A few years ago, the DEA arrested the prime minister of the British Virgin Islands in Miami after he had just concluded a giant drug deal. I read about it at the time in the Miami Herald and made a google alert. The Guardian just published a deep-dive.
Certain countries are sending hit squads after perceived civilian enemies in western countries. For years, people who fall afoul of Putin's regime have fallen out of windows. Even in D.C. Chechens have been killed in Germany. Uighers and Chinese dissidents have been harassed across the west. Iran has hired Russian organized crime figures to target Iranian dissidents in the U.S. Last year, India targeted Sikhs in Canada and the U.S. These two articles, one in Bloomberg, one in The Economist’s 1843 magazine, explore the Sikh murder plots.
Russia has been recruiting thousands of young men from the third world to join the Russian army and essentially serve as cannon fodder. This piece from Josimar Football delves into the unemployed migrant workers stranded in Qatar who were recruited for jobs in Russia, only to find themselves foisted into the Russian military. Cubans, too, have found themselves fighting for Russia in Ukraine.