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#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Think You'd Be Good at What You Do?
There's many trajectories possible in your life where you could have been still operating in a criminal organization in Mexico. Do you think you'd be good at it? I don't know. Some of the people that I used to work with were way better out of than I am are in the wind. The youth is what gets eaten by this war and that's one of the main things that they start with just the youth. These cartel groups on them opportunities to go through the family businesses to kind of establish themselves use some of those businesses for storage or figure out how to use some of their transportation businesses for drug mewling. They get into paid protection type schemes which are also common all
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