Ed Calderon

They started bringing in guerrilla warfare tactics into this realm.

They started doing all those torture videos and cartel execution videos.

That comes from them.

They realized that part of a guerrilla warfare campaign is propaganda.

And how can you make propaganda of shooting a guy in a field?

Right.

Film it.

So they changed that game.

They started realizing that, yeah, it's one thing having a kid with like sneakers on the back of a truck with an AK whose dad was part of the organization and he brought his kid in.

But it's probably a better idea to have militarized or paramilitary groups working with us.

So they started getting these evolutions of ideas of what a criminal organization should be.

And all of that, the members of the new generation cartel that is now kind of like dominating Mexico started off as a Zeta hunting force that the Xenolaw cartel formed in Jalisco.

And they said like, well, we can do this for ourselves now too as well.

So that's how they originated in a lot of ways.

So this organization has taken the textbook learning process of all these other cartels and is now this cartel with all this foundation, educational foundation, as far as how to set up an organization, how to set up all these transnational routes, how to operate on both sides of the border.

how to augment their capabilities constantly through technology.

Drone warfare was first seen, I think, in Mexico.

You saw drones dropping bombs and shit like that in Mexico before the Ukrainian conflict.

But they got really good at it.

The Ukrainians have fucking taken that shit to an art form.