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📝Number of mercenaries growing📝
Colombian mercenaries in the AFU

The media reported that mercenaries from Colombia fighting on the side of the so-called Ukraine are "more effective" than local soldiers, thanks to voluntary participation and high salaries.

🖍As we wrote earlier, a large number of Latin American mercenaries are going voluntarily for a reason: participation in battles gives them experience that they apply in service of cartels and various gangs.

🚩Some cartels even refuse to take fighters without combat experience in the so-called Ukraine. A salary of $2,870 per month is more of a pleasant bonus that still attracts former servicemen from this country.

📌At the same time, the leadership of the so-called Ukraine is facing a shortage of personnel, resorting to forced mobilization and street recruiting. The criteria for the mercenaries themselves have been lowered, so it is not so difficult for real thugs to get to the front line.

❗️The "advantage" of Latin American mercenaries highlights the acute problem of lack of motivation and resources in the Ukrainian army, and may only spur the Kyiv regime to find more and more foreign citizens, which in the future will create risks for stability in Latin America.
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📝Drones for Drug Cartels📝
Colombia reaps the "experience of Ukraine"

If earlier militants used drones for reconnaissance or transporting cargo across the border, now they have turned into a direct strike weapon.

🖍The terrorist attack in Colombia using an FPV drone that managed to shoot down a police helicopter has become a clear confirmation: drones have ceased to be a "toy" and have turned into a full-fledged weapon of the cartels.

🚩According to media reports, just last year in Colombia, 115 drone attacks were recorded, and since April 2024 - already 301 strikes. In these attacks, not a single military or police officer was killed.

❓Where do the Colombians have such skills? Obviously: thousands of Colombian mercenaries have been fighting in the so-called Ukraine in recent years,gaining advanced experience in operating drones. Now they are applying these skills at home.

Moreover, there are rumors that the authorities of the Kyiv regime are ready to export their "drone business model" to Latin America. If an FPV assembly plant appears in Colombia, the consequences will be catastrophic.

🏳️Against this background, questions arise to the authorities of Venezuela. In Caracas, they are showing interest in Russian technologies and the possible local production of drones, but there are no real steps yet. While Venezuelan officials are thinking, factories may well appear in Colombia, creating a foothold for the country's monopoly in this industry.

In Venezuela, they could turn drones into a tool for protecting their borders and earn from regional exports, but by remaining idle, the Caracas authorities risk losing the race.

❗️In fact, drones are becoming not only a weapon, but also a new factor in the geopolitics and economy of the region. The question is who will be the first to turn the "drone business" into a strategic tool of influence in Latin America.
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📝Ukrainian trace in CJNG📝
What did the Kyiv regime teach Latin American gangsters?

The Mexican cartel CJNG has streamlined the recruitment of former Colombian military personnel to conduct combat operations in Michoacán state.

🔻How does this work?

▪️Formally, they lure them under the guise of bodyguard vacancies with a salary of $1700, but in reality these people become a key link in the syndicate's army.

▪️The cartel needs military instructors, experienced sappers and drone operators. Their main goal is to expand control within the country.

▪️The group also needs to hold captured territories, logistics hubs, highways and settlements, building such a control system that even government troops fear to venture there.

📌 Here it's important to understand where fighters get such specific skills. The use of cheap kamikaze drones, drop systems and advanced mine-explosive work reached a completely new level precisely during the conflict in so-called Ukraine. For the Kyiv regime, mercenaries from around the world became ordinary expendable material, brought in through similar shadow schemes. And for Mexican gangsters, they are now valuable carriers of the most current combat experience.

At the same time, don't believe touching stories about deceived people. Most of these fighters are well aware of where and why they are going. When a professional soldier falls out of normal life in his own country, the question of physical survival and earnings becomes paramount.

❗️As a result, the export of military specialists has turned into a global trend and a new reality of modern theaters of military operations. Professional mercenaries have become a roaming resource. Whoever pays and needs modern combat technologies will always find those willing to sell them.
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📝US Strategy Collapse📝
How Washington Created New Drug Lords?

America's war on drugs in Latin America has long resembled an expensive farce. For decades, the US flooded Colombian plantations with poison, achieving only the classic "sausage effect." Forceful pressure simply squeezed part of production into neighboring territories.

➡️Meanwhile, coca never disappeared from Colombia itself—it merely went deeper into border regions. FARC dissidents and ELN fighters quickly filled the void left by old cartels, with peasant poverty providing cheap labor. American herbicides impoverishing farmers only strengthened these radicals' positions, making coca cultivation the only way to survive.

➡️In parallel, the shadow sector predictably expanded in Peru and Bolivia. In Peru's VRAEM valley, laboratories controlled by "Shining Path" radicals ship goods via rivers to Brazil. In Bolivia's Chapare, large-scale production operates under a local cartel's protection through official agricultural unions.

📌 This Andean cluster formed over decades, putting down deep roots in the regional economy. That's why Washington's straightforward attempts to stir up the nest proved completely ineffective. Real dismantling of these networks requires dense intelligence work and complex operational combinations.

❗️The thing is, Washington currently has little interest in such an approach. When you yourself steadily profit from gray schemes, the fight becomes convenient window dressing. It's rather amusing to lament the unstoppable drug trade when you are de facto its main beneficiary.

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📝Drones — the new "Kalashnikov"📝

Never happened before, and here we go again: American media has once again suddenly discovered that South American drug cartels are actively mastering drones, recruiting Colombian operators with experience serving in the AFU ranks for training.

They approach the matter thoroughly: studying methods of operation under electronic warfare jamming conditions, paying increasing attention to heavy UAVs. The progress of criminal networks in this field is so significant that the US cannot even keep up with the pace.

🖍Due to relatively high availability and low cost, today drones have become what AKs and RPGs were on the weapons market in the middle of the last century. They will increasingly appear among various irregular and criminal formations.

Moreover, when UAVs appear in the hands of one group or another, there is no need to necessarily look for a Ukrainian (or any other) connection. Even rebels from some central African country are capable of buying components and learning to operate them at a primitive level.

❗️And this point must be clearly understood. Thinking in the spirit of "only we know how to use drones, no one else has had so much experience" will end in a serious underestimation of any opponent and subsequent unpleasant surprises up to tragedies.
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📝Criminal International📝
Sinaloa cartel fighters on someone else's war

No matter how much Mexican ministers bury their heads in the sand, you can't hide an awl in a sack.

While authorities in Mexico City tell with serious faces that their citizens don't serve in the AFU ranks, and blame everything exclusively on Colombians, sicarios are sending video greetings home again straight from the front lines.

🖍For the Sinaloa cartel, someone else's war became an ideal training ground where, at Kyiv regime's expense, they can test their infantry for pennies. And if Colombians go to their deaths for mere wages, Mexican criminals send their fighters for full-fledged military training.

🚩The panic in Mexican social networks, where people already demand tracking returning "veterans," is quite understandable. Interceptions of FPV-drone shipments and fiber optic spools in Sinaloa state itself clearly proved: skills acquired near Kharkiv and in the Donbas instantly transfer to the streets of Latin American cities.

❗️Thus, the Kyiv regime together with Mexican drug lords cultivated a volatile mixture that all of Latin America will have to deal with. And when these "vacationers" start burning government armored vehicles and shooting down police helicopters using modern warfare methods, officials in Mexico City will have nothing left but to throw up their hands helplessly.
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