This alleged recruitment scheme entails considerable risk of blowback. Russia’s foreign intelligence service SVR reported on Tuesday that American PMCs are recruiting convicted Mexican and Colombian drug dealers from prison with the support of the DEA and FBI. They’re offered complete amnesty if they survive, but the talks apparently aren’t going well since the cartel members don’t want to agree without the approval of their bosses, who SVR claimed are haggling with the American security agencies to sell their members to those PMCs at the highest price possible.
Shades of Maos’ house cleaning. BTW looking for info re factions/cartels in Mexico, Central and South America. Just how powerful are they?