Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels [Lex Fridman Podcast #346] 🔫

For over a decade Ed Calderon worked in the fields of counter narcotics, organized crime investigation, and public safety in the northern-border region of Mexico. During this period he also coordinated and worked executive protection details for high-level government officials and visiting dignitaries — often in some of the most dangerous parts of the country.

Ed Calderon's study in to the indigenous Méxican criminal culture, from occult practices to endemic modus operandi have lead him to be recognized as one of the worlds preeminent researchers and trainers in the field of personal security that have come out of Mexico. Ed has had the privilege of sharing his expertise with members of federal law enforcement agencies, Navy SEALS, Indonesian Kapaska , Mexican and United States intelligence service agents, and members of special forces groups from all over the world.

Currently, Ed travels North America doing security consulting and conducting seminars and private training courses in anti-abduction, escapology, unarmed combat, region specific executive protection work and unconventional edged weapons work. He is also a Chief Curriculum Advisor for Libre Fighting Systems and the Regional Director of Libre Fighting Systems in Mexico and a founding member of the Calidus Collective.

He is available for seminars, private training and consulting services.
If you are interested please send a message to: edsmanifesto@gmail.com

OUTLINE:
0:00 - Introduction
0:59 - Corruption
34:41 - Cartels
50:02 - El Chapo
1:07:13 - Weapons
1:19:19 - Assassinations
1:28:05 - Counter-ambush teams
1:51:32 - PTSD and alcohol
2:14:11 - Improvised weapons
2:17:43 - Street fights
2:46:40 - Kidnapping
2:50:56 - Escaping restraints
3:00:24 - Imitation
3:08:52 - Narco cults
3:21:47 - Adolfo Constanzo
3:26:15 - Fentanyl
3:42:59 - Immigration
3:54:19 - Advice for young people
4:02:52 - Mortality

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