Career
Mariano Abarca was assassinated on the night of November 27, 2009 in Chicomuselo in front of his house. Abarca was shot in the head and chest by a man on a motorcycle who was a Blackfire employee. Mariano Abarca had previously been abducted in August 2009, and again received death threats in the week and had filed a complaint against the company one day prior to his death.