Ed Calderon

It's probably the case.

Yeah.

And, I mean, they're all over the illegal weed trade in the U.S.

as well right now.

Yep.

Hundreds of them I saw on the border crossing in single file.

When we talked about Vietnam, I think Mexico is a weird Vietnam in a lot of ways because you see foreign influences in Mexico in different ways.

The current administration is very close with Venezuela and Cuba, which are enemies of the United States.

They're pretty friendly with them.

So that's one influence in the country.

All of these precursors and supplies and

All of these involve Chinese chemists, industrialists, individuals.

A lot of the cartels were basically hiding their money through Chinese banking institutions.

That's the way you hide money from the US.

You take it to a Chinese money broker.

He puts it in the Chinese banking institution.

You go to Mexico.

You have a shell company down there or a real company down there.

And then you have your investments with that Chinese company.

Now you have legitimate money just transferring from one end to the other, and nobody's the wiser.