Valuetainment - December 04, 2020


Cartel Corruption Explained by Mexican Crime Expert - Ed Calderon

Hosted by
Patrick Bet-David
Mentioned
Sinaloa Cartel
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

232.54

Word count

283

Sentence count

31


Summary

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In this episode, we talk to a former Mexican police officer who left the force in order to pursue a career in the drug trade. He talks about his experience working for one of the most powerful cartels in Mexico, the New Generation Cartel, and the Sinaloa Cartel.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Didn't have a lot of choice. You know, somebody in their early 20s, there's only a few choices.
00:00:04.340 One of them is going in to work for the cartels and the other one was going to work for the
00:00:07.800 government. Now, were you ever recruited? Did you ever get the opportunity to go work for the
00:00:11.280 cartel or no? I opted out and went for that police career. I always tell people that I'm
00:00:15.860 a cautionary tale more than anything. So what happens if you say, no, I just want to be straight?
00:00:21.300 What do they do to you? Are you all of a sudden ousted and not trusted? You're ostracized. There
00:00:26.400 are basically small factions within a police group like that. Some of them work for one cartel.
00:00:31.260 Some of them work for the other. Sometimes you're just working and you're actually involved in some
00:00:35.720 sort of interest that is way beyond your pay grade. And you don't even know about it, meaning you don't
00:00:40.140 know you're part of it. You don't know you're part of it. Military, police or cartel? Who has more
00:00:45.260 power? Mexico doesn't have a single cartel. It has many. New Generation Cartel, one of the biggest and
00:00:50.500 growing cartels out there. Sinaloa Cartel, which are rivals of them. How has the cartel made money
00:00:55.980 during COVID? Drugs, of course, you know, human trafficking. And each of these cartels will pay
00:01:01.400 for participation in what they do to different groups. You know, you don't know who to trust.
00:01:06.180 So it's hopeless. And it's a powerful word for you to say hopeless. That's why I left that job.
00:01:10.360 If you go into somebody's pocket, you're not climbing out.