Divine Paradise

Miguel went to a place called Divine Paradise. He was brought there in a truck with 25 other bodies and a police escort.

Divine Paradise is the municipal cemetery in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The gangs of the city roam freely there, robbing those who come to mourn. If you go there on official business, such as burying the dead, the police will come along to protect you.

Divine Paradise is filling up. It is the site of the mass graves for the local Honduran public hospital system. It is the site where Miguel went, in a shared and unmarked hole, stacked 4 layers deep with body bags.

If you die alone in the hospital in Tegucigalpa, they put your name in the newspaper so that a family member can come for your body. However, many bodies lay in the morgue without ever …