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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Lex Fridman Podcast
Spirituality in Mexico
There's a cartel head somewhere in central Mexico as well. El Masloko was his nickname. And he basically forced the citizenship around him to turn him into a saint. So he made a statue of himself. He died two times. One time the government declared him that he was killing the shoot out and turns out he wasn't dead. When he was really dead, some of his people and his loyal followers were like gunpoint kind of still forced to go and give flowers and venerate this species. It's a powerful weapon. Spirituality in Mexico is apowerful weapon. But as far as that being used to control populace and stuff like that.
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