🚨↘️ Sign up for the VE Newsletter ↙️🚨 https://www.vigilanceelite.com/newsletter In this episode of The Shawn Ryan Show, former Navy SEAL/CIA Contractor Shawn Ryan sits down with Ed Calderon. For over a decade Ed Calderon worked in the fields of counter narcotics, organized crime investigation, in the northern-border region of Mexico. He is a considered to be one of the top experts in the operations and tactics of the Mexican Drug Cartels and Narcos. Shawn and Ed discuss everything from Ed's personal experiences fighting cartels face to face and the mental and physical scars it has left behind forever, to why China is involving themselves in cartel operations deep in Mexico to how the Cartels are effectively utilizing American street gangs to push more drugs into the United States. Leave us a review on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shawn-ryan-show/id1492492083 You can find/follow Ed on the links below: Website - https://www.edsmanifesto.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/edsmanifesto #VIGILANCEELITE #SHAWNRYANSHOW Vigilance Elite/Shawn Ryan Links: Website - https://www.vigilanceelite.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryan762 - https://www.instagram.com/vigilanceelite - https://www.instagram.com/shawnryanshow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/shawnryan762 - https://www.facebook.com/VigilanceElite - https://www.facebook.com/shawnryanshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/VigilanceElite Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-ryan-84b97314a Chapters: 00:00 - Episode Start 4:40 - Welcome To SRS 11:39 - Ed’s Manifesto 14:00 - 15 Year Old Fernando 21:30 - Tijuana 33:22 - The Job Gets Real 49:52 - Cupula Shootout 1:06:40 - Silver Or Lead 1:14:34 - Cartel Structure 1:35:06 - Cartel / China Relations 1:45:05 - Fentanyl 2:08:37 - California 2:18:52 - Columbian Influence 2:31:12 - Assassin Rituals 2:39:27 - PTSD 2:56:49 - Warrior Therapy Throughout History 3:09:15 - Fever Dreams 3:26:46 - How Do We Stop Cartels