Ed Calderon: Combating Mexican Drug Cartels

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 183 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is security consultant, combatives instructor, Manifesto Radio podcast host, and Mexican cartel expert, Ed Calderon.

For more than a decade, Ed worked in organized crime investigations, counternarcotics, and public safety in northern Mexico. He also worked security details for high-level government officials and visiting dignitaries.

Ed's experience and knowledge have allowed him to advise and train some of the world's most elite law enforcement and special operations groups, including the FBI, BORTAC, Indonesian Kopaska, and Mexican and U.S. intelligence services. Today, he conducts seminars and private training on various security, protection, and combative topics.

You can learn more about Ed at edsmanifesto.com and on Instagram @manifestoradiopodcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Danger Close Podcast, an ironclad original presented by Navy Federal Credit
0:21.8	Union.
0:22.8	My guest today, Ed Calderone.
0:25.6	He worked as a law enforcement officer in Mexico, combating the cartels, organized crime,
0:31.2	counter narcotics.
0:32.2	He's a very unique voice and perspective on the U.S.-Mexico relationship.
0:37.1	You can find him at edsmanifesto.com and now, without further ado, Ed Calderone.
0:44.6	Well, let's kick it off because I'm going to be respectful of your time because I know
0:51.6	you have a thousand things going on all the time in such high demand.
0:56.3	And I really appreciate you taking time to sit down today because I wish it was in person.
1:00.7	I really wish I had been meeting to get one of your courses for years.
1:04.9	And since I think you did one with a friend of mine out in Texas, Jeff Houston in Dallas
1:10.9	years ago, and maybe you do him every year, I forget, but he was telling me about how amazing
1:15.4	it was.
1:16.4	I think he might be the one that introduced me to you maybe like 2015, 16 time frame,
1:23.4	17 time.
1:24.4	Yeah.
1:25.4	Around there.
1:26.4	Yeah.
1:27.4	I remember you were promoting your first book.
1:29.4	Okay.
1:30.4	That's when you, yeah, yeah.
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