I spent an afternoon walking through the main cemetery in Guatemala City. It had huge sculptural mausoleums towards the front of the cemetery, honoring important wealthy families. Towards the back, however, the average and poor were buried in large stacks, their final resting place a coffin-sized cubicle. What really interested me was the population of vultures inhabiting that portion of the cemetery. The funeral stacks backed up to the edge of a hill, with one of the city’s massive garbage dumps existing in the ravine below. The vultures filled the skies and rested on the stacks, seemingly indifferent to the visiting mourners.
Sometimes nature speaks simply (and profoundly) about economic disparities.
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