Baby steps Latvia. We can't all be as totally awesome as me.

Probably for the same reason they let me remember Italy. They let you have enough back that it'd motivate you to kill someone, but not enough that you'd think anything was weird.

Apparently the Mastermind killed one of Spain's citizens. That's why he felt so pressured to kill and get away with it, along with the nightmares he was having about his country being subjected to a plague.