Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid
ABC News
Colombian authorities captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker for whom the U.S. government had been offering a $5 million reward
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian security forces have captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who evaded a decade long manhunt by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right.
President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Úsuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar.
Images circulating on social media show Úsuga handcuffed with his face planted to the ground.
Úsuga, better known by his alias Otoniel, is the alleged head of the much-feared Gulf Clan, whose army of assassins has terrorized much of northern Colombia to gain control of major cocaine smuggling routes through thick jungles north to Central America and onto the U.S.
