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He Was One of Mexico's Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel.
• https://www.msn.com by Azam Ahmed and Paulina Vill"How many of you have killed someone before?" one of the instructors asked. A few hands shot up.
The trainers separated, revealing a naked corpse face up in the grass. One thrust a machete into the nearest man's hand.
"Dismember that body," he ordered.
The recruit froze. The instructor waited, then walked up behind the terrified recruit and fired a bullet into his head, killing him. Next, he passed the blade to a lanky teenager while the others watched, dumbfounded.
The teenager didn't hesitate. Offered the chance to prove that he could be an assassin — a sicario — he seized it, he said. A chance at money, power and what he craved most, respect. To be feared in a place where fear was currency.
"I wanted to be a psychopath, to kill without mercy and be the most feared sicario in the world," he said, describing the scene.