Ed Calderon

But what I've heard is that a lot of that money actually came from Cuban intelligence people who were just trying to orchestrate an embarrassing moment for the US by paying all these mercenaries who are American.

to try and liberate Venezuela and just catching them.

Wow.

I think something like that's happened.

There's a lot of gold coming out of that country.

It has a lot of gold.

There's a lot of shady things coming in and out of that country.

Any country that is outside of the scope of Friends of the United States is a country where shady shit can happen.

Yeah.

See?

You don't have any evidence of that, but there's a bunch of organizations in Mexico that you're fighting against.

Yeah, and they clearly have some sort of free movement between Venezuela and Mexico.

What's going on?

But I think we're headed for something.

Last time I was here, I said in five years, we're going to see some sort of direct military intervention in Mexico, which has already happened, I think, with the arrest of Elmayo Zambala.

I kind of called the whole terrorist designation thing.

I said I didn't think he was going to do it on his first term, but the second one.

And he skipped it.

He skipped a term and then we had some time and then he came back with a force.

I'm an immigrant, Joe, and I've seen that side of policy in the U.S.