Valuetainment - “Wipe Them Out” - Trump’s War With Mexican Cartel

00:00:00.000 How much influence do you think the Mexican cartels have in the city you currently live in?

00:00:03.920 I'm going to show you the map for you to learn more about it.

00:00:06.360 You will be shell-shocked.

00:00:07.340 But before I do so, earlier this year, the president came out with Tom Holman.

00:00:11.220 They qualified the Mexican cartels as an FTO, which is a foreign terrorist organization.

00:00:16.220 It is going to wipe you off the face of the earth.

00:00:18.680 You're done.

00:00:19.700 Qualified.

00:00:20.440 Tom Holman says in multiple interviews, President Trump will wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:00:25.860 Just like he did ISIS in the caliphate. 0.86

00:00:27.480 We're not just going to attack in Mexico, the Jalisco cartel.

00:00:30.700 We're going to attack them in the 43 countries they have operations in. 0.85

00:00:34.360 We are attacking them worldwide.

00:00:36.840 And it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing.

00:00:41.180 This is from the Drug Enforcement Administration showing where they're at.

00:00:44.840 These are areas where the major Mexican transnational and criminal organizations have influence in.

00:00:49.720 Look at this map.

00:00:50.620 Atlanta, Jackson, Gulfport, Galveston.

00:00:53.780 You got Houston, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Oklahoma City.

00:00:57.240 Lubbock, Sacramento, Modesto.

00:00:58.740 They're all over the place.

00:00:59.920 But when you look at this, you're like, where are they kind of leaving North Dakota and South Dakota alone?

00:01:03.520 Look at this one here.

00:01:04.740 They are coming to a city near you.

00:01:08.560 They are officially everywhere.

00:01:10.420 But you need to know about the history of what's happened here.

00:01:13.560 This is a very important chart I'm going to share with you before we get into this episode.

00:01:16.820 You ready?

00:01:17.080 When it comes down to five drugs, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, fentanyl.

00:01:20.960 In the 80s, when you look at the estimated drug smuggling from Mexico to the U.S. by decade, by tons.

00:01:28.880 How many tons they move?

00:01:30.120 Look at that right there.

00:01:31.100 Cocaine, 50 to 80 tons per year.

00:01:33.300 Marijuana, 1,500 to 2,000.

00:01:35.480 Heroin, 5 to 10 tons.

00:01:37.480 Meth, less than a ton.

00:01:38.820 Fentanyl, zero.

00:01:40.060 90s.

00:01:40.840 Cocaine goes up a little bit.

00:01:42.340 Marijuana goes up to 2,500.

00:01:44.400 Heroin, 2Xs.

00:01:45.920 Meth, 5Xs.

00:01:47.340 Fentanyl, flat.

00:01:48.200 Nothing.

00:01:48.600 2,000 to 2,005.

00:01:50.160 Cocaine gets all the way up to 150 tons.

00:01:52.420 Marijuana goes to 3,000 tons.

00:01:54.120 Heroin is 20 to 30.

00:01:55.680 Meth is 10 to 20 tons.

00:01:57.080 20 years ago, fentanyl was zero.

00:01:58.940 Literally nothing coming to the States just 20 years ago.

00:02:01.600 Then 2006 to 2010, cocaine goes all the way up to 200 tons.

00:02:05.180 Marijuana goes lower.

00:02:07.160 Heroin is 30 to 40.

00:02:08.800 Meth goes 20 to 40.

00:02:09.940 And then all of a sudden, you see a little bit of fentanyl, but less than a ton.

00:02:13.620 2011 to 2015, cocaine drops.

00:02:16.300 Marijuana drops.

00:02:17.260 Heroin goes up a little bit.

00:02:18.700 Meth goes up a little bit.

00:02:19.800 And then next thing you know, fentanyl, 10Xs.

00:02:23.280 2006 to 2020, cocaine goes up a little bit.

00:02:26.320 Marijuana drops again.

00:02:27.580 Heroin goes up a little bit.

00:02:28.940 Meth goes up.

00:02:29.740 And then fentanyl goes up 50%.

00:02:31.740 And now 2021 to 2025, cocaine stays the same.

00:02:35.900 Marijuana is the lowest it's ever been.

00:02:39.200 Heroin drops.

00:02:40.600 Meth goes up.

00:02:41.800 And fentanyl is 12 to 18.

00:02:44.360 Tons every year coming to a city near you.

00:02:48.700 I have so much data I want to share with you about the Mexican cartel.

00:02:52.220 We're going to talk about that today.

00:02:53.660 If you give value out of this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel.

00:03:04.840 Okay, so first, when you think about this business, let's look at how much money these

00:03:09.240 guys are making.

00:03:09.820 I mean, how much money is fentanyl making these guys in 2025?

00:03:14.660 Estimated annual revenue just from us as a customer.

00:03:18.140 You ready?

00:03:18.460 30, 40 to 60 billion in one year.

00:03:22.680 Cocaine is 25 to 35 billion.

00:03:24.820 Meth is 20 to 30 billion.

00:03:26.640 Heroin is 10 to 15 billion.

00:03:28.460 And marijuana is officially less than 5 billion.

00:03:30.560 But we need to know the history.

00:03:31.860 Were they always this big?

00:03:32.980 Were they always this powerful?

00:03:34.300 Did they break apart?

00:03:35.360 Did something happen?

00:03:36.280 When we think about these types of things, who do we think about?

00:03:38.560 We think about Colombia.

00:03:39.400 We think about Pablo Escobar.

00:03:40.880 We think about different types of names.

00:03:42.360 Watch this.

00:03:42.840 In the 80s, Mexican cartel by size, by different era.

00:03:46.780 In the 80s, it was roughly 5,000 to 10,000 members total.

00:03:50.160 And it was mostly the Guadalajara cartel.

00:03:52.520 At the time, under Miguel Angel, Felix Gallardo, cartels worked under one umbrella to traffic

00:03:58.880 cocaine for Colombian cartels.

00:04:00.860 So they were the ones that were coming to buy from Colombian cartels.

00:04:04.640 And then they're distributing.

00:04:05.680 80s, small little shop, nothing crazy.

00:04:07.760 90s, they go to 10 to 20,000.

00:04:09.680 They 2X.

00:04:10.360 Guadalajara cartel splits into Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Juarez cartels.

00:04:15.100 Start of the turf wars, rise of the plaza systems, and alliances with Colombian suppliers.

00:04:21.020 So now, instead of just distributing, now I'm dealing with suppliers.

00:04:23.860 Hey, man, we want a little bit more.

00:04:24.940 That's 90s.

00:04:25.520 Still nothing crazy.

00:04:27.040 2000s.

00:04:27.840 2000 to 2006.

00:04:29.480 They go from 10 to 20 to 30 to 50,000 members across six to eight major cartels.

00:04:35.520 This is when they started attracting special forces called the Los Zetas.

00:04:40.540 Ex-special forces guys joined them.

00:04:43.200 Militarization of cartels, expansion of controls over municipalities and police.

00:04:47.780 Now they have power because now they have protection.

00:04:50.640 Next phase, 2006 to 2012.

00:04:52.900 They go from 30 to 50 to 100,000 plus, including sicarios, informants, and low-level operatives.

00:04:58.940 Now they're becoming a little bit of a military, almost like running like a country.

00:05:02.660 Calderon's drug war begins, Mexico military deployed, extreme fragmentation begins, cartels

00:05:09.000 diversify into oil theft, extortion, and kidnapping.

00:05:12.680 Next level stuff, not just drugs.

00:05:14.440 Now we come to 2012 to 2018.

00:05:16.880 Now they're at 120,000 to 150,000.

00:05:19.320 Cartels splinter further, Knights Templar, CJNG rises, Sinaloa begins to decentralize under

00:05:25.980 El Chapo's arrest, and then CJNG rapidly grows. 0.60

00:05:29.880 And so since 2018 till today, they're relatively the same size, maybe increased a little bit

00:05:35.360 more by 10,000, 20,000, but they're about the same size.

00:05:38.340 So from 2018 till today, you know how much power these guys have now?

00:05:41.100 You ready?

00:05:41.640 They influence 35% of all of Mexico.

00:05:45.940 Let me say it one more time.

00:05:47.120 They have influence over 35% of the entire country of Mexico today.

00:05:53.860 That's how powerful they are today.

00:05:55.980 Now why is it so important?

00:05:56.940 Why is it so important where the president, Tom Holman, they're going to wipe off the Mexico? 0.93

00:06:01.140 Why is it so important?

00:06:01.960 You know why?

00:06:02.460 Because when you look at charts from CDC on how many people die from overdose drugs in

00:06:07.780 2022, let's just say, because that's the chart that we can find.

00:06:10.420 In 2022, 107,941 people died from overdose that year.

00:06:16.140 Of the 107, do you know how many it was just fentanyl?

00:06:19.120 73,654.

00:06:20.960 Nearly 70% of anyone in America that died from overdose died from one drug, fentanyl.

00:06:28.340 That's unbelievable.

00:06:29.360 And then when you look at the chart on where it was before, non-existent in 2000, non-existent

00:06:34.340 in 2005, non-existent in 2010, pretty much non-existent to 2013.

00:06:39.580 And then look at the spike on what happened to it.

00:06:41.760 You know how long ago this is?

00:06:42.900 12 years ago.

00:06:43.960 You know how many people around me tell stories about fentanyl, that they lost somebody?

00:06:46.660 A lot of people, a lot of people, and this is what they're trying to stop from getting

00:06:52.140 in our country.

00:06:54.280 So now, let's continue.

00:06:55.620 The next question is, who are they recruiting?

00:06:57.280 You ready?

00:06:57.800 You want to know who they're recruiting?

00:06:59.380 Americans.

00:07:00.180 What?

00:07:00.520 They're not recruiting Americans. 0.56

00:07:01.480 They're recruiting Americans. 0.98

00:07:02.540 There is no way in the world.

00:07:03.360 Let me give you some stats.

00:07:04.260 So, recruitment and exploitation, use of American citizens, the number of Americans arrested

00:07:09.140 in Mexico for organized crime-related offenses, the number of Americans, Americans, if

00:07:15.340 you're watching this, you're an American, Americans arrested in Mexico for organized

00:07:18.960 crime-related offenses increased by 457% from 2018 to 2024, presidency of Andres Manuel

00:07:25.420 Lopez Obrador, compared to his predecessor.

00:07:28.300 Stay with me here.

00:07:29.720 185 U.S. citizens have been arrested by Mexican army on organized crime charges since President

00:07:34.760 Claudia Scheinbaum took office in September of 2024, averaging three arrests per day.

00:07:38.980 That is insane.

00:07:40.240 You ready for this next one?

00:07:41.220 During AMLO, which is Andres Manuel presidency, 2,500 Americans were arrested for crimes such

00:07:47.560 as drug trafficking in Mexico, compared to a prior tour, only 449.

00:07:52.000 It's 5X-ing in two different presidents.

00:07:54.420 Out of nearly 4,000 foreigners arrested for organized crime offenses in the last six years,

00:08:00.320 more than two-thirds were Americans.

00:08:03.080 In Mexico!

00:08:04.520 Did you?

00:08:04.980 In Mexico, two-thirds of the 4,000 arrests related to drugs, two-thirds, 66% are Americans

00:08:13.220 in Mexico.

00:08:14.540 Now, you may ask, what are Americans being recruited for?

00:08:16.580 They're being recruited for being sicarios, gunmen?

00:08:18.820 No.

00:08:19.140 They're being recruited and used for purchasing and transporting cartel-related goods.

00:08:24.780 Some of the cartels that are recruiting these Americans, they're doing it because these guys

00:08:28.540 are drug users that become indebted and are forced into trafficking.

00:08:31.600 Out of desperation, they're recruiting these guys.

00:08:33.600 And remember, the president's only been a president roughly for four months, a little

00:08:36.380 less than four months.

00:08:37.240 He threatened a 25% tariff on Mexican and Canadian goods due to illegal immigration drug-related

00:08:41.300 concerns, but paused it for Mexico after Mexico deployed 10,000 National Guard troops

00:08:46.500 to the U.S.-Mexico border.

00:08:49.020 Another thing these cartels are tied to is kidnapping and murder.

00:08:51.940 So watch this.

00:08:52.740 Cartel-related violence has directly affected U.S. citizens between 2022 and 2023.

00:08:57.320 Over 700 Americans were reported missing or disappeared in Mexico, and 307 were murdered, notably

00:09:02.760 in March of 2023.

00:09:04.120 Four Americans were kidnapped in Matamoros, Mexico.

00:09:06.780 Two were killed and two survived the ordeal.

00:09:08.880 Americans are also heavily involved in human smuggling.

00:09:11.680 Between July 2021 and August 2024, over 1,000 U.S. citizens were arrested in Texas for people

00:09:18.180 smuggling, making up more than 70% of those arrested for the crime.

00:09:22.960 A couple other things that these guys are into is financial exploitation.

00:09:25.820 Look what they're doing here. 0.88

00:09:26.600 Beyond drug trafficking, cartels have diversified into financial crimes, including timeshare

00:09:31.440 fraud schemes targeting Americans.

00:09:33.200 These schemes have defrauded American victims of over $300 million, according to the FBI.

00:09:39.060 This next one may be the craziest one out of everything I've read here, and I've already

00:09:41.720 read a lot of crazy stats.

00:09:42.800 You ready?

00:09:43.380 According to the CDC, they estimate that the opioid overdoses cost the U.S. economy nearly

00:09:48.320 $1 trillion annually in lost productivity, healthcare expenses, and law enforcement efforts.

00:09:55.420 It's $1 trillion just because of this.

00:09:57.820 $1 trillion.

00:09:58.540 Another business model they have on how they make money is human smuggling.

00:10:01.180 People that want to come to America, cartels help them.

00:10:03.200 They're making billions of dollars of profits.

00:10:05.080 They charge an average migrant $5,000 to $10,000 to smuggle them over to America. 0.61

00:10:09.900 Remember the 80s, we would watch mob movies and somebody would come in and say, hey, moving

00:10:13.260 forward, you're going to pay me 20% taxes on everything that you're making.

00:10:16.120 I'm, you know, I'm with the Colombo family, I'm the Gambino family.

00:10:18.860 They're doing the same exact thing, extortion and thrust to U.S. business owners.

00:10:21.900 Cartels have extended extortion rackets into the U.S., targeting truck companies.

00:10:25.420 Agriculture businesses and nightclubs in California, Central Valley, carteling gangs have infiltrated

00:10:30.040 the avocado and cannabis industries, leading to violent turf wars and property destruction.

00:10:35.000 Think about that.

00:10:36.020 In America today, so let me tell you one of the benefits of qualifying the Mexican cartel

00:10:40.080 as an FTO, foreign terrorist organization, is now the FBI, the DEA, the DHS, everybody

00:10:45.900 is now going after them.

00:10:47.100 And on top of that, if you as an American are working with a terrorist organization, meaning

00:10:52.360 the cartel is the equivalent of Al Qaeda.

00:10:54.860 If you're working with them, whatever your punishment would be on a regular thing of dealing

00:10:58.860 with an American, even if you're selling cocaine, working for an American.

00:11:01.740 But if you're dealing with them selling fentanyl for the cartels, as an American, your punishment

00:11:07.980 is much more severe because it's as if you're working with Al Qaeda.

00:11:12.820 That's what that means.

00:11:13.780 So the question comes now, what do you do about this?

00:11:16.800 The president, Tom Homan, we're going to wipe them off the face of the earth.

00:11:20.360 You better do it now.

00:11:21.340 It reminds me of China.

00:11:22.720 If we let these guys get bigger and bigger and bigger, that 40 to 60 billion, the 35 billion,

00:11:28.280 the 20 to 30 billion, all of a sudden they're going to get more creative, have better military.

00:11:32.560 They've gone from 5,000 to 160,000 people now.

00:11:35.360 They're going to realize they need better military equipment right now.

00:11:37.780 All they got is AK-47s, M4s, RPGs, a couple armored vehicles.

00:11:41.420 They don't have what we have.

00:11:42.540 If they have influence over 35% of Mexico, we need to get a way to knock them out now, not 0.98

00:11:48.080 later.

00:11:48.380 There's an example that needs to be made for them to realize this is not the place to mess

00:11:51.860 around with specifically America.

00:11:53.420 CNN is interviewing one of the Senegal members.

00:11:55.860 He says, oh, what do you think about the fact that the president and they're doing what

00:11:58.380 they're doing?

00:11:58.740 Is it impacting your business?

00:11:59.900 No, I actually respect what he's doing.

00:12:01.140 What would you say to him if he was watching this?

00:12:02.660 I respect what he's doing.

00:12:03.740 I understand his priorities to protect this country.

00:12:06.280 But the problem is the consumers.

00:12:09.100 They keep consuming our products.

00:12:10.500 Problem is consumers.

00:12:11.500 They keep consuming our products.

00:12:12.520 So because they keep consuming our product, this is why we're making, you know, a couple hundred

00:12:15.780 billion dollars or whatever kind of money they're making.

00:12:17.440 I love what they're doing.

00:12:18.740 I hope the president, Tom Homan and others go even stronger, but they need an example.

00:12:24.380 The example needs to be bigger and bigger and bigger and a public one similar to what

00:12:28.640 happened in the 80s when a mob was eventually put to rest in New York because 245 people

00:12:34.720 went like this.

00:12:35.700 There needs to be a massive example being made for them to realize you cannot be doing this.

00:12:41.120 And not only you cannot be doing this, you cannot be doing this where?

00:12:43.660 Here, here, here, cannot be doing it here.

00:12:47.000 Get out as soon as possible before havoc.

00:12:51.480 So I'm supportive.

00:12:53.980 But the one thing I wanted to do this video with where Brandon brought up and the team

00:12:57.300 brought up is we wanted to make you aware of what is going on in a city near you.

00:13:03.400 This isn't just Mexico and how they're recruiting Americans to go work for them and help them

00:13:08.560 out.

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00:13:11.800 And if you want to learn more about content like this, you've never seen the fentanyl epidemic

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00:13:18.260 It's an incredible video.

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00:13:20.520 Take care, everybody.

00:13:21.340 Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - May 26, 2025

“Wipe Them Out” - Trump’s War With Mexican Cartel

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