By Jorge Rolón Luna*
Last June 24, D. G. was arriving at his home in San Rafael del Paraná when he was hit by close range bullets. On the way to the nearest hospital, he stopped breathing. Up to this point it could be just another violent episode, just another homicide. However, what is striking in this case is that the author of the shots was a sniper, no less, who patiently awaited the arrival of the victim to ambush him in front of his own house and shoot him from a vacant lot located about thirty meters away. DG had no criminal record or known malfeasance. Why would anyone want to commission his assassination and what could explain such a level of sophistication in the “commission”? How is it that an expert marksman was commissioned to assassinate him? Perhaps the fact that both his father and his two brothers are in prison in Argentina, on trial for drug trafficking, may be part of the answer. Another part of the answer is that this area of the country has been a known drug trafficking route to Argentina for many years.