Mexico Is A Deadly Place For Journalists

Mexico: A Deadly Beat -- CNN

Culiacan, Mexico (CNN) -- Walking around the main cemetery in Culiacan, Mexico, is like being in Disneyland for the dead.

Known as Jardines del Humaya, the cemetery holds huge mausoleums made of 30-foot-high marble columns. Many of the grave sites are enclosed by ornate buildings the size of small houses. These mausoleums have sitting rooms where family members come to remember their loved ones in true fiesta fashion. Fresh flowers surround altars of expensive bottles of scotch and tequila. Many tombs are air-conditioned, and some even have surround-sound piping in the favorite ballads of the deceased.

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WNU Editor: Mexico is definitely not the place to be for a crime reporter. Part 2 of this CNN special is below.