“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
For those of us who speak Spanish we all know what the word ‘machetazo’ signifies. Consequently it’s one of those single word phrases that essentially means: a machete is being used to strike something or someone down. It’s also something that you don’t give much thought to until you see the word machetazo in action. And if that word has appeared here to describe something.
Then I think we all know that it’s not going to be a good thing to have to see. For this broadcast, three men from the Gente Nueva Salazar mob have within their grasp a handcuffed male on his knees outside in daylight hours. The enslaved male is begging for his life to be spared. What he actually did wrong we will never really know.
His pleas not to be killed are falling on deaf ears all around him. Online chatter at this time suggests he was an innocent individual who crossed paths with the wrong people. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop the criminals from stabbing him with a knife several times or striking him across his head with those machetazos.
