Inside the Mexican Cartel Wars | Ed Calderon

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Dan Crenshaw

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4.6 • 16K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Ed Calderon spent nearly two decades running counter-operations against cartels inside Mexico. He joined Rep. Crenshaw for a wide-ranging conversation about the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartels. They talk about how both cartels rose to power, their battle tactics against Mexican police and paramilitary forces, using TikTok to recruit soldiers and traffic victims, their secret occult practices, how they’re infiltrating the United States, what average Mexican citizens think of the cartels, and what the future holds as the ultra-violent Jalisco New Generation makes further gains in territory across Mexico and the United States.

Ed Calderon started his career as a police officer in Tijuana and worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in the northern border region of Mexico. Today he is a security consultant who has worked with the FBI, Navy SEALs, and special forces groups from around the world. Check out his podcast Manifesto Radio and follow him on Instagram at @manifestoradiopodcast.

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0:00.0	We hold these truths to be self-evident.
0:02.0	That all men are cranes.
0:04.0	There's a number of Congress I get to have a lot of really interesting people in the office.
0:07.3	Experts on what they're talking about.
0:08.9	This is the podcast for insights into the issues.
0:11.6	China, bioterrorism, Medicare for all, in-depth discussions.
0:16.0	Breaking it down into simple terms.
0:17.9	We hold these truths with Dan Crenshaw.
0:24.4	Well-armed, they're well-funded.
0:26.3	They have anti-aircraft weapons. They arm off the shelf drones to scout and attack each
0:31.5	other and their enemies. They improvise four-by-fours with armor and machine guns.
0:36.2	They're brutal. They commit public executions and have no hesitation to display their victims
0:40.9	in public to intimidate the opposition and their fellow population.
0:46.8	I'm not talking about the Islamic State.
0:48.4	I'm talking about the Mexican drug cartels.
0:51.0	They're responsible for around 80,000 American deaths from fentanyl every year.
0:56.4	More than 4.7 million encounters at the border.
0:59.4	Over a million godaways at the border.
1:01.6	$14 billion a year from human trafficking and wide-scale corruption of public officials.
1:07.6	They're destabilizing our southern neighbor, Mexico.
1:10.8	They have operational control of our southern border and they use that control to traffic
1:14.0	people and drugs into our country.
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