Posted on 04/27/2019 9:17:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Julio Santana dropped to his left knee and propped his right elbow on his hip, holding firm his hunting rifle until he had the man known as Yellow in his sights.
It was Aug. 6, 1971, and Santana was 17 years old.
In his village, deep in the Amazon rainforest where he lived in a hut with his parents and two brothers, he was known as a good shot. But he had only ever hunted forest rodents and monkeys for food. The man he was about to kill, Antonio Martins, was a 38-year-old fisherman with blonde hair and fair skin. Julio had been watching Yellow under a stiflingly hot forest canopy for three hours, and now wasn’t sure he could actually bring himself to pull the trigger.
Yellow had raped a 13-year-old girl in a nearby village, and her father had hired Santana’s uncle, a professional hitman, to kill him. Julio knew that in the sprawling and lawless Amazon, locals had taken the law into their own hands for hundreds of years. Still, he was shocked to find out that his favorite uncle — a military policeman — was also an assassin-for-hire. And now he was passing on his latest assignment to his nephew, hoping to recruit him as a contract killer.
Santana was reluctant, fearing that he would go to hell for killing another human being, but when his uncle, Cicero, explained how Yellow had tricked the girl, promising to take her to see the pink dolphins on the Tocantins River before raping her in his canoe, Julio began to change his mind.
To seal the deal, Cicero, too sick with malaria to do the hit on his own, told his nephew God would look the other way. All it took was 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our Fathers...
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And why is hw still roaming free, instead of an appropriate punishment?
Minus the shooting of the rapist, if he did indeed rape the girl.
True Lies.
Lots of work in the Swamp...
You’ve got to change your evil ways.
“All it took was 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our Fathers...”
Who knew!? (Well, of course I suppose if I had gone to hitman school....)
Seems like those that were killed deserved it. I read Jack London’s “The Assasination Bureau” Pretty good. Then There’s “Strangers on a Train”
Lots need killing down there.
When it came to killing those who deserved it he was a piker next to Simo Häyhä.
Good thing he didn’t stop at 9 and 19!
That dude was a bad azz...
...but how does he KNOW every one was guilty...and hadn’t yet repented....oops.
I’ll give him commies and rapists but cheating on a spouse is not a capital crime. He coulda just wounded them.
He didn't know and he didn't care, it was just a job. If you want to see an American equivalent watch this
DuckDuckGo that Dude, some interesting stories around the WWW.
Sounds more like he repented and turned to Christ.
He did quit doing the killings, to his credit.
It's amazing that he still had a conscience left.
Didn’t know about him. Fascinating.
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