The "Mummies of Guanajuato," some 100 19th-century skeletons exhumed from a cemetery in the state of the same name in central Mexico, are the subject of a dispute between Guanajuato authorities and the federal government.
The skeletal remains, apparently incredibly preserved for many years due to the nature of the soil (rich in nitrates and alum, according to scientists) in which they were buried, have been the subject of decades of profiteering by the local government and private contractors.
In 2009, 36 skeletons were "rented" by the then-mayor of Guanajuato, the state capital of the same name, Eduardo . . .
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