Peru News

IN Peru, four men are arrested on suspicion of harvesting the fat from the obese and selling it as fuel for European cosmetics.

November 19, 2009 Gang members in Peru face charges of killing people and draining their fat for use in cosmetics, police said today.

Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.

FAT PROFIT: An alleged gang member boasted to police that his gang had 17 liters of human fat they were hoping to sell to cosmetics companies for US$15,000 a liter DPA , LIMA Sunday, Nov 22, 2009, Page 7 Peru was in shock over allegations that a criminal gang killed people X perhaps as many as 60 X with the motive of rendering the fat from their ...

Featured Article Main Category: Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Also Included In: Transplants / Organ Donations Article Date: 20 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST Police in Peru have arrested four people, three men and a woman, whom they allege are members of a gang suspected of killing up to 60 people in order to extract their body fat to sell for thousands ...

Luis Perry has traveled both his native Peru and the U.S., first making bracelets, then working as a laborer, a pipefitter and now a painter.

Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics.

A gang in the remote Peruvian jungle has been killing people for their fat, police charged Thursday, draining it from their corpses and offering it on the black market for use in cosmetics.

Police say peasant farmers in the Andes targeted tourists looking for work in their hunt for human fat / AP Up to 60 killed in tourist region Shipping container of fat found Can return up to $4200 a litre FOUR people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators ...

President Michelle Bachelet of Chile speaks at a press conference during her visit to New Zealand's Parliament buildings November 21, 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand.

President Obama pictured here with the traditional shirt on, in Singapore. He couldn't bring home the Olympics, but he's nailed the funny shirt photo.

I was going to post something light and fluffy about a local soft drink, Inca Kola, but three little girls changed my mind.

The nation's economic downturn is prompting officials to revamp the city's foray into international contemporary art shows.

"They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.

Alejandro Toledo doesn't look like a former president of a country in this hemisphere with 26 million people.

ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

People forget how small Israel is. Its entire population is a little over 7 million -- smaller than Lima, Peru.

Around dinnertime tonight, the Toronto region will find out whether it has finally overcome the stigma of past failed Olympic bids to host its first major international sporting event since the 1930s: the 2015 Pan American Game.

President Alan Garcia says Brazil's state-run Petrobras has found at least 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in Peru's jungle, enough to ensure the Andean country's gas supply through 2050.

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Tue, 2009-11-03 12:26. Most will probably know the Nazca as the creators of the Nazca Lines - the giant drawings in the desert.