Sicario, that ancient Roman world for ‘hired-killer’, was updated in the Latin American Spanish by the Colombian mafias since the 1980s. The figure of a “professional” assassin got a kind of fascination not only by popular stories, but literature and movies. It even attracted prestigious writers like Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa who traveled to Medellín to see if it was real that guns were everywhere shooting everyone like a kind of wild west movie. Several authors and film directors like Fernando Vallejo and Victor Gaviria, are even responsible for the foundation of a new kind of literary genre: the Sicario Novel. (more…)
On 2009/06/08, In Conflict, By Albeiro Rodas
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