Ed Calderon

He had the idea that if you just put the military out, you know, which are not corrupted.

Well, he thought they were not corrupted.

And you militarized a lot of the policing going on around it.

You can eliminate all these cartel members like, oh, this guy's gone, this guy's gone, and we're going to just now secure this area and control.

But it's been just basically gremlins, you know.

One gremlin will turn into four or five.

You cut one head off and it's Hydra.

Just a bunch of heads come out now.

So Mexico has been going through that for a while.

And then this president comes in, Manuel Lopez Obrador, with this plan.

Like, we'll just leave them alone and they'll stop.

Violence will stop because we'll stop fighting them.

How'd that work?

he has one of the most violent presidencies in history.

He criticizes Calderón, who started this drug war, over his handling of it.

He outmatches him from death during his administration.

What we saw in his administration was the politicalization, and they were already in politics, but now they're really overt about it.

Now cartels are like...

They have their own candidates running for office.

The mayor of a city and the police chief of a city, they're all cartel members.