# Cartel Expert on the Mexican Auschwitz & Thousands of Missing People | Ed Calderon

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Podcast: [Julian Dorey Daily](https://stenobird.com/podcast/julian-dorey-daily-7299101)
Published: 2026-08-14T16:00:00+00:00
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Watch the FULL EPISODE here: https://youtu.be/Ksrh_7aGLVo Subscribe Here: @JulianDoreyDaily ED'S LINKS - IG: https://www.instagram.com/manifestoradiopodcast/ - X: https://x.com/eds_manifesto?t=mHTfUjf5CPPxGcS7lxBBfg&s=09 - WEBSITE: http://edsmanifesto.com --- Ed Calderon — former Mexican counter-narcotics and organized crime operative with over a decade of frontline experience — returns to Julian Dorey for the most disturbing and most consequentially underreported conversation in the series. The subject is Rancho Izaguirre in Teuchitlán Jalisco — the site that news reports proclaimed the Mexican Auschwitz — an apparent CJNG killing ground featuring makeshift crematoria and hundreds of abandoned shoes backpacks T-shirts and other personal effects belonging to people who were never found. And the cover-up that Calderon argues the Mexican government has been running since the discovery became public. Authorities insist the ranch was never a place of extermination or large-scale disposal of bodies but rather served as a cartel training ground — apparently one of many such clandestine sites scattered across Mexico. Activists for the missing do not believe them. Even so they accuse the government of President Claudia Sheinbaum — who vowed to uncover the truth — of a cover-up. "We all feel betrayed," said Raúl Servín one of the first searchers at the scene. Ed Calderon examines what the physical evidence at Rancho Izaguirre actually shows, why the training ground explanation does not account for what was found, and what the makeshift crematoria and the personal effects of hundreds of people who never came home actually tell you about what the site was used for. The missing persons thread is the episode's most humanly devastating contribution. Mexico's missing persons cris…

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