Sounds like one for the Major Case squad.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, a fierce critic of the United States and a defender of North Korea and Iran, was expected to speak during the confab.
The Permanent Mission of Nicaragua was expected to make a statement later Thursday.
Maria Reyes, 40, a Nicaraguan who lives in New York, came to the consulate to pay respects.
“This is just terrible. I feel horrible,” she said. “He was a wonderful person.”
She said Mercado always threw a party at the consulate on Dec. 7 for the Day of Virgin Maria, and was a great host.
“He was a beautiful person,” said Reyes’ husband Freddy Vallejo.
"Knee-Carrrrrrrr-Ah-Gwah"
Most likely killed by a prostitute, a prostitute’s pimp or boyfriend, or a drug dealer.
He was pretty young and they say he had been o the counsel for eight years?
I wonder what the real story is. Drugs? Espionage? Assassination? Many foreign diplomats are likely intelligence agents. Throat-slashing is a pretty surgical way to hit someone ... that doesn’t necessarily mean it was a pro, but it probably increases the odds.
Interesting. There’s likely more to this ... we’ll likely never know.
SnakeDoc
Commie Nica’s got rid of a problem under the protection of immunity.
Off hand I would guess homo-cide.
Shaving?
A DIPLOMAT in a BRONX apartment? Very strange. Methinks the diplomat was up to no good? Si?
Nicaraguan Diplomat Found Dead, Nearly Decapitated Inside Bronx Building
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-diplomat-found-dead-in-bx,0,1091309.story
Wow, that’s a crappy neighborhood. I used to live two blocks away.