Ed Calderon
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They're under surveillance.
And it was going to go down.
You know, there's a lot of... We're in the realm of theory right now.
But Elmayo Zambada learned his tradecraft in Los Angeles 50 years ago.
And one of the people that was instrumental in showing him how to run drugs and move things through countries was...
was a man who was a Castro-era police officer who was involved in the Bay of Pig incidents.
That man married his El Mayo sister, and that's who taught El Mayo Zambada everything he knew about moving things around borders.
So I'm not going to say the CIA.
And he had no idea because he couldn't even read.
And that same Contra situation pops up again with the death of Kiki Camarena, the DEA agent.
One of the people, there was two major prisoner extraditions of cartel members from Mexico to the U.S.
And the first one that came through, I think a year ago, was the apparent murderer of Kiki Camarena, a cartel member.
And they've always pinned it on him.
Like the cartels, there was this giant grove of marijuana out there and that key commander saw it and reported it.
And Caro Quintero, who owned this plantation, had him killed, right?