Ed Calderon

Or, no, it's the U.S.

because they abducted El Mayo.

That's why that place is on fire.

That's why they charge someone with treason.

That's why they charge somebody with high treason, which is unheard of.

But there you go.

So, like, who...

Who are you gonna trust in that realm and so Mexico has pressed the whole the US is responsible for this and They're kind of wiping their hands from it and the US is keeps pointing their finger at the high-level government Which is something again five years ago.

I spoke about this on this podcast and I got a lot of shit for it I said there's no way of going after cartels in Mexico without going after the government

because they're one and the same in a lot of places.

And that was back then, and now it's even more clear as how tied they are.

if you have a if you have and this is what that's that's why you have a lot of conflicts happening in routes that are leading towards a border the scene-along cartel operated in a very old-fashioned way you know they wouldn't know carousel the comas it was their politics don't shit where you eat was their politics for a long time you saw a change in this when

the brutality aspect and how this shit changed in mexico there was an incident members of los arellano felix cartel the tijuana cartel were in a direct conflict with elements of el chapo guzman's organization and they had a assassin um

they had an assassin basically infiltrate the living circle of one of El Chapo's main guys, El Guero Palma.

And he seduced his wife, killed her and abducted his kids and threw them off a bridge and sent that video to El Guero Palma.

And I think after, I mean, brutal shit had happened after that, before that, but I think that set off this, um,

at some point that

whole war that happened you know you start getting the element of the Zetas coming in who were former special operator guys who basically said like we can start our own cartel which a lot of them were Fort Bragg trained individuals that went down yeah some of them some of them went through the Green Beret course foreign nationals go through that course a lot so they went to the Green Beret course and then they go back to Mexico and then as soon as they get back to Mexico like oh congratulations on your

cool green beret and all this training come train our guys or come work for us um so at some point all of this started militarizing the conflict in mexico it went from gang against gang violence which is like very reminiscent of some of the stuff that happened up here during the gang uh era uh or something like al capone era you know uh shootouts between people um

And the Zetas changed the game.