{"id":2158,"date":"2009-11-20T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/11\/americas-abundant-treasure\/"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T16:37:27","slug":"americas-abundant-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/20\/americas-abundant-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Abundant Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/20\/peru-gang-killing-human-fat\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Gang &#8216;killed victims to extract their fat&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/rorycarroll\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Rory Carroll}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: black; background-color: white; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Rory Carroll}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Rory Carroll<\/a>, Latin America correspondent<\/p>\n<p><em>Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed scores of peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold the liquid abroad as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/ew\/dynamic\/imgs\/080411\/Oprah\/fat-wagon_l.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Colonel Jorge Mejia, chief of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/peru\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; color: black; background-color: white; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Peru<\/a>&#8216;s anti-kidnapping police, but the number of victims was believed to be much higher and to date back decades.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the suspects were arrested at a bus station in the capital, Lima, carrying bottles of liquid fat which they claimed were worth up to \u00a336,000 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Police named the band the &#8220;Pishtacos&#8221; after a myth dating to pre-Columbian times of killers who slaughtered victims with machetes to extract fat. The gang allegedly operated in Huanuco, a rural province dotted with Inca temples between the jungle and Andean peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Six members remained at large including the alleged leader, Hilario Cudena, who has been killing to extract fluid for more than three decades, said police.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/20\/peru-gang-killing-human-fat\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Gang &#8216;killed victims to extract their fat&#8217; Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed scores of peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold the liquid abroad as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic. Three suspects have confessed to killing five people for their fat, said Colonel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}