As someone who was born and lives in culiacan i came in to see how wrong the explanation would be and its pretty accurate to say the least , it just bothers me so much how some people get upset over the fact that the goverment let him go ,as someone who was caught in the crossfire , i can say that everyone who says it was the wrong choice they weren’t caught un the middle of everything ,they didnt see cops get shot in front of their eyes ,all the screaming , the panic , so many civilians getting shot to because of missed shots, my car caught 3 bullets while i was driving just trying to figure out what was going on , after my car caught the first bullet my first instinct was to duck with my arm my friend who was at the passenger seat , and told him after the third bullet to just get out and run to the nearest grass and just stay low we had to wait 6 hours between cars , grass and all the bullets that where flying over , we got to the point where we felt no more fear , no more anxiety , we just gave one single look at each other and understood that it could go anyway , we waited and accepted that anything could happen and getting scared wouldnt help us at all.
@@Alfie223 they where obviously not aiming for us brother , but i cant see why i would make up such a story , it was a pretty bad day to say the least , trust me i wouldnt play with that🥲
@Toastcano718 Uh oh you fucking nerds better chill with the funny comments, if you dont the cool guy here will give all you nerds a swirly after class!!
I'm from Mexico and I confirm everything he said. Nothing to be proud of, but it is true that in some cities and states of the country it is part of the culture. There are even musicians who dedicate songs to narcos.
It’s not part of the Culture, the civilians have decided to accept it and are used to it , but hate it , that’s why Vigilante groups are formed , but there’s only so much they can do.
I went to an all boys catholic high school in san diego called Saints and what he said about sending cartel wives and children north of the border is absolutely true. The mexican kids in my class were super cool but they were richer and whiter than the white american kids which was a trip if you have never met that kind of mexican heritage
Truth to power. Ed is easily my favorite interview on JRE. You just don’t hear the minutiae of the crap that transpires on the local level. I’ve seen Ed on a new podcast he’s starting in Tijuana delving deeper into this stuff. I think one of his first interviews was with Conejo, a former cartel sicario
My best friend was traveling from Culiacán to Mazatlán that day. Her bus was stopped for about 7 hours while all this was happening cuz the city was basically being destroyed. I have seen videos of people trying to hide their kids under cars, running away trying to protect them. It's really sad. I am a proud Mexican but that shit is scary and people live in fear. It happens everywhere, not only in the North of Mexico. I lived in Veracruz for like 8 years and I saw things that I wish I never got to see. It's traumatizing, and the worst part is that we start seeing it as a "normal" thing just because it happens all the time. So sad, I hope I never have to go back to Mexico.
This guy needs to come back on, cartels shooting 50 cals at gunship helicopters while Chapo's son was being flown out was crazy, looked like a GTA 5 lobby.
Very true. Mexico is a sad case of extreme corruption. The whole world has been fucked by the puppet masters. We need to start coming together and pointing our fingers at the career politicians that are all rich.
Jason Rentaponga been going on since all of recorded history. but most of us are asleep and allow this control to continue. everything you see is tainted or control by them. evil world we’re in brother
Brah I’m from Culiacán and kno all dis shit. The U.S is even worse than us Mexicans 😂😂😂 y’all niggas be killing people for lands, oil, and other shi y’all worse than us!
the difference it's that in the US there isn't a fucking narco controlling a state or a city and your life does not depend on how a narco is doing in your country, there's corruption everywhere in the world but the difference it's that the US has at least the balls to fight anybody that does not respect the law and put them down. in Mexico, the military it's just a propaganda paid by the corrupt government. the US should stop training the Mexican military they are a bunch of pussies.
Toast & Soup so do all the corrupt politicians and most of the owners of main stream media but yet you pay attention to them like the little pussy sheep you are
I'm from Sinaloa, and I laughed. Back in 09 it was more common to see "la plebada" (the guys) referring to these hit men. So It was more like an average GTAO server back then lol.
No, you stop it by eliminating corruption. There are plenty of us who respect each other. That doesn't stop the few from slaughtering innocent lives. I live in Mexico City and have seen the devil first hand.
Almost everything this guy says is correct with the exception that they “stumbled” upon Ovidio. This was a Sinaloa State police / CEDENA (Mexican NG) operation that was backed by the US DEA and was compromised in July 2019. The very minute that CEDENA detained El Raton the compound he was in was surrounded by 50 cartel gunmen. Los Menores flew in via helicopter gunmen from 5 hours drive away the morning of the operation. There was a backup unit to support CEDENA, but they were cut off immediately due to the rapid response from Ivan Archivaldo’s men cutting off all access to the city. It’s true anybody who is anyone knows who not to mess with in Sinaloa. That’s why it wasn’t a mistake they “stumbled upon him.” This was an incredibly stupid and I’ll-conceived US DEA attempt to coerce the Mexican GOV into arresting El Raton, who btw, is third in line amongst Menores. I’m a former 1811 / Special Agent with the US DHS.
Well thanks for the clarification “Ricky”…btw I was an acquaintance of Jake Healy who ran “Operation Paisano” for ICE in Nogales. I spent 13 years working in Federal Law Enforcement in Southern AZ both for the USBP and as a Special Agent with a department within DHS and I was also my agencies liaison with the FBI’s JTTF. I’m sure you know more about this than me. I love guys like you. Feel free to respond when you have something more constructive to say. And btw it’s “Los Menores” not “Los Chapitos” as is reported in Western / American media.
Im Mexican,came to US at 10yrs of age,already 50 yrs old and I remember as a teen meeting kids of Sinaloans born here in the US ,already as kids being like Ed said with that cartel pedigree with their parents linked to cartels and drug distribution I just stayed away from all that 🙏
The drug trade is a business that never goes out of business. Just the players change but the game never stops…..Edit Ovidio got busted again earlier today in Culiacán.
Your exactly right. Its just a big circle chain. Only way to stop it is send in our military and completely eliminate both cartels so the Mexican Government can get ahold of there country. Not to mention root out the police that help the cartels. Should be a selection process too make it to be a officer or policeman however you want to put it but definitely rid out the suspious ones and only let the ones that definitely love their Country too help keep it safe. I hope we have sniper teams all along our borders to Mexico to eliminate all the mules that bring in all the drugs. We grow our own weed now keep yalls piss ass Reggie in yalls country. That is really what all Americans want and thats to make recreational weed in every state. They make huge profits off of it every year that could help our government get out of National Debt so we can have a balanced economy like we did in the seventies and eighties. Iam 39 and remember my parents living comfortable off 5 to 6 dollars a hour than they do now with everything from gas to grocery prices getting so bad most Americans are truly struggling. This epidemic with Covid has also brought our country down even worse than opiate epidemic. Whats next for the USA Hopefully something positive.
@John Doe they keep standards of living high by being completely bat shit crazy to non Yakuza criminals that try to commit crimes. There aren't a lot of petty criminals or street level individualistic terrorism.
Toastcano718 Literally Look Up when He Was “Caught” It’s in Spanish But The Cops Plead for him to Call off The “Desmadre” Or Basically to Tell his people to Stand down
As someone from Culiacán that experienced this shit show I went into this clip expecting them to be somewhat wrong or misinformed, but to my surprise Ed Calderon was really well informed and got everything right. I'm glad that there are people out there telling these stories like they actually went. Props!
Who cares. Sinaloa is a long way from the border. A wall ain’t going to affect them one bit. As shown in the El Chapo trial, most of the drugs is smuggled through legit points of entree.
Mexicans don't really say "orale carnal" that's more of an Americanized phrase used by Americans of distant Mexican heritage. Chicanos as they call themselves.
@@enriquenajarjr7492 in reality it’s really peaceful down here. As long as u do you and you let them do their work nothing will happen. This hasn’t happened again as of today. CDS is in well control of Sinaloa and mainly Culiacán. They don’t like to start shit with other cartels and government if u don’t mess with them or attack them. In reality I think Culiacán is way more peaceful than Chicago, cuz the criminals here take their business serious and don’t kill or rob for no reason. Then u look at other super violent cartels that rob and kill innocent people like CDN and CDG and sometimes CJNG in Tamaulipas and northern Mexico. That’s where people live in fear. This cartel is by for the most old school cartel that still has codes. Chapo and Mayo left their codes well engraved in their city.
as a Mexican living in Mexico, it really depends where you live. Luckily my family and friends live in a safer city, and I haven't seen a single cartel in my life. But up north it is very out of control.
@@kimmiey834 i dont know about the other guy but almost all the south zone its pretty safe, and many places in the center too, in fact there are some places in the south where you live safer than in any other city in the USA, but unfortunately the cartels may want to expand to the south in the future and probably end peace In the south
@@ksnjxkfkffkjfjfeldncbjs7174 Quintana Roo is not safe, at least the Cancun area, I remember I would hear murders and shootouts some time ago. Yucatan is pretty safe considering it's besides Quintana Roo.
I was stationed in San Diego in the Navy in the late Nineties and had two weeks off in January? and jumped down to Tijuana, I met a guy who sold motorcycles, I made a deal, $300 for two weeks, a 1972 Kawasaki 250, I said sure, I'll bring it back. We shook hands as gentlemen do. God I loved Mexico. I didn't have a plan, a route, I didn't speak a word of Spanish, I had a backpack with a sleeping bag, a .45 with a clip, no helmet, about $25 a day for expenses, and I roared off into the sunset. I'm a pretty conservative guy, from the South, and I was told to fear Mexican people, no, they were the nicest people on Earth. Now, in my mid 40s, I'd love to go back and ride coast to coast in Mexico, sleeping on the side of the road and sleeping in the local mayor's house and going to chicken fights and going to the local disco ball where there was ONE RECORD PLAYER, a pick up truck full of hot beer and a lot of friendly people. I'm so sad Mexico turned out like it did. I love Mexico, I really do.
I looked up this video since they just caught him again in 2023 and I may not know any details but to go from having to release him because they were outnumbered to now in 2023 being caught and not being released. Makes you think it was a trap, people snitching, and so much more. Just speculation but can't wait to find out how this went down
@Joseph Gutierrez how was he useless? In real life Felix Gallardo still controlled the plazas from jail until they transferred him to a maximum security prison he divided his territory and the rest became what it is today
Cesare Antonio there not regretting anything trust me they did it on purpose to crate chaos don’t trust everything you see especially American propaganda because the narco Sirius is from the DEA’s point of view they did it all from planing the death of there own agent they knew what would happen if the Guadalajara cartel would have been a unstoppable force that would have done more good then bad
Hey Jamie, can you put a time stamp of where you cut the clip? Sometimes I love watching these because I’m short on time but when I get interested in the podcast enough I’ll make a little bit more time for myself to watch the podcast or listen. It would make my life so much easier. Thank you
This guy is like the history he said is fun for him, I’m a Mexican and see how people Think this is cool that shit make me sick, I hope my country one day can make peace
Mexico is going to turn out like 1920's Russia with competing governments consisting of mobs eventually executing a coup detat. The cartels will overthrow the Mexican government and subdue the Mexican people under tyranny, it's only a matter of time. Intervention from more powerful nations would be needed to create peace in that country; Japan needed an ATOMIC BOMB dropped on its head TWICE before they relinquished power. This scenario has been played countless times in different nations throughout history. It also doesn't help that Spanish is a Romance language therefore being highly emotional and shaping the way a culture thinks (English and the other Germanic languages being more cold and relying on reason and logic which stifles emotion).
Its not that we idiolize them or wtv but when u from AMERICA and mostly when u black we literarly at the mercy of the police and gorverment and mexican and colombian killing these politician and police like it aint nothing the only think i hate about cartels is when they kill innocent people i think gangsters should only kill gangsters and politician aare gangster in suit n tie
@@ganjatrooper7193 not back then when they had the real DEA like kiki , Steve, and Javier they all took down the mosr face cartel the medellin cartel the Guadalajara cartel and the cali cartel
as a 20year old born and raised and living in mexico city, this is just so so sad, mexico is a country run by narcos, just 1 week ago a cartel tried to kill the head of the police and almost did, there need to be a change its just scary bro
Jaime Salazar oh shut the fuck up that’s the most American thing to say. Cartels are a product of America they supported them and funded them to destroy Latin America. Stay out of Mexico
Anakin .they pay them to fuck shit up in Latin America but to destroy there community and destabilize there government with constant unrest. Then paint Mexicans as bad people when they come to America for a better life. The sad truth it’s always the ones that want nothing to do with it that get hurt the most. They want the drugs to stay in Mexico. Not america
It wasn’t that the army couldn’t beat them, it’s just they didn’t believe he was worth the amount of innocent people that would have died because of his capture.
It's like people saying "he beat the Mexican army" already forgot how many civilian deaths(100,000+) Calderon's war caused even with Mexican marines laying waste to cartel members. It's just whack a mole as long as there is a billion dollar drug trade.
Well I’m still wrong but, because Mexico does not want America to handle their problem. Say what you want about Mexicans, but they are a prideful race. People look at them like they’re just beady-eyed short brown dudes, nah man, these guys are smart. And can fight.