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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In a six here at fifty five kr CD talk station.
Always love this time of the weekend the fifty five
CASC Morning Show. It's time to get what we call
the inside scoop with bright Bart News. And as I
always start out the segment, bookmark this site. You'd be
glad you did. I rely on it every single day
for the morning show. Outstanding reporting br e t bart
dot com where you're gonna read some of the stuff

(00:21):
that Brandon Darby rights. Brandon Darby's been with bright Bart
since twenty ten and he focuses on human trafficking and
cartel violence down at our southern border and involved with
a project along with some other folks called the Cartel Chronicles,
which allows well residents of Mexico citizen journalists that are
anonymous to speak out about the reality of what's going on.

(00:42):
Why do they have to be anonymous because the cartels
will kill you, like they have so many people and
politicians anybody else that dare speak out against them. Brandon Darby,
Welcome to the Morning Show. It's a real pleasure to
have you on today. You're doing an empower youth seminar
that's a log in from home convenience seminar for my listeners,
Empower You America begins at seven pm. It's good to
have you on the program, and congratulations on the great

(01:05):
work you've done. I guess you pissed off a lot
of Cartel members.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Brandon, Yes, thank you for having me on. I'm glad
to be here, very happy to be here having my coffee.
I'm in Texas right now, so we're about an hour
behind you having coffee, and just very happy to be
here to share with your listeners what's going on. And yeah,

(01:28):
we're having an empower You seminar tonight at seven pm,
and we are going to talk about how our project started,
what our project does, and our project as a model
for ways of dealing with problems in the world or

(01:48):
in our country that seem insurmountable. Because that's what we've done,
is we've taken on a group of people who routinely
kill journalists, kill everyone who challenged there, and we found
a way to successfully challenge them and get Americans caring
about this issue, caring about them, and now they're having

(02:09):
a very difficult time operating because of the fact that
they're getting exposed.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, I guess I'm kind of curious to know. Listen,
I've been hearing about cartels in Mexico for a long
time now, most notably back in let's say, when I
was in high school in the eighties and nineties. You
heard about the cartels in South America. Columbia for example,
immediately comes to mind. We got some big names in
the cartel world have come up. But is this a

(02:37):
more recent phenomenon of these cartels in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Well, the basic gist of it is that when there
was always a cartel in Mexico, right, there was one
specific large cartel, And what basically happened was the US
when after cartels in Columbia, and so the Columbia and said, hey,
we don't really want to fight with the US government

(03:04):
any longer. And then this cartel in Mexico said, hey,
why don't you just sell us the cocaine and we'll
be the ones getting it into the United States. We'll
take the risk, we'll take the heat, but will take
a lot of the profits. So the club being said, Okay,
that sounds great. So in the process of that, the
one major cartel in Mexico got really out of hand,

(03:27):
killed a usde agent and Kiki Camerin and tortured him ruthlessly,
and the US went after that cartel. That cartel decentralized,
and once it decentralized, all of those factions started to
fight each other basically, and here we are today. So
it's been a huge mess. But that's the important thing

(03:48):
for people to know. And I'm sure a lot of
listeners do know this or had heard it, but many
facets in Mexico's government are controlled by these cartels, and
that poses a pretty significant problem for US security because
you have our neighbor to the south where their government

(04:10):
is primarily controlled by these paramilitary, transnational criminal organizations that
we call cartels, and that poses unique challenges to our
security and our safety. And not to mention just what
it does to our loved ones who struggle with addictions
and what have you, but just overall, it poses some

(04:32):
major problems for US. It poses major security threats. When
you look at China constantly trying to influence that government
in Mexico and have relationships with these transnational criminal organizations.
You know, China's constantly getting these major infrastructure contracts in Mexico.

(04:53):
China is competing with US for influence in Mexico. That's
a problem for us, right.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I assume that also involves China working with the cartels
who apparently are largely in charge. I think of the politicians,
members of law enforcement, judges, they can't. If I was
in their position, I'd be scared, live in daylight to
be scared. I'd be all the time. To the extent
I want to do something to make my neighborhood better,
I want to go after the law. I want to
engage in law enforcement, go after these cartels and prosecute them,

(05:22):
convict them, whatever I can do. But the minute I
raise a voice along those lines, I'm next on the
hit list, right.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
That's right? And their families get murdered. There's a segment
and they say plateo, oor plomo, and as do you
want silver or do you want lead? We can make
you rich or we can kill you and all of
your loved ones and some most people choose to just
accept the money and do what the various cartels and
the reason want them to do. We found a very
unique formula, like a recipe for really sticking to these

(05:55):
cartels that's worked, And what we realized is that these
cartels don't want attention. And if people begin to shower attention,
shower attention upon them, what happens is the US gets upset,
then Mexico gets embarrassed, and then Mexico starts trying to
address them, right, Mexico starts singing in the military and

(06:19):
what have you. So what we've done is systematically go
after various partel leaders, publish their photos, show who they
really are and what they're doing, and then that ultimately
leads to their capture or at least to their death.
And you know, obviously there's a lot of work to do,

(06:39):
but a lot of work has been done. There's a
lot of cartel bosses who are in US custody now
who would not have been without our reporting, and there's
a lot who are dead who would not have been
without our reporting. And we're very proud of that this recipe,
because people in Mexico really can't speak out against them
openly without getting murdered. But what we found we took

(07:01):
a gamble and we thought, okay, we're US journalists, were
connected right where Breitbart, and we think that these guys
are not going to want the heat of killing us.
We think that we will get away with saying what
we want to say where people in Mexico can't, and
it turns out so far, god forbid, you know that changes.

(07:24):
But so far they have not killed me. So it's
been very successful. And you know, a lot of news
outlets probably would want to do that, but their insurance
won't let them, or their bosses won't let them because
of the risk involved. But thankfully we worked for Breitbart,
and Breitbart is used to walking toward the fire, and
Breitbart's used to taking these bold chances, and they allowed

(07:47):
us to do that.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Oh, Brandon, without question. And I have to give Breitbart
all the props in the world for being one of
the first, if not the first, to bring the open
border reality to everyone's attention. You were there, You were
on the border. Account of other places, you witnessed, you videoed,
you photographed, you interview the influx of humanity. It just
was overwhelming and everyone meanwhile, I was trying to deny
that that was happening. Oh, there's nothing going on down there,

(08:10):
but he's log in Brightberry like, Nope, there it is
right there. I can see with my own eyes and
read with my own eyes. I mean, it's you're a
powerful force out there, and I guess, I guess how
is this going to help the Mexican government? I our being,
I'm wondering, is this going to turn into like a
Venezuela situation because we're moving more and more military hardware
into Venezuela, obviously an epicenter of fentanyl and a lot

(08:33):
of other drugs that are flowing out. But is this
the direction we're going with Mexico or our relations with
the Mexican government decent enough that we can actually effectuate
working with them to bring about some change and get
rid of these guys.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Well, okay, So, so in Mexico everything is for sale.
It is true that bad guys, to put it simply right,
bad guys can can buy their freedom. Then bad guys
can buy their way out of trouble. But it is
also true that good guys can buy trouble for the

(09:08):
bad guys. Right. It just depends on who's the highest bidder,
And that's where I think the US goes with this.
You have to remember Mexico is full of a lot
of good people, like most places in the world, and
there are a lot of good people in Mexico who
want to see change, you know, Mexico is listed as
not a failed state, but a fragile state, meaning that

(09:31):
it's teetering. It's teetering. You know. They have thirty two
states in Mexico, and out of the thirty two states,
more than half of them are actually under the physical
control of these transnational criminal organizations. So the central government
doesn't even have control over its territory. Right. These cartels do.

(09:54):
Various cartels do, and people need to understand that. Like
in the US, we can call nine one one if
there's a bad guy somewhere, then ultimately the US marshals
or the FBI or the DEA or can go and
get this bad guy. But in Mexico, when there's a
bad guy they want to get in over half of
their states, they can't just send a few agents to

(10:15):
go and arrest them. They have to send in their marines.
They have to send in armored divisions to go and
get these bad guys because they have heavy weaponry. They
have drones, they have Russian made RPGs, they have uh,
you know, surface to air missiles. In some cases, these
are little, little little militaries within a greater country. So

(10:38):
realizing all of that, you just have to go okay.
There are people that the who the US can work
with in Mexico, in Mexico's government to get things done
and to get bad guys. But usually when it's done,
it's done without the knowledge of the you know, the
overall government, right it's done with with people. It's usually

(10:59):
through the intel.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Me back channel communication, government backchannel communications right right now.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
But not the government as a whole, because the government
as a whole, even its current Secretary of Defense in Mexico,
is heavily connected to one particular cartel boss or no minshaw.
And so what do you do in that situation? What
you do is you work with you know, you don't
really need US troops on the ground or boots on

(11:26):
the ground. You just work with people in Mexico who
who want to work with you, and you do it around,
you know, behind the back of other people in Mexico.
So that's what's going on. That's where this goes in Mexico.
I don't think Mexico turns into Venezuela if we're vigilant,
but it could if we're not. It could if we

(11:46):
leave it alone. It could if we continue to let
it fester as we did for you know, you have
to remember, prior to twenty fifteen, maybe twenty sixteen, the
Democratic Party line was that there's nothing going on here
on the border, right, fine, everything's cool, status quo is okay.
And clearly that's not the case as we all now see.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well, going back very briefly, that is China, I understand,
trying to trying to get a foothold literally everywhere around
the globe, doing great inroads in Africa. It's for their benefit,
trying to substitute America's influence for theirs. I'm just kind
of curious as we part company today, Brandon, are the China.
Is China enjoying the benefits of working with these evil

(12:31):
cartels or do they have a similar interest like we
would in getting rid of them to their benefit? In
other words, all the Chinese helped us get rid of
the cartels. We love them, and you're welcome to our country.
Which direction is this going, Brandon.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, I think that China is getting revenge on the
West for it happened historically without the Old in their country.
You know, if you have a government like China that
controls every facet, monitors every facet within their society, every
facet of production, every facet of shipping. Yet they're shipping

(13:05):
all of the precursor chemicals with Mexican cartels to make
sent of thel and thats amphetamine. Then then you would
have to say that the central government of China knows
exactly that they are shipping these precursors to Mexican cartels.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Yeah, it's a weapon of war. It's a weapon of war.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, yes, it's degrading us. And that's what China's attempting
to do.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Brandon Darby will if Donald Trump successfully negotiations and negotiates
an agreement with China where they agree to help stop
the flow of these precursor chemicals. Let's assume the impossible happens,
that in and of itself will go a long way
to eradicate the cartels in Mexico. I would hope.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Temporarily it would until I mean, you have to remember,
at this point, these beasts are so entrenched that they
would just start to produce their own pretersors.

Speaker 1 (13:57):
Fair enough, you could see that right on the horizon there.
Brandon Darby join him tonight. It begins at seven pm.
Empower Youamerica dot org. The site is currently not down.
We had some disruption here locally, we think it's been
impacted like by that. But register before seven pm, log
in from home. That's the only place you can do it.
There's no empower. You live seminar going on, and you
can hear the whole all these wonderful stories from the

(14:18):
Cartel chronicles, and you can thank Brandon Darby and the
team at Breitbart for helping out the American or the
Mexican folks and getting rid of these drugs and of
course helping America at the same time. Brandon, keep up
the great work man. I'm really impressed of what you've
been able to do there and it's fascinating reading. Thank
you my pleasure, Brandon Darby, eight twenty one,

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