Contract killing is one of the most in demand and respected professions in Latin America. In El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico hit men recruit countless youths, including minors, who are seduced by the ease with which they can earn money (by murdering someone, a hit man can earn from 15 Euros to tens of thousands of Euros)in addition to respect and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the assassin training process, the youths, which come from the less fortunate sectors of society, start by killing dogs and pets in order tocalm the nerves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To graduate, the hit men have to murder a person in a situation which involves a risk. Once their target has been pronounced dead, the assassin must attend the victim\u2019s funeral to demonstrate that nobody saw him committing the crime. Once this test has been passed, the subject becomes a professional hit man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2009 almost 21,000 assassinations were carried out at the hands of hit men in Latin America. The settling of scores, drug trafficking and the trafficking of immigrants are all areas to which specialised terror services offer their guns, nerves and lives. On average age hit men do not tend to be older than 27 year of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Contract killing is one of the most in demand and respected professions in Latin America. In El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico hit men recruit countless youths, including minors, who are seduced by the ease with which they can earn money (by murdering someone, a hit man can earn from 15 Euros to tens of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":8624,"menu_order":303,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"edicion":[208],"class_list":["post-8682","finalistas","type-finalistas","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edicion-208"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n