Guys, I can't stop thinking about what happened last night in Madrid. With the 2026 World Cup in full swing, with all of us glued to the TV watching our national teams, there are kids our age or even younger who are killing each other for control of a street. I read the news about Dionisio, a 23-year-old Trinitario who fell into an ambush in Ciudad Lineal, and I'm blown away. He wasn't a kingpin or a big shot, he was a 23-year-old bricklayer with a record, but above all he was a kid who entered DDP territory and paid for it with his life.
The heaviest part: they waited for him hiding in a doorway and jumped him from behind with machetes. Ten stab wounds, according to witnesses. A nurse who was nearby tried to revive him, then the police, but there was no way. And it wasn't just him: two 17-year-old minors, Thomas (Colombian) and Cristhian D. (Peruvian), one is in very serious condition and the other serious. All of this in a park next to bars and terraces, where anyone could have been having a beer watching soccer.
Consider this: investigators believe it wasn't a random weekend. They had been following Dionisio for weeks, waiting for the exact moment for the "fall" (that's what they call these ambushes in gang slang). This isn't a rash act, it's a cold, planned execution. And now they fear retaliation from the Trinitarios.We are facing a spiral that could spiral out of control.
And I ask myself, watching Mbappé, Vinicius, or whatever this World Cup brings us... how many of these kids could be on a soccer field instead of in a gang fight? In San Blas, where the Trinitarios operated, there are courts, there are soccer academies, there are initiatives like the PsiDE project that helps over 1,200 young soccer players in Madrid. But someone is failing, something isn't reaching them, and in the end we have a 23-year-old kid stitched up with machete wounds in a park.
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