“Cut The Head Off The Dragon” - El Mencho Death IGNITES Violence Across Mexico
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Summary
What's going on in Mexico and why is it so bad? We talk about the death of one of Mexico's most powerful drug kingpins, El Chapo, and a recording of him on a phone call with the police.
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First story that we want to get into is what's going on in Mexico.
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All of a sudden, I'm getting bombarded with literally, I mean, messages.
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So apparently, in Mexico, let me go to the story to read so it'll take us right into it.
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Mexico's most wanted drug dealer, El Mencho, killed in military operation as violent clashes erupt across the country.
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Mexico's most powerful drug kingpin was killed during a military operation.
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Mexican officials say criminal groups burn cars and trucks to block roads across the country.
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The State Department is warning Americans to shelter in place.
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Explosions erupting across Puerto Vallarta tonight.
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Black smoke seen rising over the resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast.
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Mexico's military forces launching a daring operation to capture cartel leader Ruben N, known as El Mencho.
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Mexican officials say during their operation, military personnel were attacked.
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Rob, do you have a video of people running out of airports?
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Just think about, guys, many of you have been to this airport before.
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I've been to this airport, I don't know how many times.
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Do you have some of the stuff outside where it's all on fire?
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I'll come to you first and then, Tom, I'm going to come to you as well on this.
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El Mencho, his name is Nemesio Oseguara Cervantes.
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He got arrested in the States, in America, I believe in the 90s, if I'm not mistaken,
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We have a lot of friends from Michoacan, but he was born in Michoacan.
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He's a leader of Jalisco's new generation cartel, CJNG.
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They rose in dominance in early 2000s when they broke away from the Mexican Sinaloa cartel,
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U.S. had a $10 million reward bounty for somebody that catches them.
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I think Mexico had a multimillion dollar bounty on catching them.
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And then they were known for the synthetic drugs like fentanyl and metamphetamine that
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they were selling, obviously a very profitable situation that they have going on there.
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By the way, for those of you that speak Spanish, I just want you to know he's cursing nonstop.
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So brace for impact, he's going to drop every single F-bomb in the world you can think about.
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But this is him calling, having a conversation, Rob, if I'm not mistaken, with cops, saying
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You can pause it right there, Rob, because we're learning Spanish and not the right word.
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Because they typically talk about the important part is if Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico,
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I mean, we just heard a phone call of the recently deceased head of this freaking cartel calling
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the head of their police department and saying, I give you guys money.
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You know, by the way, he said, I'll kill your dogs.
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I saw videos that were popping up on my ex-feed, Pat.
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These guys that you want to talk about ISIS and Hamas and all that, yeah, horrible as well.
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And they're like, in Spanish, they're like, okay, you ready?
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And they even had to shut the audio off because it's that bad.
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And it's kind of weird because now I'm tying in.
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El Paso shut down the airport because they said it was a balloon.
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I think it has something to do with these guys and flying drones around.
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Like, they designated, Trump designated them as terrorists.
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If the president of Mexico, Scheinblom, whatever her name is, she's scared of them and cooperating with them.
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We're not claiming that we did everything, but we did coordinate, I think, with logistics and stuff like that for location.
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And by the way, the number two is going to step up.
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But at the end of the day, I'm happy that they're starting to take this serious.
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The border is just an open turnstile that Mexico, with China as well, but Mexico mainly, is bringing in guns.
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So when everybody, because, you know, I guarantee you today you're going to hear on all these shows, all these leftists, they're going to be like, oh, we're starting a new war.
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Guys, they kill hundreds of thousands of Americans just with drugs alone.
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My cousin, Rumson, who was here last week, Pat, they were in Cabo a couple weeks ago for, a month ago for the wedding.
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I go, bro, they're putting out threats towards Americans.
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It was like, oh, my God, I have friends that are there or are planning on going there.
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The number two guy has already started and made a video saying, what's up?
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Tom, by the way, Tom's perspective here is probably very important for everybody to consider because the next 48 hours, anything could happen.
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So for all of us that are taking a look at this, we could talk about Trump and the FTO designation and all that went with it.
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We could talk about disruption to supply chain, tourism and all that.
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And the lesson here is if you cut the head off the dragon, you better be ready with plan B, who's going to step in behind it and to manage it.
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And when you take a look at Iran, that's what I think we need to be worried about.
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And perhaps that's why there's been this slow buildup of all the military and they're trying to get around to the table.
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Almost certainly there's been deaths of tourists down there.
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We just don't have reliable media or anybody that's down there to cover it.
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Again, Saddam Hussein was found in a hole with lice and the beard and he was just running for his life.
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That's the number of days to the World Cup event in Jalisco.
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I kept asking myself, why are they showing World Cup event in Jalisco?
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As an American, would you – as a president, you let Americans go – we're targets right now.
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And you're going to have two things in a power vacuum, Pat.
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A war among those who want to be number one, and then whoever steps up, he has to assert power.
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You're going to have two or three guys, Pat, that are fighting to be number one, even if there's a designated number two, because there's an opportunity here.
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And there have been alliances with the cartels.
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Then you're going to find out he has to do something ruthless, Kaiser Soce, to establish his power.
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By the way, if this continues, the FIFA president, he is not a joke.
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He will cancel the games in Jalisco and move it to a different place in no time.
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Imagine how many small business owners were relying on that game.
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Yeah, he will cancel and move it to a different place.
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Yeah, he will move it to a complete different place.
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He's the one that gave that award to the president having to do with peace.
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He gave some kind of an award, the FIFA Peace Award to the president in November 2025.
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It's going to be one of the 32 matchups, so it could be anybody.
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It could be anybody, a major Latin American power.
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You know, it's most likely going to be Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, some of those that could play there.
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Because I just saw, Rob, can you put that headline of the president, Scheinblom, whatever her name is, from Mexico?
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For the president to say using force against cartels would violate human rights.
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It's clear to anybody that's paying attention that she's obviously connected with them.
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What is the difference with her saying that and what that cop was saying to El Menchilom?
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We get involved with wars all around the world, you know, maybe Iran, Iraq, you name it.
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These people are touching our freaking Texas southern border.
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Do you think that this calls for something, and I can care less what anybody else thinks.
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Like, this is going to have to get, like, this isn't going to stop.
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Are you okay with surgical attacks, boots on the ground?
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You have to, guys, you have to get them out, root and stem.
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You can't just keep killing the head guy because, trust me, there's so many of them are going to step up.
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But, by the way, you know what that does is what you're saying right there.
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That's the, is this a time to intervene or not to intervene?
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So, but the part about, to the 100% isolationist mentality does not work.
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This is the part where, why Rubio is kind of going like this, and he's coming up to say, look, it depends.
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So, if we're neighbors and this is coming through to us, what do you want to do?
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Rob, maybe play this clip and then Adam, I'm coming to you.
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Regresar a la guerra contra el narco no es opciĂłn.
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Primero, porque está fuera del marco de la ley
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Todos estos de la derecha que se llenan la boca
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La guerra contra el narco está fuera de la ley
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Porque como lo dije o lo he dicho en varias ocasiones
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Y eso en México, nadie o muy poquitos están de acuerdo
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Y segundo, no sirvió de nada más que para aumentar los homicidios
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Do you feel safer for the people that live in Mexico
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I mean, because they're drugs and they're savages, they're maniacs
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Let's say we killed one of the head guys of the KKK
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They say the Mexican security forces are outgunned here
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The narcos outman and outgun the actual police and their military
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They attacked police squads and police buildings
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But I wonder, like, who is even thinking about right now