By Jorge Rolón Luna**
Contract killings are nothing new in Paraguay. Common sense tends to restrict and limit them to certain places on the border — especially but not exclusively to the department of Amambay — so it is common to observe that when they occur in the country’s capital they generate reactions of unusual fear, repulsion, and sometimes even astonishment. These reactions are usually followed by comments such as: “it doesn’t just happen on the border anymore”. Now, to what extent are the sicarios -no case of “sicarias” has been reported yet- shedding the blood of victims in more and more places in the country?