This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to Ed Calderon of Ed's manifesto.

Ed is, and I'm reading this from his text here,

Ed is a non-permissive environment specialist with operational experience along the Mexican-American border.

Basically, Ed is the go-to guy if you want to talk about the cartels or what I would call them narco militias now in Mexico.

He's done years out there in the field he knows exactly what he's talking about and

he's always there on the ground researching doing these courses helping people so Eddie's

going to tell us all about the new cartels and how they're kind of evolving into

like I said narco militias. If you want to keep Popular Front moving forward, please do support us at

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So Ed I guess, you know, like I said said you've explained it a lot on on podcast but just for our

listeners maybe go into a little bit about your background because there are a lot of

people that claim to be so-called experts on Mexico and you know I've been looking at your work for a long time and I think you know you're the best person to have on here but maybe you can explain to us why or at least you know what you've been doing your background first uh thank you

for having me on I've worked in law enforcement in Mexico northern Mexico specifically

for 12 years.

I worked for a very specific agency that dealt in

narcotics, organized crime investigations and I worked with a closely with a few people that were kind of key at the start of the the so-called Mexican drug war among them lieutenant colonel la and a governor

Osuna which was the governor of Baja during some of the worst violence that we kind of lived through in the

Baja region.

That experience basically, you know, like I got to see things firsthand, I got to know how things

operated at a high level and at a very low on the street level.

So I kind of got a good perspective on all that.

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