Ill-timed and unfounded accusations about September 11 made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad aren’t the only things attracting attention at the 65th annual opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Last Thursday, the beheaded corpse of Nicaragua’s senior consular official in the United States was found dressed but barefoot in a Bronx apartment. The former diplomat was late for his usual morning arrival at the Nicaraguan consulate in Manhattan.
According to this news item from Nicaragua’s La Premerisma, Consul César Antonio Mercado Pavón was well-liked, had few if any enemies, but had recently been heard contemplating his own death.
The news item from La Premerisma says in part:
With both hands, the corpse of Nicaraguan diplomat César Antonio Mercado Pavón was clutching some hair that investigators are examining, police said on Friday. [According to New York police, there were ten hairs in his right hand and five in the left].
The beheaded cadaver of César Mercado was found by a driver who was to take him to his office at the United Nations, where he served as acting consul. He was dressed, but barefooted.
Investigators have yet to determine whether this was homicide or suicide … the small apartment’s bathroom sink was red with blood and two knives were found, one 12 inches long near the sink and small paring knife in it, police said. Mercado was stabbed about a dozen times in the abdomen, but according to the initial autopsy it seems that some of the wounds may have been self-inflicted.
President Daniel Ortega asked the United States to clarify the circumstances of the consul’s death as soon as possible. “We’re asking the United States to investigate the case as expeditiously as possible, so the body can be returned to his native town of Masatepe and given a Christian burial … We all know that violence in countries like the United States are the highest in the world,” said Ortega.
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