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🗓️ 4 December 2020
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Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit down with Ed Calderon, former counter narcotics agent. Calderon is recognized as one of the worlds preeminent researchers and trainers in the field of personal security that have come out of Mexico.
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0:00.0 | Didn't have a lot of choice. You know somebody in their early 20s. There's only a few choices. |
0:04.2 | One of them is going in to work for the cartels and the other one was going to work for the government. |
0:08.2 | Now, were you ever recruited? Did you ever get the opportunity to go work for the cartel or no? |
0:12.2 | I helped it out and went for that police |
0:14.2 | career. I always tell people that I'm a cautionary tale more than anything. So what happens if you say |
0:19.4 | no I just want to be straight what do they do to? Are you all of a sudden ousted and not trusted? |
0:25.0 | Your ostracized, they're basically small factions within a police group like that. |
0:29.3 | Some of them work for one cartel, some of them work for the other. |
0:32.6 | Sometimes you're just working and you're actually involved in some sort of interest that is |
0:37.1 | way beyond your pay grade end. |
0:38.5 | And you don't even know about it, meaning you don't know you're part of it. |
0:41.2 | You don't know you're part of it. |
0:42.2 | Military, police, or cartel. Who has more power? |
0:45.7 | Mexico doesn't have a single cartel. It has many. New generation cartel, one of the biggest |
0:50.3 | and growing cartels out there. Sinaloa cartel, which are rivals of them. |
0:54.6 | How has the cartel made money during COVID? |
0:57.0 | Drugs, of course, you know, human trafficking. |
0:59.2 | And each of these cartels will pay for participation in what they do to different groups. |
1:04.6 | You know, you don't know who to trust, so it's homeless. |
1:07.0 | And that's a powerful word for you to say hopeless. |
1:09.3 | That's why I left that job. |
1:10.7 | If you go into somebody's pocket you're not climbing out. |
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