By Jorge Rolón Luna.* There is no doubt that the assassination has become a phenomenon that presents diverse angles and that such a multiform face has become a characteristic. In May 2023 a police investigation thwarted an attack that was underway, at least ac... More »
By Juan A. Martens Molas. The murder of Ederson Salinas, AKA Ryguasu, in the parking lot of a supermarket in Asuncion on Saturday, February 25, 2023, shocked locals as well as the National Police and is generating a reaction from criminal market actors. It put... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The recent murder in Asunción of Ederson Salinas Benítez, a drug trafficker from the Amambay area, although without any official investigation, showed once again that hired assassination is no longer an “Amambay” or “border” issue, as was ... More »
By Juan A. Martens Molas* Sicariato is justice administration by the organized crime. It is an agile mechanism for conflict resolution that originated in the criminal market. Therefore, to understand the implications of a case we must broaden our view of the c... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* The model of policing that has emerged in Paraguay since the end of Stronismo, and the constitutional and legal reforms that followed, can be characterized as a “briefcase model“. I call this a way of organizing the actions of the police i... More »
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... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna* In a previous article it was stated that homicide is the worst and most extreme form of censorship. It represents the clash between the most radical censorship and the right to information, the exercise of which is the precondition for dem... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna** Homicide is the worst and most extreme form of censorship. In turn, when ending a life is as easy as having the money to order it done -because the manpower is available-, the social consequences can be catastrophic. For this reason, the ... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna * Is it feasible to argue that Ecuador and Paraguay, each on its own and to different degrees, through correlated events are showing us in recent years their entry into what is called “contemporary violence.” On April 29 of this year, Ecuad... More »
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 i... More »
By Jorge Rolón Luna * At the end of last year we published a series of articles in which we analyzed the phenomenon of hired assassination from its conceptual, legal and criminal aspects and added its unprecedented quantitative aspects. The numbers of hired as... More »
By Pablo Daniel Magee * It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the cold-blooded execution of presumed criminal Marcos Rojas and young influencer Cristina Vita Aranda by a sicario in the middle of the Ja’Umina music festival of San Bernardino (2022/01/30), moved ... More »