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A Severed Pig's Head, a Friend's Dead Body and Other Things Not to Bring to a Soccer Game
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsYou can add the dead guy at a pro game in Colombia last weekend to a list of crazy behavior by soccer fans at games. In the now infamous story, fans in Colombia stole the body of a murdered friend from a funeral home and took his corpse to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team -- a whole new twist on Pro Zombie Soccer. Christopher Jacome, 17, was shot and killed on Saturday while playing soccer in his local park. The following day, friends took his coffin and carried it into the 42,000-capacity General Santander Stadium in Cucuta for a match between Cucuta Deportivo and Envigado. It ...
Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur: Happily Ever After?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySoul mates are hard to find. But former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has likely found his, and no thanks to popular websites like Match.com and eHarmony. Sanford, who left office on Jan. 12 when Nikki Haley was sworn in, was spotted last week at a glitzy resort in Uruguay with Maria Belen Chapur, a former Argentine journalist he calls his soul mate. The couple fascinates the Argentine press. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras" published an eight-page spread on them. One picture shows Sanford in a blue polo shirt, khaki shorts, baseball cap and sunglasses holding hands with Chapur ...
Ex-SC Gov. Mark Sanford, Argentine Lover Hit Uruguay Resort
By not in system - AOL NewsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A week after divorced South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford left office, he and his Argentine lover he called his "soul mate" were spotted frolicking on the beach in the same resort where their romance began. The Argentine celebrity magazine "Caras," or Faces, published an eight-page spread on Sanford's romantic encounter last week with Maria Belen Chapur, at Punta del Este, Uruguay, a gathering spot for the rich and famous, celebrities and wanna-bes. Paparazzi photos taken from a distance clearly show the couple enjoying themselves - walking hand-in-hand, digging out a ...
Argentine Woman Survives Fall From Hotel's 23rd Floor
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsTalk about finding a taxi at the exact moment you need one most. An Argentine woman has reportedly survived a fall from the 23rd story of a hotel in Buenos Aires by landing atop a taxicab. The woman plummeted an estimated 330 feet after hurling herself from the Hotel Crown Plaza Panamericano before she struck a cab on the street below, crushing the car's roof and shattering its windshield, according to AOL.co.uk. denisitabaires, Infobae.com / AP A woman lies atop a taxi after falling from the 23rd floor of a hotel in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday. The seriously ...
Germany Knew Eichmann's Hiding Place Years Before Capture
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsAfter 15 years on the run, justice finally caught up with Adolf Eichmann on May 11, 1960. The Nazi war criminal -- who organized the deportation of millions of Jews to death camps in German-occupied Poland -- was kidnapped outside his Buenos Aires home by Mossad agents and brought to trial in Israel. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and hanged in 1962. But Eichmann's capture needn't have been so long in the making. German newspaper Bild this weekend published a secret service document that revealed West German intelligence officials knew about his Argentine hideout as early as ...
Thieves Tunnel Into Argentina Bank Vault, Grab Deposit Boxes
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThieves in Argentina have made off with more than 130 safety deposit boxes from a bank vault after spending months digging a 100-foot tunnel from an adjacent building. The heist is believed to have taken place on New Year's Eve while the bank was closed, but it was discovered only when employees returned to work after the long weekend. Authorities described the tunnel as very sophisticated, with electricity and ventilation inside. "It was a really impressive job," Argentine prosecutor Martin Niklison told the BBC. He said that it's believed there were at least three burglars and that ...
Magnitude-7.0 Earthquake Strikes Northern Argentina
By not in system - AOL NewsBUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- A magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a rural area of northern Argentina Saturday morning, but its epicenter was so deep that it gave only a light shake to towns nearby. The U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday that the quake, initially registered at 6.9, hit at 6:56 a.m. about 150 kilometers (115 miles) northeast of Santiago del Estero at a depth of 563 kilometers (350 miles). It was not immediately clear if there were any injuries or damage, but the earthquake was hardly felt in Santiago del Estero, the provincial capital, where Emilio Abdala, a receptionist at the ...
Antarctic Cruise Ship Limping Toward Port in Argentina
By not in system - AOL News
BUENOS AIRES (Dec. 8) -- Officials say an Antarctic cruise ship with 160 passengers aboard has lost an engine in high seas, but is limping safely to its scheduled port. The Argentine Navy says the Clelia II is heading for the port of Ushuia at the extreme south of the country at about 5 mph. It says all passengers are safe and it is being accompanied by an Argentine naval vessel. The ship declared an emergency on Tuesday when it was northeast of the Shetland Islands and about 500 miles from Ushuaia. The ship set out from Ushuaia on Nov. 30 and was scheduled to return on Wednesday. ...
3-Year-Old Girl Rescued From Well in Argentina
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 18) -- A 3-year-old girl has been rescued in Argentina after falling down an abandoned well nearly 70 feet deep. It took firefighters more than six hours to hoist Vanessa Mamani from a well just outside the capital city of Buenos Aires on Wednesday in a rescue that was broadcast live on Argentinian TV. Mamani was taken to a local hospital but "just suffered some grazes," Florencio Varela Hospital medical doctor Arnaldo Medina told the press today. According to the Buenos Aires Herald, a passer-by heard the girl crying out for help and called the police. The well was too narrow to ...
Kirchner's Death Is 'Game Changer' for Argentina
By Karen Keller - AOL News
(Oct. 28) -- The sudden death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, long favored to take the presidential reins from his wife when her term ends in 2012 just as she did from him in 2007, has flung open the doors to next year's presidential election in Argentina. "It's a game changer," said Mauricio Cardenas, director of Brookings' Latin America Institute. "A lot of people were expecting him to run." Alejandro Pagni, AFP / Getty Images Candles burn in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Buenos Aires following the death of former President Nestor Kirchner. Kirchner's ...
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