How Did This Couple’s Holiday End With a Woman Gunned Down?
Anna Tinterova, a 25-year-old nurse from the Czech Republic, was found shot to death in a wooded area last Friday while visiting Colombia with her boyfriend.
According to local media reports, one witness claimed that Tinterova had argued with her partner, an as-yet-unidentified British national, earlier on Friday evening at their rental home near the village of La Salada in Jardín. After the quarrel, Tinterova allegedly went for a walk at night along a lonely road in the rural countryside.
The time of death was announced as being at about 7:35 p.m. She had suffered two gunshot wounds to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Colombia’s Publimetro newspaper. Apparently, her flickering flashlight lying nearby led neighbors to the scene of the crime.
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How the World’s Far-Right Bitcoin Fanatics Could Royally Screw You
El Salvador executed a brave new plan to make bitcoin an official currency of the country last week. The rollout was predictably met with systemic glitches as well as masses of protesters, who took to the streets to express their rage at the “Bitcoinization” of the national economy.
El Salvador’s populist, right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, has trumpeted the cryptocurrency as a way to end the country’s dependence on the U.S. dollar, as well as a breakthrough technology that will aid with remittances sent to El Salvador from abroad.
Bukele is in many ways an acolyte of Donald Trump, who had constantly stoked his base with musings on Twitter and seems to disdain democracy in favor of his own autocratic rule. Like Trump, he also enjoys soaring popularity among a large swath of the Salvadoran populace. His push toward Bitcoin, however, has been a major stumbling block.
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These ‘Mad Max’ Mega-Heists Are the Future of Brazil’s Bank Robberies
These 'Mad Max' Mega-Heists Are the Future of Brazil's Bank Robberies
In the predawn darkness last Monday, a group of about 20 heavily armed commandos seized control of the downtown financial block in Araçatuba, a mid-sized Brazilian city in the eastern state of São Paulo. They then proceeded to rob three banks, while the surveillance drones they had deployed kept watch over head.
When the heist was complete they accosted several bystanders, shot a man who had been filming them on his phone, and then bount the hostages they’d taken to the tops of their getaway vehicles so as to dissuade police from interfering with their escape. To further distract authorities and cover their retreat, the gang had already planted at least 20 explosives wired to motion detectors around the city, which then began to detonate.
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Leaked Audio Confession Blows Lid Off Mystery of Haiti’s Murdered President
Hours of audio recordings reportedly reveal grim details behind the assassination of Haiti’s president.
Let’s say that you’re a foreign mercenary. And that you and some of your best buds, who are also foreign mercenaries, have just shot to death the leader of an island nation, the inhabitants of which are now likely to be more than a little vexed with you. And let’s further say that there’s an escape plan already set up that would see you out of the dead president’s home and safely on your way.
What do you think you would do next?
Well, if you were one of the Colombian mercenaries who killed Haitian President Jovenel Moïse back in July, you’d apparently choose to push back on the get-away plans so as to stick around and ransack the home looking for loot.
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How the World’s Most Feared ‘Franchise’ Can Threaten to Kill a National TV Star
Just another example of how untouchable the “McDonald’s of Illegal Drugs” has become.
Mexico’s fastest-growing crime group threatened “femicide” against a popular news anchor this week over her allegedly biased coverage.
In a video that circulated widely throughout the country, a masked man surrounded by other masked and heavily armed men reads a death threat from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
(known as CJNG for its Spanish-language acronym). The man singles out Milenio Television’s national anchorwoman Azucena Uresti, and vows to “come for you wherever you are, and make you eat your words.”
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