“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Perspective will always lie in the eye of the beholder. From a military point of view we can easily claim that the Cartel del Noreste (CDN) hitmen inside the white pickup have decided to pull a tactical retreat. In the heat of the battle they quickly concluded that it was best to create distance between themselves and their aggressors in order to save their lives.
Whereas someone else can easily counter that argument by saying that the CDN assassin’s, having realized that contact was just made with Mexican armed forces and their superior fighting ways, opted to speed away like fucking cowards in total desperation. Because this is what gutless criminals tend to do whenever they’re about to get their asses handed to them by trained men.
In the end it doesn’t really matter how we choose to see shit or what version of events we narrate for our listeners. On this particular day the Mexican soldiers sent their gunfire down range. And managed to successfully take their intended targets the fuck out.
* The following events recently took place in the state of Tamaulipas