"Cartels LOVE Her"- Ed Calderon Reveals How Mexico's New President Will Strengthen Drug Cartels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ed Calderon, a retired federal police officer from Mexico, explains how Mexico's new president affects their criminal organizations and could possibly make China stronger. He also explains his fears that the current administration could lead to a military conflict with the United States.
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Michoacán is not a city homie is a state Cmon dog!!!!
That's how u know he's an idiot 😂
Bro they don’t even know their own states .😅
there’s a good reddit thread about a guy who worked with ed calderon in san diego. said they called him “Lalo” and he was a over zealous security guard that worked in tijuana as a police officer with his cousins for a year. He has no real military tactical experience
fr bro, hes a total fraud. His english and his mannerisms are far too american. No way anyone from TJ can learn that well.
link?
I don't think he ever said he was military.
Many people who deal with drug cartels, gangs, and drugs don't have military backgrounds.
@@awnzotheman I worked with Ed Calderon.
I browse this sub and other narco related blogs very infrequently and have been doing so for a couple of years. Up until recently, I did not notice the influx of ‘Ed Calderon’ related media and articles sprinkled across the Internet. I don’t watch or listen to Joe Rogan, or podcasts in general, so whenever it was that this guy started popping up all over the place I had no idea it was the guy I knew years ago, even though I’m sure I noticed a glimpse of his face or name while browsing or scrolling through whatever websites I find myself on.
That is until I saw a recent video from Valuetainment, a channel I watch very frequently, that I noticed the man on the screen staring back at me and recognized him as someone I worked with in the San Diego area a while ago.
I began to dig deeper down the rabbit hole that is this mans whole online persona and realized the extent of the fraud and lies he has perpetuated and how many gullible, naive people he has swindled out of money with his bullshit courses and backstory.
Let me start off by saying this. Ed Calderon was never a cop in Mexico, or anywhere else for that matter. Ed Calderon, who I knew as “Lalo”, was an unarmed security guard working overnight vehicle patrols for a security company in the San Diego area. How do I know this? I was the shift supervisor and trained him for his first month on the job. When we hired him, his only work experience had been as a paintball referee and before that restaurant work. He had apparently taken it upon himself to attend several “tactical training” courses before applying with the company. It did nothing to help him because he showed himself to be completely useless in any high stress situation. I was a former Army MP and knew a thing or two, and this guy panicked when we came across a torn screen door in an apartment clubhouse. Turns out a stray cat liked to climb it to get to the rats up top. Ed acted like we’d run across Ted Bundy.
The properties we patrolled were middle-class and high-income gated communities. All we did was patrol the exterior and interior of the locations in a company vehicle and occasionally lock up pools and clubhouses. I made it abundantly clear to him that we were only there as a deterrence and that we were really in no danger. However, for some reason he felt the need to ALWAYS act like a beat cop on patrol, acting like we were just across the border and at risk from smugglers and drug mules at all times.
Anytime a (mostly old and white) resident would approach us to tell us about a raccoon problem or someone parked in a handicap spot, this guy would lose it and tell them to take their hands out of their pockets, keep their distance, etc. Anytime we would catch kids in the community pool after hours, he would start rattling off penal codes to them and act like he was breaking up a gang initiation meeting. Once he was on his own and riding solo in a car, he’d frequently sit at the entrance to some of the lower end sites and call out every car that came through the guest entrance to our dispatch girls with descriptions such as “suspicious vehicle 3 males” complete with a description of the vehicle straight out of LivePD. He did things like this all the time and scared/annoyed/angered clients, residents, our management, and other guards. He’d berate other guards for not dressing tactical enough or not always being high-strung like him. He was eventually fired when hour branch management would not allow him to wear an outer-carrier ballistic vest on his unarmed patrols of affluent gated communities.
As far as the rest of his persona, it was immediately easy to spot the holes in his story. For one, this guy left Mexico at age 10 and hardly speaks any Spanish anymore and is a green card holder. He frequently refers to himself and his background with vague, tacticool terms like “operated in tactical situations in the northern border region of Mexico” instead of just saying he was a cop for Tijuana PD or whatever. He calls himself a “non-permissive environment specialist” when in reality he is just a glorified lock smith. I know for a fact he had uncles and family members who were cops in Baja and he would frequently shoot them photos and videos of himself on his security patrols as if they were brothers in arms working the same mean streets. Considering the way our uniforms and cars were set up at that company I wouldn’t be surprised if they believed him hence the reason they let him dress up in all their gear. Ever notice how all his photos of his “cop” days are blurry and filtered to shit? Thats either his uncles gear he’s wearing or he took those at the airsoft arena because this man was no cop.
I have nothing else to say other than this man is a fraud and a swindler. He is not to be trusted.
this was the post
ROFL I found the Reddit link, posted it here, and TH-cam deleted the comment.
CARTELES ARE THE POLITICIANS
Duh
And POLITICIANS ARE THE CARTELS ! 😂
Everywhere.
I think you meant,the politicians are the cartels
The DEA is the real cartel bro
Ed calderon knows a lot about sequrity forces in mexico but not about top political oficials or the full story of politics in mexico.
he knows about it from the level that he was exposed to, which is a local police. He saw the corruption, and probably participated in it. He knows nothing about the bigger picture because he simply has no access to really enlighten anybody on the bigger picture. He probably wanted Xotchil to win.
That grifter knows as much as your average journalist.
He's no specialist in anything. 😅
@@Bensux he's real. He's the man!
Ok Claudia, we will take your word for it.😂
Don’t listen to @bensux he’s a troll obviously. 👹
Its not going to stop while there are consumers addicted
If the United States wanted to stop the flow of drugs. Addicts or not they would stop it.
Too late in Guanajuato, Michoacán, Guerrero, and state of Mexico they make money through kidnapping, extortion, slot machines, housing or moving migrants etc. and this is mainly because the states north of that region have undercut them in the drug trade with synthetic drugs and that’s why they talk about the other guys being involved with fent and extortion in their propaganda videos
I use to work for a facility down in Juarez - No straight up extortion - HOWEVER - If your power "went down" - or your water got "turned off" you'd have to pay some guy to get it back on - and these where not turned off because of a past due bill - ie they did polite extortion
He is a Pri&Pan informative he started showing up after AMLO became president
The hell is this guy on . Completely Out of touch with Mexico
and they keep booking him as an expert. What a joke
He knows there’s a ton of money pandering to the Right. He’s been a sellout.
I'm sure this guy has no idea how he keeps getting invited to do a podcast. Was subscribed, now I'm not.
Gell-Mann Amnesia
Agreed
Viva Mexico 🇲🇽 Cabrones 😂 La Maña Controla Todo Solo Los Que Somos De Mexico 🇲🇽 Savemos La Verdad Y La Realidad De Como Funciona Nuestro Querido Mexico 🇲🇽
Okay y Que con eso? Ya te cres chingon?
A lot of ignorance in some comments. Calderon's most important official while his government, Gerardo Garcia Luna, is on jail in NY for helping cartels while Calderon was president.
Is reasonable that this kind of people don't like the best government ever in Mexico
Viva AMLO!!!
Viva México!!!
You’re just as ignorant because everyone is guilty the federal government is still on el mayos side the military in Michoacán works for carteles unidos in Jalisco they work for cjng in Sinaloa they work some of the zambada and Guzman family
When they kidnapped the civilians that lynched cartel family members and henchmen in Guerrero and EDOMEX in morena territory what happened?
People like you still have not been able to justify why amlo visited badiraguato to “inaugurate a road” and just so happened to run into Mrs. Loera
Amlo was paid by the sinaola cartel. You have to be kidding or you're just that stoo p1d
Zionists sell you fake dreams for you to be saying ignorant comments like this. These guys have let millions of Mexicans die in violence and till this day do nothing about it.
Fuck AMLO and all the leftist woke scumbags that are destroying Mexico even further.
She just got married last year with a banker born in Sinaloa 😊
Who is she?
what?!!!!that many assasinations and you dont hear it in the international press?
Maybe not as many but half of them took place in three states where main cartels are fighting for control
There was 4 killed that were running for mayor in local cities and 6 that were affiliated to a campaign and all were from Morena
So it was the right wing parties The P.A.N & P.R.I
those are the 2 parties that have ran the country since 90 years ago and are a teammates of the cartels
Morena just became a political party in 2015 and since 2018 when president amlo won the presidency his party has won 24 states Morena is not just a party its a movement from the people by the people for the people that's why Morena won the presidency again like 3 weeks ago
The people know that Morena the 4th transformation helps the people and it fights the well being of the people
The right wing parties hates the mexican people that's why they have lost in every election since 2018 but againtlwhat Ed calderon has ,is saying is just bs
He is telling you exactly what the establishment has been saying about mexico since 2018 once a left won
37 not 137
It's been in there. I've seen it in the online versions of MSNBC and CNN.
Which 3 states?
Tim kennedy pops up in mexico with 5.11 gear company lol
Plz elaborate? Not a fan of his.
And what? Please, it’s Mexico not Texas. You think cartels will stand idly by if the US puts boots on the ground? This will have a policy and economic solution, not a violent one.
I saw one in GDL
why do people glaze tim kennedy so hard
@@evanpetelle5669 TK talks about doing work as a NGO across the border says cartels want him dead etc
This is EXACTLY why I started a Tv/film company in Rosarito Mexico 🇲🇽
Ed Calderon is a Mexican Steven Seagal. A legend in his own mind. Everything I have ever heard him spout is open source material. He was a Mexican cop who somehow rebranded himself as an authority on everything about the Mexican narco trade.
Why u think he talks to white americans. He never goes to actual mexican podcast from mexico
😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can't wait for this episode to drop. :)
Mexico needs El Salvador mega prisons.
Mexico is too big, it's not a little country. The cartels are much more sophisticated than a violent street gang that can be rounded up. People's rights aside, that's a solution for a small country.
no point in mega prisons if the guards smuggle in phones and drugs and the inmates escape.
Mf it’s different… not lil Rachet street gangs
El Salvador is still a very poor country with few oportunities.
I suppose the cartel might build some prisons after they're done with the ports🤔
I'm not always the biggest fans of Johnny's episodes with drug dealers but episodes like this which discuss the International Trade of drugs, the Cartels influence, and Johnny asks great questions....this was a great episode
This guy Dont know show about AMLO . Trump and maduro thats stupid he is much more complex
Love the topics of this pod, cheers to Uncle Ed 🤝🍷🎹
Love this one. Very well done
It’s always the lil hats 🎩
This Calderon guy is going to cater to the narrative of the powers that be in the U.S. it's just his way to guarantee a check. So what he does is repeat what has already been said , go with the flow and keep getting "invited" to these podcasts.
Absolutely. He doesn't sound legit.
Vendido.
Agreed
Anybody who criticizes the POS leftist narco government in Mexico is seen as lying and opposition! I hope all the red lefties sellout supporters of lopez and Shitbaum, ( who isn't even Mexican), and are living in the US illegally, get deported!
right he's a right wing shill working for u.s corporations and less be honest cooperate America always screw the citizens
Bro this guy has been telling false stories or just blatant lies how about what's going on in Mexico for years now.
Mexico improved a ton during AMLO and is on the right track. No facts just fear mongering in this episode
They ain't ready for this conversation
@@CoachellaAngelwhat on earth are you talking about? Even by the interior ministry’s own numbers (that they embarrassingly posted to X with a purposefully misleading graphic the other day), AMLO’s term has been the most violent presidency on record, surpassing even Calderon.
You Mexicans in FUCKING DENIAL
Wrong. He was a straight Cop you fool.
Dirty Cop 😂😂😂
As a NYR in El Paso, LITERALLY @ border, gotta watch this! You know ALOT abt NYC btw lol :D
I like and respect Ed Calderon a lot and still listen to his insightful conversations with regards to the drug cartels operating within Mexico today. But when he offerers his opinion on Mexico’s changing geopolitical position in the world I can’t help but think he’s out of his field of expertise.
Unless you live in Mexico, I wouldn’t give an opinion of politics in a foreign country. I have tons of family in Mexico and they are all happy to have Sheinbaumm as the President.
jajaj really? Let me guess, they receive money every month for doing nothing.
They have no Idea the Zionist they just put in office 😂
Yes I was born in Mexico and live here we are better than ever increased salary's and everything
And the ones that aren’t happy are the ones glued to the tv consuming the “fake news” this guy is spreading 😂
@@user-kc1wq7ih5qit money they worked for.. it’s their retirements/ social security that was taken from them from previous “leaders” .. u must be a bot or stuck watching tv.
Ed is just giving his point of view. No proof. Please dont believe everything he says..
I'm sure DEA & CIA and FBI don't share your sentiment
Is because he's on the payroll 😂
As a citizen of Mexico, I debunk some of this sh*t...
The moment that Ed referred to Obrador as a combination of Trump and Maduro he destroyed any credibility that his argument might’ve had. That’s the most radical and bias description that he could’ve come up with. He won the majority vote in a fair election because the majority of Mexicans sympathized with him.
Once you said Fair election you lost any credibility or argument that you might have had
Tru, obrador is a filthy immoral rat
yeah he makes no sense at all, for me he is just a bought guy by the opposition and clearly does not know what he is talking about, comparing obrador to trump or maduro is literally nonsensical and its something a rightwinger would say here in mexico except the trump part because rightwingers love trump and you know who trump loves? obrador
he is nonsensical
@@FrkSvait was a fair election with the opposition system so you are the one who does not know what he is talking about and you are clearly a PANISTA right winger salty because you lost with one of the worse candidates the opposition could ever have
Trump and Maduro won the majority vote in a fair election because the majority of americans and venezuelans sympathized with them. It's not that different
Good stuff.
In the US it is called a mandated tax or requires legislative insurance
I just came from the state of nayarit and its SUPERSAFE.
U guys always be delivering all the heavy hitting news from down South… 👍
Not really. He is white american. I heard him talk. He invite guys like ed calderon. Its just to cater to gringos
Daaaang Ed!! Ya estuvo bien,con los Tacos por la Dosena!! Uno por uno,carnal!!!
America needs to finish the wall, station troops along our southern border including doubling the size of the Coast Guard AND prohibit Americans from traveling to Mexico.
Claudia is not AMLO. She knows what modern economies look like.
I was at the border during trumps presidency I was at the southwest border in Tecate for 4 months. I was part of infantry unit.
Gotta love Ed.
@connect Could you interview one the most respected world Geopoltical Analyst Dr. Alfredo Jailife from UNAM Mexico about this subject and more?
Mexico hits an all time low!
Mexico has never been better now then. Drugs are usa problem not Mexico. We’re proud of the president of Mexico
The buyers are in america
are you braindead? Do you think there are no crack and meth addicts in Mexico?
Cartels or foreign corporations , which obe benefits the people of Mexico.
plz post full episode
If you say that amlo is corrupted bring the evidence? your just like anabel hernandez wrote a whole book and still just no evidence.
This guy needs to be really careful hope he is strapped
He worked during the comandante borolas times! Nothing else needs to be mentioned...
A meteorologist reporting on cartels and Mexican politics
Italians did this like 40 years ago
It's amazing how they don't remember.
Was war denn in Italien?
@@MsKingS6
Look up the Maxi trial
Not at all.
Good episode
Ed’s the best
But what if she can get the violence to stop?
This dude is a dirty cop why is he on here talking 😂😂😂
You’re an ignorant fool and talking out of your a$$
They were politicians but I don’t think they were all running for presidency according to sum comments I seen
Mexico has a become a complete joke.
The Mexican people are OK. It's those corrupt , coke dealing , so called ''governments'' that cause so much socio/economic/political quagmire-like conditions. The cartels are another negative factor to add into the grossly incompetent , corrupted governmental structure.
How?
lol you’re a joke. Tell me why white Americans are retiring there in droves!
Blame your country men for wanting drugs and if there is a consumer there will be a supplier.
Been a joke
that's not gonna happen
I don't understand what he said at the end: "Either you make that border fence irrelevant, with an armed incursion into Mexico, or you now have a new Puerto Rico." What does this mean?
Yeah I knew there was something off about that president and the situation down there
"El narco" is the mexican equivalent to Al-Qaeda, if you know what i mean.
The world is in crisis.
Mexico is now 12th best economy in the world and it's just going to get better for Mexico,the cartels are extremely powerful they operating in all 50 states of USA and they can't stop them its a lot of people from usa working for the Mexican cartels you named it borders patrol,police,army, CIA, FBI, judges 🥵 Mexico and USA needs to work together but a lot of corruption on both sides.
Love this show
Avocado Republic
Dude forgot to put in kingpin into the title
What is the definition of a Cartel
Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
Love ed he speaks the truth
I need to laugh
Everything comes in thru the port at mahaual once a week when they shut off the power. Weekly, by US politicians and foreign governments
Every.Single.Time.
Who nose why she was selected?
@redpishe was electwd by a poll by mexican people that's how she was elected to be the Morena candidate
She is a scientist and a great politician and she loves her people the mexican people
Stop noticing
@@rushoneprecyone9958in a country where the Jewish population is 50,000 in a country of approximately 130 million doesn't that seem weird to you
Hilarious you used the old photo of Ed. Immediately recognizable, smart move. I'm a member but he's the reason I clicked right now.
Also haven't heard anything about the new Mexican president, you're right about the lack of consistent coverage. Hyped to listen.
Why do they need to war why do they not do a strategic alliance like major companies do exclusive distribution areas assigned to distributors
This is a spot on conversation. AMLO is well known to be part of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Ed Calderon sounds and looks like Felipe Calderon
Hey where has Louise chaparro been? Havent seen him in 3 months.... i was worried this was gonna happen. Please can you check on him and let us know something
His last post on Substack was 3 weeks ago. I think his IG got banned and his youtube has also been quiet as of late. Hope hes ok
thank u for reminding me of his name. i was trying to remember who he was
@@robertov3866He posted on his story today.
Mexico is kind of like Brooklyn in 1974.
Haha very good reference. Is Mexico gonna get their very own 'Donnie Brasco'
Donaldo Barasco lolll
@@TheOriginalUnoriginal Lots of Jimmy Burkes & Jimmy Coonans & Jimmy Bulgers.
@@jimfoley8014 there was Jimmy , Tommy n me. Then there wasss Anthony stabile
Lake St. Martin First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
Is it me or does it seem like he's wearing a costume
I like how you photoshopped that picture 😂 Cartels love whoever benefits them like the PRI and PAN. Reason why some got taken out were because they didn't win.
I trust Mexican built over Chinese built any day and i'm asian lol
drugs is not worth it fellas seriosly
Don't believe everything. He says this is how he makes money
Agreed. He goes around scaring people without really having all the information. He's not an INSIDER. He's just a former cop who saw the corruption, probably participated in it, and now makes money telling anybody that will listen.
💯
This guy is not an expert in anything. Nobody in Mexico knows who he is.
I lived in Mexico over 10 years in 10 cities. AMLO made it the worst it has ever been. This lady is about to take it to the next level. 😢it doesn’t matter who either of these guys are. You can see it with your eyes. 👀
@@j.wright5918 The cartel hornets nest was kicked by Calderon. 70+ years of neo liberalism "prosperity" never trickled down the poor. The elites, including PRI, robbed the country blind. I don't love everything AMLO has done, but no other president has had the audacity to dream up projects like the Mayan train, or help the poor with the smallest of social safety nets. Sorry but your 10 years in 10 cities sounds like BS to me. And if you truly fear Claudia's presidency, you can just leave.
Eduardo sounds like my geriatric dad parroting a story my drunk uncle told him.
😂😂😂 Dont hear about it cause Memphis got the world shook
They love Trump too because of how expensive border crossings will get. So what?
CJNG cartel is fracturing
This dude is full of crap! He is clueless.
No he is not.
Why do you think it not on international level?. Please tell me you guys are smarter .
was that guy just speaking in tongues
Ed Calderon come back to Mexico player!
nope it dont evwn make ot to the top its all held down nefelor it evwr reaches them
Ed should work with the cia and FBI here in the us cartels are operating here as a adviser so they can make a well thought operation call it American drug with draw I'm sweating it hurts ouch 👮🤬
Trump and Maduro? This is so absurd. This guy has a polical motive. Beleive it or not the mexican society has overwhelmingly voted for Claudia. Mexico is happy with the route we are taking. Its amazing how united we are. Over 70 percent of voters choose Morena. Morena the political party which is relatively new by the way. Morena won all chambers of Congress and controls over 28 states in governments. Its not perfect but waaaay better then before.
Hopefully she acts just like her mentor so Mexico can run its course of this woke leftist bullshit.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 looks like someone slept through ethics class
Absolutely correct sir
Por que la mayoría son una bola de borregos ignorantes, votar por un par de comunistas de mierda a quien madres se le ocurriría? Solo Nuevo Leon, Coahuila y Aguascalientes no votaron por esa comunista, marxista, ultra izquierdista. Y yo vivo en uno de esos estados, los demás Estados pueden ir a CHASM.
Have fun turning into Venezuela 😂
Ed is the man. Where can I find more of his stuff?
Err... his channel 🤔😆❓
Err... his channel 🤔😆❓
search for eds manifesto
President Obrador is loved by Mexico this has been by far the best government, this guy is getting pay by someone to talk all this nonsense
She speaks for the cartels.
Both cartels are billionaires sinaloa and cgn who's sniffing smokin slamin the dope by the ton ? hello?
And they ain’t doing this shit in Mexico?
@@plissken94th57 the cartels kill people who sell the fent 30s in Mexico fucking billionaires pushing shit that kills the people who made them billionares. Old bandidos sold COKE WEED AND H ad still made more than the new mfs
Watch the last narc
I haven't hurd anything
Love Ed