LIMA, Peru (AP) — When Presbitero Matias Maestro cemetery in Lima received its first body in 1808, the best plots went to the elite, unless the noble had been dishonored or disgraced.

Thus were the Marquis Torre Tagle and his wife relegated to niches in a wall of crypts. He had attempted to betray independence leader Simon Bolivar and died of scurvy after living on rats for 13 months in a military fort near the Pacific Ocean.