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    Mexico's narco-mausoleums make being dead look pretty swanky

    The hulking, sometimes multi-story graveyard behemoths look more like luxury condos than like places to bury the dead.

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    Mausoleums at the 'Humaya Gardens' cemetery on July 13, 2011 in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. In a private cemetery in Sinaloa, the Jardines de Humaya (Humaya Gardens), the remains of many drug lords rest surrounded by symbols of their former welfare and power, like weapons, jewels, luxury trucks and several floors high mausoleums with air conditioning and even party areas. (Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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    2011 AFP
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    2011 AFP
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    Religious images flank a picture of the deceased buried in a mausoleum of the 'Humaya Gardens' cementery on July 13, 2011 in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. In a private cemetery in Sinaloa, the Jardines de Humaya (Humaya Gardens), the remains of many drug lords rest surrounded by symbols of their former welfare and power, like weapons, jewels, luxury trucks and several floors high mausoleums with air conditioning and even party areas. (Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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    2011 AFP
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    Mausoleums at the 'Humaya Gardens' cementery on July 13, 2011 in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. In a private cemetery in Sinaloa, the Jardines de Humaya (Humaya Gardens), the remains of many drug lords rest surrounded by symbols of their former welfare and power, like weapons, jewels, luxury trucks and several floors high mausoleums with air conditioning and even party areas. (Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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    2011 AFP
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    Images of Saint Judas Tadeo (L) and the Virgin of Guadalupe (R) flank pictures of the deceased buried in a mausoleum of the 'Humaya Gardens' cementery on July 13, 2011 in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico. In a private cemetery in Sinaloa, the Jardines de Humaya (Humaya Gardens), the remains of many drug lords rest surrounded by symbols of their former welfare and power, like weapons, jewels, luxury trucks and several floors high mausoleums with air conditioning and even party areas. (Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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    2011 AFP
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    (Photo: YURI CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
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    2011 AFP
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    Mexico's narco-mausoleums make being dead look pretty swanky

    The hulking, sometimes multi-story graveyard behemoths look more like luxury condos than like places to bury the dead.

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