- Source: El Diario de la Republica July 9, 2002
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- Just when the mystery of the cattle mutilations appeares
to have been dispelled by a scientific explanation, a five month old bovine
was found dead in San Francisco del Monte de Oro, showing the same incisions
as the others which were a source of intrigue throughout the country.
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- The discovery was made on Friday nite at a ranch known
as "El Quebrachito", 8 km west of the entrance to the community.
According to Ruben Diaz, a journalist with San Francisco Televisión,
the person who saw the animal first is a man known as "El Negro"
Vazquez. The animal and the field belong to Alberto Martin, former superintendent
and a respected businessman in the community.
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- According to Diaz, the bovine is missing several internal
organs and its flesh had a strange look. "It's as though a machine
had gone into its mouth and sucked out everything inside." The
external examination showed that the bovine was missing its ears, tongue,
intestines and one eye. Its anus appears to have been extracted and the
entire area presents a wound similar to ones made by burns. "Part
of the tail has similar lesions," noted the journalist.
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- People who know the area are startled by the fact that
dogs did not bark out a warning, nor made any sound whatsoever. They are
further certain that the event was discovered shortly after it took place.
According to Diaz, on Friday afternoon, the field owners' children were
cutting down a tree not far from where the dead cow was found. In an
interview granted to Diaz's TV show, Martin stated that he had never before
seen anything similar.
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- Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, IHU. Special thanks
to Alicia Rossi.
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