When the dudes came to kill Benjamin, who sent them and why (obviously, Sandoval was the one who got blasted instead). Was it a hit squad sent by the government? If so, they would have learned it wasn't Benjamin so why didn't they follow up and get Benjamin & Irene later?
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The impression I got was that they were sent by Gomez, himself--either he hired them as hitmen or they were the same sort of gov't thugs that he was, and were doing him a favor by killing Esposito, not as part of a gov't-ordered hit.
I also get the impression--in part from reading other threads on here--that the hit occurred right in the same time frame as when Morales kidnapped Gomez. When Morales is staking out Esposito's apartment waiting for Gomez to show up, you see Gomez in the car with the killers, showing them Esposito's apartment number. Then, Morales trails Gomez home, clubs him, and kidnaps him, presumably on the same night that Sandoval was murdered. Therefore, Gomez probably never discovered that the hitmen had killed the wrong guy because he was imprisoned by Morales, so that's why there was never another attempt to kill Esposito.
The heartbreaking irony, then, is that Gomez was already imprisoned when Esposito fled Buenos Aires, and had Esposito known that, he could've stayed with Irene.
As Bruno Antony states, it was Gomez who sent the guys who worked with him under the right wing military dictatorship in Argentina, to kill Esposito, for personal reassons. Irene was "untouchable".
The guys didn't knew Esposito's face, and Pablo Sandoval made the mistake, not knowing what's going on.
Please excuse my terrible redaction, english is not my native language