Sicarios: The Business of Killing

While the word sicario has been in use for thousands of years, these days when you talk about sicarios you are referring to none other than contract killers or hired assassins. They are generally professional assassins who act as mercenaries, offering their services to the highest bidder. In Latin America, they constitute actual organized gangs and even form part of important paramilitary groups.

Sicarios in Spain

While the word sicario has been in use for thousands of years, these days when you talk about sicarios you are referring to none other than contract killers

or hired assassins. They are generally professional assassins who act as mercenaries, offering their services to the highest bidder. In Latin America, they constitute actual organized gangs and even form part of important paramilitary groups.

One notorious assassination attempt occurred June 17, 1999, in Madrid. Laura Fernández Navarro, then wife of controversial attorney Emilio Rodríguez Menéndez, contacted Ignacio Rocha, member of the ‘Casper” gang, to end her husband’s life. When the attorney’s Mercedes arrived his garage door, a Kawasaki ZZR600 motorcycle pulled up along the right side and the man riding shotgun took out a revolver and shoot Rodríguez Menéndez, hitting him in the lung. After crashing into various cars and taking out two trees, chauffer and body guard, Daniel Maristany Ruíz pulled out a pistol and fired eight times at the fleeing motorists, wounding the occupant of the back seat.

Sicarios, like any other hired assassins, will perform whatever type of crime-related job. Their interest is purely economic, which is why they offer their professional services to anyone who requires them. They make assassination into an actual life style, as well as a very lucrative profession. Jobs are often performed out of loyalty to the same boss or patron, but sicarios don’t hesitate in accepting other jobs as a kind of “overtime.”In some cases, sicarios have previous training. Many are former members of police forces or soldiers from Eastern or Latin American countries.

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