Ed Calderon | Mexican Cartel Intel, Cross-Boarder Trafficking, & Their Alliance With China
The Higherside Chats
Greg Carlwood
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 89 minutes
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About Today's Guest:For over a decade Ed Calderon worked in the fields of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in the northern border region of Mexico. During this period he also coordinated and worked executive protection details for high-level government officials and visiting dignitaries — often in some of the most dangerous parts of the country.
Ed Calderon's study into the indigenous Méxican criminal culture, from occult practices to endemic modus operandi have lead him to be recognized as one of the world’s preeminent researchers and trainers in the field of personal security that has come out of Mexico. Ed has had the privilege of sharing his expertise with members of federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and BORTAC, Navy SEALS, Indonesian Kopaska, Mexican and United States intelligence service agents, and members of special forces groups from all over the world.
Currently, Ed travels North America doing security consulting and conducting seminars and private training courses in anti-abduction, escapology, unarmed combat, region-specific executive protection work, and unconventional-edged weapons work.
Follow Ed on Instagram: instagram.com/manifestoradiopodcast and check out his website: edsmanifesto.com
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| 1:01.7 | hire side-chatters, doing what we do from the sunshine state I'm Greg Carlwood. And while |
| 1:07.1 | we watch the world unravel, it's clear that our attention is intentionally steered toward |
| 1:11.6 | some things and away from others. We're entrained to be outraged over Ukraine, abortion |
| 1:17.3 | and ex-presidents, boxes of documents and a multitude of other issues that have all had |
| 1:21.7 | Americans emotions being played like a pipe organ by the mainstream media while other |
| 1:27.2 | problems like the trafficking of drugs and people over the very poorest US Mexico border |
| 1:32.3 | really isn't getting the attention it should. It's estimated that 70 to 100,000 Americans |
| 1:38.0 | a year are dying from fentanyl overdoses, often times from drugs unknowingly laced with |
| 1:42.9 | it. And according to some estimates, human trafficking over the border increased from |
| 1:47.1 | roughly 50,000 a year to an eye-watering 400,000 a year as of 2021. Both of these two issues |
| 1:54.2 | having a common source in the Mexican cartels are pretty easy to see as a major crisis. |
| 1:59.9 | Yet one has to wonder how bad it needs to get before it even starts to be addressed appropriately. |
| 2:05.0 | And while the cartels only get bigger, stronger and gain control over a wider range of industries, |
| 2:10.4 | many of which you'd never expect, and the more complex the not gets, the harder it is |
| 2:14.8 | to untangle. And here to at least educate us on the depth and details of this complex |
| 2:19.9 | under-reported issue is the great Ed Calderone. For over a decade, Ed worked in the fields |
| 2:25.3 | of counter-narcotics, organized crime investigation and public safety in the Northern border region |
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