People have begun to steal grave markers for its metal.
Grief flooded back for Ivonne de Gutierrez when she brought flowers to her son’s grave at a cemetery in Venezuela’s capital, only to find that the grave markers of several relatives were gone. The pieces cast with bronze letters and religious symbols that identified the graves of a nephew and two aunts had disappeared since her visit a week earlier.
“Almost all of them have been taken,” Gutierrez said, standing among the vandalized graves at Cemetery of the East, one of Caracas’ most cherished final resting places.
While thieves have been targeting the capital’s necropolises for years, robbing unsuspecting mourners or ransacking tombs for metal objects and even human bones used in occult ceremonies, the crime wave has worsened as the country has been consumed by economic and political crisis…
h/t grave undertaking
Apparently going with a bronze grave marker was a monumental error. Those with marble didn’t lose theirs.
Stark Naked Socialism, where they strip everything bare!
But hey kids, don’t ferget, their leaders really caaaaare….
It’s pitiful to see what happens when a country is ran into the ground. It’s more the pity that if and when they come out of this that the same people will elect another leftist.
Liberals Socialist Democrats – here’s your Utopia! Coming soon to Mexico. Get in early and be a part from the beginning! Take the illegals with you.