- Source: Telam News Agency (Argentina) June 22, 2002
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- Bahía Blanca (Télam) - Professionals from
the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tandil who are looking into animal
mutilations in the pastures of La Pampa and Buenos Aires reported that
cases involving dead bovines with strange extirpations would reach 200
today.
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- The veterinarians who investigated some 130 cases indicated
in their report that the mutilations were carried out by an "intelligent
being" and discarted "predator damage". Cattle ranchers
and experts from this university met at Olavarria, and SENASA director
Bernardo Cané took advantage of the opportunity to state that "animal
deaths are common this time of year" and speculated that the deaths
could have been caused by an "enigmatic cult" engaged in "esoteric
practices".
The official's theory was greeted skeptically by those present, who cautioned
the functionary about "the perfection of the incisions and the wide
area in which mutilated animals are being found in Buenos Aires and la
Pampa, but also in Santa Fe and Entre Rios."
Cané recalled that a while ago in the U.S.A. some 15,000 cases were
reported and that investigations in this regard did not "shed any
light whatsoever."
Moreover, Eduardo Quintana, a technician for the Atomic Energy Regulatory
Commission, said that there is nothing abnormal regarding mutilated animals,
while admitting that his agency has yet to carry out any investigations.
It was only recently that the Commission received grass and dirt samples
to be analyzed by the Ezeiza Nuclear Center in Buenos Aires in order to
measure the gamma radiation present at the cattle mutilation sites.
The carcass count increased in southern Buenos Aires provicne with the
discovery of a 9 month old, 200 kg Aberdeen Angus calf showing signs of
mutilation. At Pigué, to the north of Bahía Blanca, the toll
has risen to nine dead and mutilated bovines. At La Pampa, 10 km southeast
of Abramo, a Shorthorn cow was found with its jaw, tongue and udders mutilated,
according to Edgar Suarez, the officer-in-charge at the local constabulary.
Cattle rancher Oscar Alvarez, the animal's owner, also reported the deaths
of an Aberdeen Angus and a Hereford mutilated in a similar fashion.
A dead cow also turned up in Jacinto Arauz, while in the department of
Lihuel Cahuel, on the border with Rio Negro, a 4-year old Aberdeen Angus
cow was found mutilated on the San Laureano pasture field, belonging to
Ricardo Lavandera.
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- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic
Ufology. Special Thanks to Gloria Coluchi.
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