Ed Calderon

Really?

The industrial plant that it has, a lot of the stuff that is leaving China, it's moving to Mexico.

Youth, it has a consumer base that is growing exponentially.

I think it is.

I think we're at a tipping point where the Mexican culture in general is like sick of it.

Like it doesn't want this shit anymore.

We're seeing attacks on freedom of expression in Mexico in a way because some of these popular singers that would sing cartel songs are now banned from performing them live.

So that's like an attack on freedom of speech.

But...

The population is pretty cool with it, though.

They're letting it slide.

So it means that they're kind of like ready to give up shit.

Yeah.

I mean, again, I talked about how if you're going to attack these organizations, you have to attack organizations.

Just like you attack Al-Qaeda, you attack who finances them.

And a lot of these organizations were basically utilizing some of these popular singers to launder money or to gain influence in the U.S.

or to sing about their exploits.

They would pay them to sing about their exploits.

So when this designation came down, it was clear that some of these guys were on the chopping block.

This terrorist designation came down from the U.S.