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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Do You Protect High Value Targets?
The main recruiting tool is tech talk for who's on tech talk now kids and the enticing aspect of that is the money. I was tasked to protect the the governor of Baja in his family so he had threats from all over not only him but his family. We got to experience some cross training with an SW Naval Naval Special Warfare people who were coming off protection details in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wasn't my field I was operational we were struggling with the acceptance that we were basically doing protection details in a war zone. The approach they take when protecting high value targets like celebrities or important politicians can be very dangerous. If you can buy a house for your mom or pay off some
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