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  • A couple of hitmen, known as sicarios in Mexico, were going after a local hoodlum when Chacón in his municipal police truck rolled into the middle of a gunfight last month.

    A Small Town Cop, Out-Gunned by Traffickers 2009

  • A couple of hitmen, known as sicarios in Mexico, were going after a local hoodlum when Chacón in his municipal police truck rolled into the middle of a gunfight last month.

    A Small Town Cop, Out-Gunned by Traffickers Travis Fox 2009

  • The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended.

    WN.com - Articles related to Mexico polls test political support 2010

  • It appeared as if the cartel hit man, referred to as sicarios, would line up their victims and spray bullets across their faces to erase their identity as a human.

    naplesnews.com Stories 2010

  • The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended.

    WN.com - Articles related to Mexico polls test political support 2010

  • The paid assassins, known as sicarios, are rarely apprehended.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • As patients, the thugs, known as sicarios, and their superiors can be "paranoid," he says, sometimes suspecting that poor surgical outcomes mean a doctor is sleeping with the enemy.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed David Agren 2010

  • Drug smuggling gangs in Mexico have sent well-armed assassins, or "sicarios," into Arizona to locate and kill bandits who are ambushing and stealing loads of cocaine, marijuana and heroin headed to buyers in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security has warned

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2010

  • Hitmen, or "sicarios" as they call them here, revere her and pray to her for protection against arrest or death and for help to carry out their killings.

    CNN.com 2009

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