Meet the Venezuelan doctor who performs illegal, cut-rate butt injections on women wanting bigger backsides

17 women in Venezuela have died after having illegal buttock injections The practice is carried out in illegal makeshift surgeries 'Dr Gus' is a practitioner and performed the injections on a 20-year-old patient for ABC News cameras In the U.S. there have been deaths from black market buttocks injections in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York

By Alex Greig

PUBLISHED: 14:20 EST, 15 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:06 EST, 15 March 2014

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The trend for curvaceous rear ends shows no sign of abating, with women across the U.S. and the world risking their lives for black market procedures to make their bottoms bigger.

Deaths from black market buttocks injections have been reported in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York. An interior decorator in Mississippi faces trial in the deaths of two women who were injected at her house.

In Venezuela, more than a dozen women have died from botched butt injections, but that hasn't stopped the illegal procedure being performed by practitioners such as 'Dr Gus,' who, for $300, will inject young women's rears with biopolymers in his Caracas apartment.

Prepping: Dr Gus prepares to perform illegal surgery in his Caracas apartment

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Meet the Venezuelan doctor who performs illegal, cut-rate butt injections on women wanting bigger backsides