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Construction company that razed Mayan pyramid for gravel is owned by prominent local politician
A construction company owned by a local politician demolished a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple in northern Belize to use the rubble as gravel for road repair work, authorities charged. The ancient 30-meter (yard) high pyramid, which was reduced to a small mound of debris, was part of the Noh Mul ceremonial…
2,000-year-old Mayan pyramid in Belize destroyed by construction crew
A construction company has decimated one of Belize’s oldest and largest Mayan pyramids, reducing it to rubble for use as gravel in a road project. According to the Associated Press, the Nohmul complex in northern Belize, which is estimated to be around 2,300 years old, was torn down using backhoes…
John McAfee tells USA Today: ‘I am not a madman’
John McAfee, the reclusive software mogul wanted for questioning in Belize over an expat neighbor’s death, broke his silence Monday in a US newspaper interview in which he pleaded his innocence. “People ask me, ‘How did it feel to kill a man?’ and I can honestly tell them I wouldn’t…
John McAfee expelled to U.S. after three weeks on the run
US computer anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee escaped immediate deportation to Belize on Wednesday as Guatemala expelled the colorful American back to the United States instead. Wearing a blue suit and white shirt, McAfee, who is wanted in next-door Belize for questioning over his neighbor’s murder, got out of a…
Suffering from a bout of ‘lightheadedness,’ fugitive software pioneer John McAfee seeks return to the U.S.
US anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee said that he has filed legal motions with the Guatemalan government to avoid extradition to Belize, in hopes of being sent instead to the United States. “What we are doing is filing a series of papers, a series of filings with the court to…
The increasingly bizarre tale of John McAfee
Prostitutes, gun-toting bodyguards, experimental drugs, police raids, poisoned dogs, murder, elaborate disguises, cloak-and-dagger interviews: welcome to the incredible world of John McAfee. In a plotline worthy of a Hollywood thriller, the American anti-virus software pioneer went on the run from his Belize island home hours after his Florida expat neighbor…
Belize police dismiss report that John McAfee has been captured near Mexico
Fugitive software pioneer John McAfee may have been captured on the Belize-Mexico border, according to a post on his website that appears to have come as a surprise to authorities in central America. In the latest twist to the bizarre case, whoismcafee.com – a website set up by McAfee after…
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