services that go beyond preparing bodies and organizing a wake. Guatemala's constant streak of murders _17-a-day in a city of two million_ and death by common illneses provide a steady flow of customers. In a completely unregulated industry, improvised morticians embalm corpses in the back of auto repair shops and rush to crime scenes to gather information that will allow them to locate, notify and make a sales pitch to the bereaved relatives. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)