The Connect- with Johnny Mitchell - "He Was EXECUTED"- Cartel Insider Exposes Truth About Drug Lord El Mencho's ASSASSINATION, Cover-Up

Episode Date: March 22, 2026

Ed Calderon returns to break down the killing of El Mencho, the chaos that followed across Mexico, and why this may have been far more than a cartel raid. This video is #sponsored by Current. Get Current! Sign up at https://current.com/johnnymitchell?utm_source=inf&utm_campaign=johnnymitchell&utm_adgroup=Johnny_Mitchell_3_2026 and use MY promo code JOHNNYMITCHELL to get $50! and unlock tools like a paycheck advance, credit building, and more. Terms and conditions apply. See https://current.com/legal_disclaimers for details. We get into the rumors that Mencho surrendered, the theory that he was executed instead of arrested, and why Ed believes the highest levels of the Mexican deep state may have wanted him dead. We also talk about CJNG’s response, the cartel’s growing resemblance to an insurgency, military corruption, the World Cup security angle, and what Mencho’s death really changes for drug trafficking in Mexico. If you thought this was a clean win for the government, think again. Topics include: -Was El Mencho killed in a firefight or executed after surrendering? -Why the Mexican military may have acted on its own -The cartel roadblocks, fires, and nationwide retaliation -Corruption inside the military and federal forces -Why CJNG may be evolving into a political insurgency -Whether Mencho’s death changes anything at all -The possibility of future U.S. involvement in Mexico Go Support Ed! Join the Telegram: https://rotten.mx YouTube: @manifestoradionetwork3191 IG: https://www.instagram.com/manifestoradiopodcast/ This Episode Is #Sponsored By The Following: Current! Current is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. FDIC insurance up to $250,000 only covers the failure of an FDIC-insured bank. Certain conditions must be satisfied for pass-through deposit insurance coverage to apply. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Member FDIC, and/or Cross River Bank, Member FDIC. Betterhelp! Your emotional wellbeing matters. Find support and feel lighter in therapy. Sign up and get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/connect. PrizePicks! Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/CONNECT and use code CONNECT to get $50 in daily fantasy lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow 00:00 Rumors & Theories About Mencho's Death 02:25 Ed Calderon Joins the Conversation 05:04 Cartel Power Shifts & New Players 07:00 CJNG Response & Insurgency Tactics 10:00 The Raid: What Really Happened? 14:14 How Was Mencho Located and Taken Down? 18:46 Aftermath & The Government’s Role 20:51 This Episode Is Sponsored By Current 22:06 Military Power & Deep State in Mexico 31:00 Conspiracy vs. Reality: Did Mencho Surrender? 35:00 Cartel-Government Deals & Fallout 39:45 This Episode Is Sponsored By Betterhelp and PrizePicks 42:35 Public Reactions & National Sentiment 47:00 Violence, Missing People, and Statistics 50:20 Shifts in Alliances & Drug Routes 01:04:08 US-Mexico Relations & Future Scenarios 01:13:01 Advice for Troubled Times & Closing Thoughts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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you can get close to this man or could get close to this man by land. It almost seems like he had an agreement with the federal government, which he left written proof of. It's been almost a month since Mexican drug lord El Mentiono was ambushed and killed by federal agents outside of his safe house in Halisco, Mexico. And as expected, the online rumors and conspiracy theories have been endless. Mencho's not really dead. It was the American Navy SEALs who killed him, his mistress turned him in, et cetera, et cetera. So to get a more clear understanding of what most likely happened that day and who was behind it, I thought who better to talk to than former Mexican federal agent himself, Ed Calderon. Ed lays out what really happened that day and exposes

the highest levels of the Mexican deep state as the ones behind this assassination. That's right, they were never planning on arresting Mencho. Buckle up, this will blow your mind, the one and only Ed Calderon right here on The Connect with Johnny Mitchell. Legend Ed Calderon is with us today. He probably gives the best breakdown of anybody that I've heard on the internet so far about what really happened to Mencho. But I'd love to hear your thoughts. I know you have some opinions on this.

So drop them in the comments. And if you haven't subscribed to the channel yet, do me a favor. Hit that subscribe button and turn on the alert bell. It really helps us out. Thank you so much, you guys. Enjoy. Ed Calderon. You did get a nice little dad.

Actually, I could see it. We were on the beach. We were in the DR, dude, interviewing some, a head down there. bro boy are they moving a lot of work out of that fucking island no no no the ocean is safe it's the Gulf of America now

well I'll tell you what striking Iran yeah yeah yeah go go go go go go they're like they're like a third base yeah round it in dude yeah they're like a third base coach go go go is navi that is something I've heard It's Naviidad.

It's Naviad. It's Naviad. But that's proof like, you know, the Lord takeeth away, but then he giveth again. Yeah. Because I do think trafficking, well, you tell me what you think because, you know, you see them moving the satellite defense systems out of South Korea. They're moving it all to Israel and everything is going to the Middle East. So you've got to assume that probably some drug interdiction resource,

are moving away? Or do you think it's all, do you think that actually really puts a dent in law enforcement in the Caribbean? What's going on in Iran? I mean, I think there's some naval assets that are pretty essential that the United States doesn't have a lot of, although we would like to think that,

you know, movies are real and that we can fight the Transformers and aliens and Al-Qaeda all at the same time across the globe. Probably not so. But you do see kind of the first direct action on the ground U.S. military assets working in Ecuador as the Iranian incident is happening

and you're seeing some stuff that is kind of you know first of its kind as far as the era boots on the ground you know some giant cocaine factories being blown up by the Mexican by the U.S. military working with the Ecuadorians

because apparently the senior law cartel and the New Generation cartel had you know their own factions down there fighting it out. But yeah, you do see some sort of diminishment as far as military assets in the Pacific and the Atlantic side of things. And people are saying it's, it's, uh, nabit right now. Uh, the things are getting through.

It's snowing, baby. Hey, it's 90 degrees in Austin, but it's snowing. South by Southwest, dude. It's going to be snowing. They love their cocaine here in Texas. One of the things that people like need to kind of realize as well with all the movement going on, you know, there was a major decapitation on the Pacific side. They do hold control over all the way over to the Gulf. But there's a lot of new players.

And there's a lot of security features that some of these organizations have to keep new guys from doing their thing that aren't in play right now. So like it's, you know, innovation, you know, new, new people. It's very exciting. It's a very exciting time, apparently right now. I'm very excited for, you know, the next drug lord, the ascendant. There's got to be somebody that's ascending. I don't think it's going to be. So this is what I think.

If people want to look at what I'm referencing, rotten.m.x. rotten.mx. It's a website. It leads you to a telegram account that we run. And it is basically a bunch of horrible videos that we can't post anywhere else. That's where they go. Rotten.m.x. Okay. There is a video of the new generation cartel that is decapitated right now. So I don't know why they're operating. Executing a bunch of people in Veracruz because they are now moving into that region and they're about to kill all the extortionists and all the abductors, you know, the same propaganda that they always kind of say.

So they're very much expanding, which shouldn't be the case if you just decapitated such a large organization like that, but it's, it's apparently often running to the races. So nothing really changed. Kind of like the Ayatollah getting smoked. Just bring up the next one. Hey, everybody take one step forward. I think in this case, it's, you know, one of the things I've always kind of like said about specifically that cartel is that they're exhibiting a lot of things that are very reminiscent of the Colombian FARC units when they started kind of getting originated. They're very much churning themselves into like a counterinsurgency type thing.

you saw the killing of their figurehead and their response was very reminiscent of a disruptive insurgency force across the country and after they quieted down because they saw they were turning the local populace against them now they're targeting um member high-level members of mornana because they say they're saying that their agreements with them weren't met, right? So you're referring to the Morena party. Yeah, Morena party. The Morana political party for just for our audience. And we went from having the president of Mexico,

uh, shaking hands and just being in the out, being out with the peoples, the day of the operation with, uh, against Almencho. So now her having a contingency of special operations around her. Right. Uh, so there's, there's, uh, There's something to be said about the change that we, I think more than anything, I think they're changing their approach. I think they're going to turn into a revolutionary group probably pretty soon. Right.

Okay. So great. Let's talk about the raid. Let's talk about what happened because people get very angry when you post a fun conspiracy video online and they think they got the scoop. They're like, no, no, no, no, no. My third cousin went to school with Mancho. and I can tell you for a fact he's alive. Okay.

So let's start with that. Let's start with that kooky conspiracy. Sure. Is Mencho alive in Guam living with Tupac? Well, let's let's start off by saying like, dude, I'm, I don't know anything. All I know is what they tell me every now and then, you know? Yeah. I was somebody that was saying that he was alive when a lot of people were saying that he was dead and horror.

didn't exist. Why? Because I know people in Halisco and Colima and in that area and all of them are like, oh yeah, he's very much alive. They'll kill you if he'd take a picture of him or he was at, he was at that stadium or he was at that concert. He would hear these things. Like he's very much alive. And now he is very much dead. Right. The the whole, the whole, uh, the whole, uh, the whole is he alive, is he dead thing? I think he probably utilized that throughout his life as a pretty interesting weapon. The whole he's sick. We didn't see any evidence of him being a dialysis.

We saw him that he was taking a lot of medication for certain maladies, but probably not dialysis. So there was a lot of things around. He wasn't even named Nemesio. Nemesio was not his name. They added that at some point, apparently. His death certificate doesn't contain. the name Nemesio. So yeah, a lot of things were found out after his death and he is very much

dead. The reaction that we saw across the country is not something you would see because they killed an imaginary person. Right. Right. Wow, that's incredible. What was his name then, Rubin? Basically, the Nemesio part was added. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Did you see that video that came out of him drinking a beer driving? Yes. And like I have a lot of people trying to verify that video. The only thing about that video that seems to be very real is that giant gold chain on his wrist. That and Ed, what kind of beer is he drinking? Oh, Tecate Light.

Dude. To me, that's where I was like, oh, this is real. That's real shit. If you know anything about the cartels, that's their beer of choice. Not Tecate, Tecate light, because they like to be healthy. They like to keep their carbs to a minimum. They want to, they want to,

they want to, they want to drink a beer that they can drink the whole day. Oh. That makes sense. That's, that's what they tecate light is about, no, I was a drunk.

I would drink fucking tecate roja, tall can. Mangalaraga, the one that's like the size of your, you know, that's what I like to drink. But I liked, you used to like to drink.

But yeah, the gold chain. and that they got the that's probably El Mentionia driving around without a care in the world gangster but he's dead

so I was kind of just kidding about that I think every reasonable person knows that you can't fake that and they wouldn't have basically tried to cause a civil war if he hadn't actually been killed the next let's unpack this piece by piece now one of the recent things I've heard

is that he was surrendering like he wasn't in a shoot out he had given himself up and they smoked him anyways what's your take on that so again i all i can speak of is what i've heard um and if people can i don't know the there is no evidence of a prolonged firefight on in and or around the house that is allegedly his or the house that he was utilizing as a safe house um There were a few people there from the media showing up to her house, holding bullets in their hands, saying like, oh, they fired these bullets inside of this house, but there's no damage. It's because the previous reporter that was there, grabbed them from the outside, brought them inside, left them on a countertop.

And then you got this whole, you know, whatever. What probably happened, and this is something that I've tried to figure out because of the nature of who he is and where he was. Um, this is a mountain, this is like a pine area, forested area, a lot of high, high value, high network cavans there. Um, he was probably there with a small contingency of his, uh, direct security forces, uh, which, you know, tracks with some of the weaponry that he said they found there, uh, RPGs, which is something that he's known for, being able to take down helicopter. or they found a few wretched RPGs on a on a tree uh stuck against a tree outside a few high like

a few very specialized rifles that only special operations has has or contracted to have in the military in the United States were found in the event I don't think they were dropped there by anybody I think these cartel guys had them uh for their defense there's no way you can get close to this man or could get close to this man by land he has concerns centric rings of security around him, scouts, by the ledgers that he left behind. We see that he was paying the state, the local, and the federal police, as well as the military. So there's no way you can get near him by land in any way, shape, or form with enough numbers

to get him without people seeing it. So there's a lot of stories about how they tracked him down there. They're saying that it was a female that led him, a significant other that led him to him. They're saying that American drones were utilized for this, which I kind of think is very, very true. At some point during the night and the operation of them tracking him down to that point, a thermal image of a man walking out of that house and hugging the female outside was the go-ahead that they needed. There's nobody who's going to hug that woman in a very familiar way. So that I think that's what I keep hearing among circles, that that's how they figured that he was really there.

He was smart enough to always keep himself under a roof. but that kind of gave him away when he went outside and said goodbye to this person. That's what I've kind of like gathered from this. And so that woman did set him up then or she just happened to be there? I think they were working signals intelligence on her. I think they were tracking her. And I think he'll mention it was pretty safe in the knowledge that he was paying enough people to not worry about. I think that's what I saw.

He was, he was, oh, they're not going to, they're going to come and get me. I'm paying everybody off. I have all these agreements. I don't think they're going to get me. Because he was so out in the open. Like these, he was in like cabins that wealthy people, he had neighbors. It was like a big resort kind of. Yeah.

What Americans would be, there would be a golf course if it was American. Aspen. There you go. He was an Aspen. Right. The rich, Holescanios surrounding. him, he wasn't in the mountains, which is wild. So he really felt like he had the shit on lock.

It almost seems like he had an agreement with the federal government, which he left written proof of there. Right. So at some point during the night, and again, this is all hearsay, at some point in the night, probably from a high altitude, members of the Mexican Army Special Operations community dropped in from the sky. This is something that they've displayed a few times before in certain operations. I think they jumped in to get El Chapo's son as well.

This is a capability that they've been, they realize it's a high value skill and a high value way of approaching some of these guys. because on the ground they're pretty hard to get. So it's something they've been developing for a while. They probably dropped in at some point during the night, and the skirmish was probably very clear outside of the property. El Mancho took a small contingency of his bodyguards and then made a run for it and tried to get into the mountainous hillside behind the property. there are reports and rumors of him basically giving up and being shot anyway,

which prompted the Mexican federal government to have a press conference specifically about that, which is pretty interesting. Why would you have a press conference over something that didn't happen? But apparently at some point, during this event. He was held at gunpoint. And again, this is some people are saying this.

I have no idea, but some people are saying that he would basically gave himself up and was subsequently shot or killed there at on the spot. Other people are saying that he was engaged in a firefight along with his, with his bodyguards against the Mexican Special Operations guys. trying to grab him and he received several impacts on his thoracic area which led him to be medevaced out of the area towards further medical management somewhere in wallahara and along the way he perished and they switched flight plans to Mexico City to verify the body through biometrics by the Americans which happened later on that uh I think later on that day if not the

next day, the verification came from the Americans as far of the body. As this was going on, his men radioed out and alerted everybody about the fact that the federal Los Federals were there. There's, again, there's a lot of nicknames out there and I have a lot of head injuries and I don't remember all of them. El Tully was a high-level operative, I think, for El Mencho. He was basically their communications guy. While the operation had concluded and kind of people were figuring out the Lamentja was dead, Altuli was on a hillside somewhere in the,

in Halisco basically radioing out instructions to every single new generation cartel loyal cell to basically burn oxles or anything that could be disruptive. They targeted American gasoline companies. because they had this idea that that would affect the Americans. OXOs because they have this idea that the Morena Party has some sort of stake in them. And blocking roads and burning shit all over the country where they have any sort of sway or power. If you overlap the map of the theoretical map where they have sway or power and you put it where the fires were, it's like a perfect lay. So like if anybody had any doubts about those maps.

And it seemed to me and to anybody observing this that the Mexican government had absolutely no preparation for this at the highest levels. The president of Mexico was like Chile was basically doing her normal thing. You know, she wasn't in a bunker. She wasn't in a situation room somewhere. she was just doing her own thing and this operation seemed to seem to have come out of nowhere it's an odd

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the most believable. One, Harfuge and Claudia, Shanebom knew about the event. Both of them were not in a safe place and nor a position where you would be after taking out to Mexico's biggest cartel head. I mean, it doesn't track in my mind. Maybe they were just like going through the motions to try and deceive or not to have anybody aware of what was going to happen. That doesn't track to me. Or the Mexican army and the Mexican military independently chose to do this. How is that possible? How do they have the authority to do that?

That's the power behind the throne in Mexico. The Mexican military is a ginormous power. And again, you know, we can go back a few years and see how they were completely complicit in some of the watchy coal stuff and fuel theft and all that. Sorry, just to interrupt for people that should show. check that out if they're interested. It was basically like Mexico's version of WikiLeaks, right? It's a, they discovered that the Mexican military, along with the Mexican Marina, the Marines,

were basically stealing fuel by the millions for a whole presidency with Dandres Manor-Lopez Oredo. And within these fuel deposits, that they were shipping and stealing and moving about the country, you know, they had some new generation cartel high tech, uh, uh,

weaponry that they brought in from northern Africa, uh, into Mexico. So there's, there's a bunch of links there. Um, that is fascinating. You guys are run literally by the military.

Mexico is ran by the generals, not really by the president. I think they have enough power to, do something like this. Like, hey, we're just going to eliminate this guy before he's, you know, before anything, before he decides to invite Sean Penn over. Yeah. I think Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to come down this time.

Yeah. Before he has anybody like coming down to talk about some of the stuff he knows. And, and again, you saw the reaction that, that, that, across the country. Yeah. And then you saw the communications that they were issuing through their WhatsApp groups of, hey, the government hasn't met their end of the bargain, apparently. So we're going to set everything on fire. My God. That was the reaction they had.

Didn't have like, oh, they got our guy. Right. No, it was it was El Culia Canasa, but at a nationwide scale. It was like they betrayed us. Yeah. It's like, hey, dude, we're paying you. What are you doing? Yeah. Fuck off, man. We're homies. Did you know how to get the last payment? Yeah. And, you know, again, this is, people should like track some of this.

We saw many, I think over, over, I think over 40 federal police officers were killed in the subsequent attacks during this event. Were they killed during the subsequent attacks or were they killed during the event? Memorial Day weekend is almost here, and it's time to kick off summer right. When I'm getting ready for the first big weekend of summer, total wine and more is my go-to, especially when I'm firing up the grill with family. I'll grab refreshing beers, easy drinking wines, and some hard seltzers for the cooler. And with everything that goes into summer, it's nice knowing you're getting the lowest prices. Total wine and more.

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because perhaps they were guarding Signor Bencho? These are questions being issued by people out there. Well, I was going to ask you about that because I wondered why it was, and when you say federal allies, it was the national guard. They were specifically the ones being targeted. And we,

go ahead. We, we talked, last time we talked, there was like the attempted arrest of, last time we talked, we talked about the almost, they almost caught El Mentiono,

I think, I think we talked about this. Yeah. Where he had national guard units protecting. Those were the guys that slowed down. Right. Their, his pursuance.

So a lot of hazy things. Some of these kids were caught up when I say kids, because some of these National Guard unit members were kids, were caught up in ambushes after the event again, which is also horrible because they weren't warned and there was no preparation at all for them. They were just left to their devices after this operation, which is also bad.

but it's there's something that's that aren't tracking to anybody that kind of observes this event this decapitation occurred in a host city for the World Cup yeah like like a near near the in the host state and near the host city for the World Cup we saw dudes with 8 with AK 47 shooting up planes where all the invitation all the people are going to fly in for the world cup at the airport so let's say you and me are are her fush and claude shame bomb would we decide to do this operation during such a key moment in our no right right this is the copomundo this is like we're we're a real country now we're an international country we need we need good press i mean yeah i mean capturing mencho i guess would be good press, but not in this way.

Like, the whole government seemed just as surprised as the cartel. No. So if, again, if you're, if you're like, you know, Mexican Alex Jones or something, pedophol priest and all that. Sassar d'A de pedophilia. Sassadote of perifia. Las anas son gay. If you're that, like a conspiracy theory is like, well, I mean, they wouldn't,

I wouldn't think them as politicians would choose to have such an operation disclosed to such an event on one end. And on the other end, the military would probably be well served silencing their biggest partner in the region before more things were found about their relationship. Because right now, that's the whole thing. The Mexican military, La Marina, they're all under a giant microscope right now. did so and that makes sense when you look at the fact i believe that a bunch of navy seals had just entered mexico a few there was a few days before the raid right there was a cargo plane mysteriously landing there was supposedly something about transport and stuff like that i don't know might have been a fucking reaper drone in one of those things uh there are some seals coming

now, which is a very regular thing. Like, they do trading with foreign forces, but maybe, you know, maybe some of them were the ones that jumped in. I don't know. If you look at high altitude jumps of this nature, death group from the seals or maybe Delta are the ones that are capable of doing something like this. But I don't see them. I don't see it.

I don't see the United States sending an elite unit here to eliminate El Mancho. That's no. I see the Mexican military seeing their chance asking the U.S. for some air assets to like verify and then eliminating one of their business partners. Maybe I don't know. I don't know. Or eliminating this threat to public safety in Mexico. Well, definitely the Americans would want. want the arrest because you want the headlines.

Yes. And also we saw the subsequent reaction by the Americans through Trump, which is like, yeah, we, we, we were very much involved. And the Mexicans were like, well, you kind of did something, but not that much. So there was, you could see, you could see how, I mean, think about it. it is the biggest cartel head, like next to El Mayo. So you would think, you know, El Maya was taken by the Americans alive because of his value. El Mention was killed by the Mexicans because of what he knows. That's right.

I think that's what I would think. Also, another thing that people need to, like, really pay attention to. You just jumped in from a high altitude or somehow, materialize yourself in the compound of the world's most dangerous and influential drug trafficker. And you chase him outside. You kill him because he defended himself or whatever. And then you just leave. And you leave one of the biggest information treasure troves of any cartel head in recent history just lying out there for these narco reporters to just walk in like i'm reading el mencha's diary like why would you leave all that there i i worked in law enforcement for about 12 years

specifically against organized crime the site exploitation of that area i we would have left that house ransacked anything with paper anything with the battery we would be dude we will be looking through the walls at see if we would find like a gold stash or something dude but no right they just you know right they they achieved their objective and that's all they wanted and they just left the compound with everything in it no right no no federal prosecution office came into corn off the area which means that the military isn't talking to them right No, dude. Yeah.

Again, people are just walking into this fucking house. Right. It's like there's no tape around it. There's no crime scene. It's just Luis Chaparro there. Just picking the lock, dude. Yeah. Not even that.

The door was open. People were being let in. That's crazy. You see, again, you see all these, these reporters that are reading his ledgers. Yeah. Like, like, like, a few things we learned. man, it sucks being a fucking Sicario, apparently.

You can make more working out an oxo. He was paying his soldiers in the ledger they found less than the minimum wage in Mexico. Yes. So fuck. That's a bummer, dude. That's pretty bad. And also you saw he was paying the federal police. Yeah.

Where's the swarm of arrest after this event? I haven't, I've been trying, I've been keeping an eye on this. I know people in Guard de Nacional and I know people in Secretariatia Security Public Federal and there's nothing. There's no

a high level arrest of like anybody in Guardre National that I've managed to see maybe they're doing it in secret or something but there was long as ledgers he was he was very much

safe there. He was surprised. He was like, holy shit these guys. are actually tried to do this. Well, did you hear the recording of him? Was that real? Do you see that recording of him on Twitter?

Yeah. It's bouncing around? You don't think that was real? I don't think it's real. Where he's cussing out the woman. He's saying, I'm going to fuck it. What was her name? Whatever the influencer was that he was banging.

She betrayed me. I'm going to kill her. Astos, he was, I loved how he cussed. Dude, anybody that wants to hear like really cool Mexican Spanish, listen to him talk it's pretty awesome listen to his original recording when he called the

this the like the Gualaara police commander yeah yeah like hey this mancho way so mancho way calm as so

pinch perros yeah yeah we're just he said we have all of your guys located yeah like just fucking chill

but basically he calls the head of the police it tells him to chill the fuck out Yeah. Or else he's going to kill all of them. And they do. Yeah. Because that was his power. He didn't, I think he was, that was the first and last time we probably saw a video recording of his voice. He was very aware of the fact that that was probably a mistake. Right. So then the question is, why do you think now, if we're going to assume with very good conjecture that this was a hit and not an arrest, why did the generals feel like now they had to do it. Could it have been, you know, rumors were flying around online that he was getting ready to make a deal with the government to save his son who's doing life in an American prison? What do you think about that? I mean, again, we've seen the strife within the Mexican government that El Mio Sambada's arrest and, and, and, and, you, and,

and Maduro flight to New York has caused them, right? It is something they blame that. They blame the Americans for the violence in Kulikon because of this arrest. So I think if we're, if I, if I, what I'm looking at all this, I'm taking a few things into account. The fact that the Mexican military apparatus at all levels is currently under very high scrutiny. when they've we saw a voice recording of a high level admiral talking to the head of the marina about what was going on with all the fuel theft and then he got shot you know so that's going on in the background of this we've we saw the traditionally uncorruptible marina that was used for the

chopper raid now turned into the one of the most corrupt institutions that the military has because apparently they were smuggling not only fuel, but firearms for the new generation cartel. This is something that is already that's out there. Oh my God. So that was going on the background. That's wild. That's going on the background.

Those are investigations that are going on the background. That's going on the background. And if you're going to move any sort of fuel or stuff through any of the supports in this area, you would assume that probably the new generation cartel has some sort of. or it deals with it. So I think it's very suspicious that this, this hit happened after the amount of noise that was being screamed around the military's involvement

with organized crime. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. And I think the Maduro raid, I think that the heat, the heat has just been enormous. So, you know,

the top generals might have looked at this and been like, cut all ties. Yeah. Yeah. It's time. that's that's that's that's me being

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alienigenes in the luna dude this is this is something I've heard echoed across I'm not the only one

saying this but this is something you hear echoed by a few people out there. Is it a good thing? I would say yes, but nothing has changed. And if people

think anything has changed, go to rotten.m.x and see a video that the same organization just posted as they're making their way into Veracruz. And this is not rotten.com for all you, GenX and millennials. This is not tub girl.

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was a mean guy wasn't a very nice guy uh that's that's for sure let's let's let's let's let's let's let's let's I'm gonna say this he was very well loved uh he probably was a nightmare for his enemies but the amount of love and legit uh I don't know demonstrations of devotion seen during his uh funeral lead me to believe that he was very much a hero for at least the people around him and the people and the community that he benefited. Yeah. So I believe that for sure. Which, again, puts us in a weird territory where eventually one of these guys is going to be like, it's going to be a martyr and it's going to wake, awaken something in some of these communities, maybe.

Like, I think it already has. I think they're very much viewing themselves as under attack by. a corrupt federal government. Wow. And, you know, that's how you start an insertion, like a true insurgency. Getting back to what you were saying, like you think this could spiral into something like what the FARC was in Colombia. It's not, of course, drug trafficking is the economy behind it and a lot of other crimes,

but it's a political movement now. Yeah. They localize, you know, they start, they stop doing their international shenanigans. and they localized and they start becoming a guerrilla force in the region. And they politicized. They already have political candidates that won. And there are in the Morena Party and other parties. So all they do is like, well, now we're going to fight corrupt elements of the government, you know, targeted killings.

Do you think that the rural and small town, Mexico, like the community we went to on the ranch where the CJNG used to train and is not. training again. Do you think, do you think that shout out to that, shout out to that guy, dude. Bro, bro. They, like, the, there, a few videos came out of that specific place where we were hanging out. Are you serious? Jesus Christ. Them amassing their, their, their convoy. Boy, do we have good timing with that, dude. Dude, let's not go back there. We will not. But do you think they, like, because all we hear about is like how the middle class is growing in Mexico and Shane Baum has record favorability numbers and the minimum wage is rising and people have been there's more there's less poor people now than there are people in the middle class but do you so do you think those small

communities in Mexico those are still are more loyal to the yeah the cartel than they are to the government yeah some and like we're seeing changes in place like Cina law where the fight has been so bad and they're so degraded that the benefits and the the cons versus the benefits are now being outweighed. But not in some of the regions where the four-letter organization works. Again, if people are doubting this, look up El Mentiono's gravesite right now. It is covered in flowers. Um, so I think they, they, they are very well liked and protected and there's no way an organization of that size can survive without the people around it protecting it.

So yeah, yeah, I think some, some of these aspects of the, of, of, of, of Mexico and its changes are not touching most of these people who are living in these rural areas. Hmm. Yeah, I think, I'm sure he was, you know, clearly he was a romantic. The guy was still banging dash at 60 with a bad, bad kidneys. He is a Mexican man after all. You know, but you know, his organization really, you know what they do to people. They disintegrate them in acid. They light them on fire with flame throwers, you know, unless that's AI. And I know he doesn't make every decision, right?

But, you know. Yeah. I mean, it kind of makes my skin crawl a little bit. He was not, he's not a good guy. Yeah. But again, we can, we can say that. But he still has a giant grave covered in flowers. And many people were crying along the route.

And what that is not the reality of the people around him, a lot of the people around him. So we have to take that into account, I guess. Yes. Yes. see there's dude i think for me more than anything it's all the missing people posters that we saw in downtown wala hara i think that like it's like a zombie movie yeah um i think like that i think is the evil side of whatever this is yes that's what i mean right like do you think that so the mexican homicide rate they say it's like the lowest that it's been

in recorded history i just read that do you think but you see the disappearances are some of the highest that it's been in a long time. Do you think those are, do you think the homicide rate's actually coming down? Or do you think it's been offset by these bodies that have been buried? I think there are, I mean, I think the federal government is actively targeting all these groups that are looking for bodies and stopping them. That's one. Yeah, because they don't like those numbers being fucking fucked with. I think some of those numbers that we're seeing are not, dude, I used to work for the government.

Those fucking numbers are not are skewed. Are you saying they can get stats wrong in Mexico? Oh, they just, you know, he just changed the wording, you know. Was it a disappearance? Was it a forced disappearance? Was there violence? Are they just gone? What age group were they?

Oh, they're, they're, they're 40 and up. Well, that could be anything. Could be, you know, immigration. But they're young. Oh, this could be organized. So they do. It's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Spread it out. So it doesn't just, yeah, spread it out. The, I don't trust any of those numbers of the government spouses. From my perspective and from the hundreds. of people that I have all around Mexico sending me horrible videos of shit that happened and information about some of the stuff that's going on.

I don't see any of that. I mean, recently there was an operation called Operation Vakanora and they basically took out El Mayo Zambada operatives from Sonora, Sinaloa, and Baja.

It was a pretty big operation, coordinated one. They took a bunch of like you know, Lugartagnan, like lieutenants that people were like in charge of shit in the areas. So it seems to be like a concentrated effort by Harfush and the federal government to like fucking do shit to step it up. Because we're heading to the World Cup and everything needs to be safe. And the illusion of safety has to be there. Right.

But then there's videos like the one I just posted. So I don't know. I think it's the government is living in a different reality than most Mexicans. Now, what does this do with Mencho Gone? Does that dissolve the relationship that they had, the alliance they had with the Chippisa? Not at all. Cardinero's still alive. The guy that is in charge of that specific alliance is still alive and they're still

issuing collected, like conjoined statements against the Mayo band in Sinaloa. So I don't think anything's changed on that realm. there are a lot of rumblings as far as who's going to be the next one. We're not going to see like a true, like I'm the guy, I think in probably a year when everything settles and when we see exactly who was left with enough to have power over the rest. There's probably like five or six big cells out there. There's rumors of some of them turning coat and going to going and aligning themselves with

Lamaiza, specifically. some of the some of the older factions in places like colima and again everything you hear a lot of stuff around colima and center around colima it's because of the giant fucking port there um which in the past the port of monzineo yeah which in the past everybody thought it was like oh it's all about the drugs and all the shit coming through the port but it's also about the oil theft and what she called shit

going through that port which dwarfs any sort of illicit drug market money being made by anybody. Well, hey, I know a region of the world that could really use some oil right now. Dude. So, you know, maybe that, I mean, who knows? If they don't get oil, the black market will always fill gaps in the world, in the market. The black market will always step up. So that is a possibility.

You could see smuggled oil going to the Middle East from Mexico. Or like all the cartels saying like, fuck this drug bullshit. Let's get into oil. Right. Right. Let's get into the oils, I guess, which they have been doing for decades now.

It's just, I don't know. I think the, what I'm seeing is this shift from, they're aware that eyes are in the sky. When they say they, I mean, criminal organizations and Mexican federal government.

So they can't hide shit. they're aware that they have people listening. So, you know, this seems like they're trying to cover their tracks. And they're trying to, you know, solve everything before we get to a stage where, you know, the United States is done with Iran and, you know, maybe they want to make Mexico great again or whatever. Well, that's a great segue because, okay, so say that, I think we're going to be pulled in. I think if we really go boots on the ground in Iran,

it's going to probably forever change the United States. But say that they pull out in like a month. They just, there's some color, they lie. They say, yeah, we won, blah, blah. Do you think they'll turn the ferocity because they can't win on the world stage anymore? Do you think they'll turn the power of the U.S. military on to, well, definitely Cuba

looks like it's next. That'll be, they could do that before. They could do that in the morning and be back for lunch. But do you think, because you've been prophesizing for years now that it's going to be some kind of military incursion into Mexico from the U.S. Do you think

that this raises that probability? Yes. Yes. I think, I don't know. The the intention of the United States and the powers it be seem to be securing a continental security apparatus around itself. By this I mean energy, by this I mean influence, minerals and security. And that's what you're seeing. And some people

are not invited to that party. And whoever isn't invited to that party in whatever countries they lead are on the list in my mind. Now, you, You have Mexico, which is a very complex place. And again, I'm not advocating military intervention in Mexico. Some people online think, I'm like, hey, you just want the Americans to come in. I don't want the Americans to come in because I've seen what that looks like in other parts of the world. I think at some point, the United States is realizing that it has to plug in its industrial plant somewhere. And it's already there in Mexico.

what Mexico doesn't have is security guarantees for the people and the companies wanting to set up a Tesla plant in Monterey or wanting to set up an electric vehicle plant somewhere in northern Mexico. They don't have that ability to guarantee security. So what are they going to do? You know? I don't know. Well, I'd say they're probably going to run a contingence of giant convoy of people from Pendleton all the way down to Baja. They're going to set up a staging area all down the, the, the, the Baja Peninsula and fly operations into Mexico proper. And they're probably going to make Mexico, Puerto Rico.

Oh, fuck. Now, do you think, does Mexico, do the politicians have the ability to stop that? I feel like if Harfuge, because you said Harfuge is going to be the next president, right? Yeah. Do you think he will become like a Buckeli and ally with like super tight with the Americans? The only way I think Mexico can avert any of this, I think is a regime change. And we can go when I say regime change. I mean, again, we've seen the rhetoric of the president of Colombia.

And we saw the rhetoric of the president of Venezuela. and then what happened afterwards. And some of the same rhetoric as being said by the current president of Mexico. And we were the last faucet of oil being shut off to the Cubans. Mexico was.

Which, you know, puts us on a list. Right. Harfush seems to be the perfect candidate. He's all about security.

He has, has successfully led a lot of security operations in Mexico. He apparently is like the guiding force of this new modernization and revampment of the federal police in Mexico. He seems to be the Buckele type character. He's not bad looking. Chicks have like a meme accounts about the guy not being bad looking. He's not as leftist, at least in. whatever like his relationship uh he's a perfect candidate uh if i was the americans that's who i would

want uh there to work with which leads me to think that at some point soon we're probably going to see maybe a soft uh regime change with him now being set set in and i'm not saying he's a CIA operative but you know but uh it's a lot easier to be a CIA operative than people think Like, oh yeah. Dude, I was a CIA guy, apparently, you know. I've known you a long time, Ed, and we've shared some intimate moments, and I still am not certain. But you're not. Dude, if I am, dude, they need to get fucking somebody in there fucking human resources.

For sure. This is not the CIA of the John F. Kennedy era. But you see the amount of people who are kind of rooting for him. and it's across the board I think if any sort of event is on the horizon like a military event

you know I don't know if you if you are the current administration and you're seeing the writing on the wall as far as the midterms and and you know how not liked some of the policies have been

and how you weren't supposed to pull us into a war and now we're in a war and I think whatever it happens in the next few months as far as Iran is going to dictate probably what happens next. In Mexico. In Mexico. So if it's a prolonged engagement out there, I think we're pretty much, this is off the list for now. But if it isn't, what's the only way you can prolong your stay in office historically?

In Mexico or the U.S.? in the U.S. War. That makes sense. Wow. I don't know. It's a theory. Again.

It doesn't feel like that right now. It feels like this is the end of that old political trick. Yeah. But how do Mexican people feel like after the raid? How did people your sense of how people felt? They're like, this is a blow to organize crime. And Mexico's like turning for the best. and yeah, kill those bastards.

I mean, I know that the rural communities were crying and throwing flowers, you know, at Mencho's casket and stuff like that. But yeah, how did like, you know, more ordinary Mexicans feel? It was viewed with a lot of, I mean, you saw a lot of like weird nationalism pop up, which is interesting.

A lot of pro-military sentiment popped up. a lot of like hey these guys are actually dying you know uh doing some of these things so we probably should honor them i guess um you saw some of that you saw the clear uh sign that most mexicans were aware of but hadn't really confirmed about how disruptive these organizations could be if they decided to be you know i mean they were shooting up airports um dude the damage they caused had to be in like, it probably cost a billion dollars worth of damage between the fires and the insurance

policies they're going up and all the, all the green goes, like a vacation's ruined. Dude. My favorite part, by the way. Dude. But you see, I think Mexicans are like, oh, fuck, the government is

really in control, apparently. You saw a lot of that. You saw definitely a lot of questions. about its ineptitude to respond to the after crisis. And a Mexican federal government scrambling to try and explain away why it wasn't, oh, we wanted to be secretive about the operation, this, that. But so it means you don't trust your own people in the federal government.

And why aren't you arresting them? So it's nebulous. I think what you're hearing now from the federal government is a constant. Like, it's safe. Everything's safe. Everything's changing. Come to the World Cup. Everything's fine.

There was like a military, there was like a special forces, a general guy on the president's morning news briefing, explaining how they were going to keep everybody safe by all these special operations guys being everywhere. You know. Right. Right. So are those people that lost all their property, you know, in the aftermath, people who got their cars jacked, their businesses burned, like, are they going to get reimbursed for that? No. That's like the, I posted a picture of a guy.

I think I was somewhere outside of Kalima. His truck was burned and put him across a roadway. that was his sole source of income for him and his family of four nobody is going to pay him back for the truck that these cartel guys strewn across the road and bird right um we also saw a bunch of communities and being abandoned during these events because of the violence so nobody's going to house any of these people there's no Mexican FEMA,

cartel FEMA, jumping in there and like, oh, we're going to house you in this new region now, you know? Mm-hmm. So there's,

there's a bunch of people displaced. There's a bunch of people losing everything. There's a bunch of Americans that lost their vacation. Costco lost a giant store in Puerto Vallarta. I know. I saw that.

Dude, which was pretty funny. Why Costco? Fuck Costco. It's fucking, you had to imagine this new generation cartel guy out there. It's like, fuck.

What can we burn? And he sees Costco. I fuck Costco. Let's go burn Costco. So I'm fond of super. A la Verga de Costco. Well, that's a big fuck you to Mexicans to burn a Costco.

Dude. You've been to a Costco? It's all Mexicans. It's like burning Disneyland, dude. Dude, it was, it was a,

it was a blow, I guess. But, uh, I don't, that's what I see. It's a country divided in a lot of ways. Yeah.

Different people reacting into it differently. Most Mexicans have had it with, this bullshit. We're done. We're like the cold cartel thing. Like like a big dude. So we're done like most Mexicans are done with it. We're also done.

We're also done with the looming threat of, you know, American war and intervention. That's something that has a lot of Mexicans with a lot of anxiety. They don't welcome it. Most Mexicans do not welcome any of that. Although there's some politicians out there screaming for intervention by the United States. but most people just are aware

that it's a rock in a hard place you know, totally. Either things stay the way they are or we make a deal with the devil, you know, which is how they view it, you know. And they're not wrong, really. Mexico close, far from heaven,

but close to the United States is the whole joke that Mexicans say, you know. So what becomes of the drug, routes. I mean, this is a stupid question, but is anything disrupted? Okay. That's good. I don't see, I don't see anything disrupted. I see a weakened mayisa in some of the northwestern side of the country because of some of these arresturing the Vakonora raids. I see a weakened Mijisa, which means that there is a stronger Japisa and for letter organization. Right.

in the area. So that hasn't really, the needle hasn't moved mush on that end. Yeah. Well, at least, and it's moved towards in favor of the four letters and letcha pisa, I think. As long as they have good drug traffickers, like we were talking off camera, you were just up in Canada, giving a, you know, doing a lecture, knife training, talking to cops, whatever you do. whatever the fuck as you do

fire spinning the as long as they have good drug traffickers which are now mostly comprised of Americans and Canadians

right yeah gringos as long as they have those the organizations will always be fine yeah because they're the ones

that just move it for them they're the ones to just help them move it into the country and so so the difference

is now it used to it used to be that the government had a spooky man that lived in the hills in holisco that he could point to but now it's like but yeah but his son-in-law was in riverside living comfortably and the daughter was like had a like a chila keelis place yeah and wait a minute this isn't really the halisco cartel this is like the california cartel wait a minute they're all living wait what's what's cool so i think what we're

seeing is that this whole and this is something i've been talking about for years, this, this concept that Americans have of like, oh, these, these scary cartels out the hills in Mexico, that's bullshit. El Mayo learned all his tradecraft in LA by, from a Cuban CIA guy. And Elmantia learned most of his tradecraft in prison in, in, in Texas, I think.

No, California. You're right. Oh, in California. So, so, yeah, these are American-made, manufactured individuals at schools. And now a lot of these guys, thinking ahead, had their kids in the United States. And a lot of their impresa or their business is in the United States. I mean, whatever, like build the wall higher, you know,

build a wall downward so you avoid tunnels and all that shit. Do all of that. I think we're moving into the evolution of these organizations being very much, in bed and in in in in the united states proper they're already there you're seeing them now diversify and now you have Chinese interests mixing with

you know these other you know Mexican interests and yeah you're seeing the Hindus getting into it on the northern northern side big time those trashy Canadian Hindus they all own trucking companies and truckers if you own the trucking companies you make more money

than the boss practically. Because you fucking name your price. They just, these guys dispatch people. They have 30, 40, 50 truck drivers. Most of them know what's up, right? Or they have an idea that they're carrying dirty cargo, but they have deniability. And they'll just be like, oh, there's a, there's a truck waiting for you. There's a container in Colima.

And they'll drive from Brampton, Ontario, literally, all the way down to Manzanillo, Mexico, in Colima State and drive all the way back up. And it's usually getting through, dude. And so it's the guy, it's all logistics. Yeah. And you know one thing that really caught my eye when I was in Toronto? All the empty apartments. All right, everyone.

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No, it's a shit ton of empty apartments. It's the same thing everywhere where you go and there's a giant fucking drug market and or or like, you know, where else do you see a lot of these fucking empty apartment buildings, you know? Right. Vancouver, B.C. Wherever you have a lot of Chinese too. Yeah. That Tijuana.

Tijuana. That's right. That's right. A lot of those apartment buildings going up there, dude, they're empty. And people are like, wait a minute. How are they building all these? For who? And why aren't most of these empty? Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I don't know, I'll be it. Illicit money being parked long term. It's fine. I think the drug war is working.

I think cartels are their way out. I think we're about to achieve victory over all of these organizations. Higher ed. Higher ed for your conference. Scruff, McGruff, Chicago, Illinois, and all that shit. Yeah. What happened in Baja, what happened 30 state cops? just got arrested in Tijuana.

Oh, that's, that's, uh, I haven't really read into that that much. I've been asking around about it, but I imagine that it might have something to do with some of these major restaurants, but my G-sa and some of the people that they were basically out of the payroll. Yeah. I imagine that that's probably it. Mexicali specifically is the historic base of operations for state police. Ask me how I knew.

Ask me how I know. Uh, but, uh, that is. is usually where the nexus point happens between members of La Maiza and the Sina Loa cartel historically, that's where they people get pulled into the whole scheme. So that makes perfect sense. We just talked to a Maisa guy on this show and he's from Mexicali and it's all Misa there. It's there. It's there. When I was active, it was, you know, it was a Sina Loa enterprise. So you had people from all of that organization. But now it's fragmented because of the same organization is now fragmented. So there's it's a free for all there.

But this again, the federal government is seemingly moving with intention specifically against those mayos in that region. Right. And again, we could say that it's because they're being strategic and they're trying to eliminate this group first. and then the other one, or we can listen to El Gaffa, when he would talk about how they were basically working for the Cidolo Cartel, eliminating their enemies. But I don't know.

Like, I don't know what exactly is going on. I'm too disconnected, you know, too many head injuries. Yeah, you don't know anything, dude. I don't know anything. Higher ed. Well, buddy, it's been great to, it's been great to see you. It's thank you for dispelling some of this. myths you know as I said people get very angry when you you know you bring up something online

and they don't agree with it I think I think you are a comedian a very funny one and I love your commentary and I like what you're doing with it I think we need to more shit talking needs to be allowed I think yeah sometimes you make me nervous about some of the ways you talk shit who you talked you to. But I guess you... The hats, the hats, the little hats. I have no idea what you're referencing. But...

Just being silly, Ed. I'm just like all of the blessings and all the protections that my spiritual practices have towards you. Hopefully, nothing happens. Hopefully, we're all fine. And hopefully this is the end of the drug war and everybody's going to be healthy. And, you know, dude. Yeah. This is the end of all.

Wars. We're here. We're here. We're here, Jody. Hey, we're here. Guys, buy Bitcoin and hide. That's what I think, personally. Deep, deep, deep, high deep. Yeah, get some gold bars in there as well. Yeah, gold bars for sure. Get some cardio, stop smoking, learn nomadic lifestyles, get some training, get some guns. Yeah, I think, I mean, I'm a city kid, but I think, I think getting out of the cities to is probably recommended. Or what do you think? Do you think it's more sketchy in the rural areas? I don't know.

So do you want me to give you life, like some life advice for people out there with this current, yeah, stage of, uh, uh, uh,

uh, get, get, get more than one passport. It's pretty easy. I have three. Get more than one passport. What's your third one?

Don't worry about it. Fair. Get more, get more than one passport. figure out things of value versus things of symbolic value

so on my end I like property land and gold and some crypto I don't put all my eggs in that crypto basket but it's interesting

health is amazing you know what we'll fuck you up you can have all the crypto in the world and all that shit but all of a sudden man you're like holy shit

I can't fucking walk Yeah. No, so, dude, health is the most valuable thing in the world. Have friends all over the place. The world is friendly. You know, the governments are not flying to each other, but people are. I have expat community friends everywhere. And I'm not alone anywhere.

I have options. And finally, I think realizing that, you know, the whole, you know, time and space where it's going blow over. Yeah. This two shall pass. Turn that shit off. We're in for a ride. So this won't pass.

Fuck. No, this one. No, no. We're in one of those stages of history where like the dildos will come out, you know? Yes. The dildos will come out, dude. The dildo of consequence rarely comes lewd. And I think it's the dildo of consequence era.

Right. Right. Yeah, it's coming home to roost. The light will always, the light and what is right and good will always win out. But the demons, the God is in a battle with the demons right now. Sure.

You know. But Ed, if you fucking ever fall asleep around me, dude, know the dildos literally are coming out. So don't, don't sleep, dog. Anything is a dildo if you're brave enough? Any app is a dating app if you're Indian enough. And anything is edible once. I live by these rules.

So just let you know, I'll fall asleep whenever I want. Fair enough, dude. Well, um, follow, uh, manifest radio podcast. Follow ed's three Instagram accounts now. Sometimes they get, sometimes they get taken out my Instagram and they usually come back. But, uh, Ed's manifesto at Instagram. and then can plug the telegram group one more time. I want to check that out.

Rotten. MX. Rotten. MX. I'm sorry. I don't run it. We have people just putting stuff there. It's quite entertaining, though.

But yeah, you got to limit that shit. It's like porn, dude. It'll suck you in those fucking cartel assassination videos. Yeah. All right, you guys. the one, the only, my man, Ed Calderon, right here in The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.

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