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Zorro

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Fri Oct 10, 2014, 11:20 PM Oct 2014

Venezuela blocks Argentine website showing politician's corpse

An outraged Venezuelan government sought on Friday to block an Argentine website that published photos of the corpse of a young Socialist Party legislator stabbed to death last week in a mystery that has convulsed the nation.

In a gruesome and murky case, Robert Serra, 27, a rising star in the ruling party, and his companion Maria Herrera, died of multiple knife wounds late at night in his Caracas home.

President Nicolas Maduro has accused radical opponents of being behind the murder and promised to reveal details soon, though various other theories have been doing the rounds among Venezuelans appalled by the killing.

Photos of Serra's naked and mutilated body in a morgue appeared on social media on Friday and were reproduced by the Argentine news site Infobae.

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-blocks-argentine-website-showing-politicians-corpse-204727819.html

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