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Colombia captures its most wanted drug lord 'Otoniel'

"...500 police personnel, 22 helicopters"

Dairo Antonio Usuga was captured in a jungle raid involving 500 police personnel and 22 helicopters. President Ivan Duque compared it to the fall of Pablo Escobar.

Colombian authorities said on Saturday they captured Dairo Antonio Usuga, the country's biggest drug trafficker.

Usuga, better known by his alias "Otoniel," is the alleged leader of the violent Clan Del Golfo cartel, which had control of major cocaine smuggling routes through thick jungles.


Compared to capture of Escobar

Colombia's President Ivan Duque compared Saturday's arrest to the fall of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug lord killed in a police shootout in 1993.

"This the hardest blow... to drug trafficking this century in our country," Duque said.

"Alias Otoniel was the most feared drug lord in the world, a murderer of police, soldiers and local activists," he added.

The arrest was "the biggest penetration of the jungle ever seen in the military history of our country," Duque said.

Duque urged other of the cartel to turn themselves in or "feel the full weight of the law."

Usuga stands accused of various crimes, including drug trafficking, murder, extortion, kidnapping, conspiracy and illegal recruiting of minors. He was on the US Drug Enforcement istration's most wanted list.

The US State Department had offered up to $5 million (€4.29 million) for information leading to his arrest or conviction in 2009. US and British authorities were also informed about the details of the arrest.

Who is 'Otoniel' Usuga?

The 50-year-old was born in Necocli and was the seventh of nine children to a rural family. At age 18, he ed a Marxist guerilla group that was later disbanded.

In the 90s, he aligned himself with the Peasant Self-Defenders of Cordoba and Uraba (ACCU), which worked to protect farmers against guerillas, and was also linked to drug trafficking . Some of these paramilitary groups then became the Gulf clan.

Usuga took over the leadership of the clan from his brother, who was killed by the police in 2012.

He evaded arrest for many years. During this operation, about 500 police officers and 22 helicopters were deployed.

https://m.dw.com/en/colombia-captures-its-most-wanted-drug-lord-otoniel/a-59608144

Dairo Antonio Usuga was captured in a jungle raid involving 500 police personnel and 22 helicopters. President Ivan Duque compared it to the fall of Pablo Escobar.

This should be made into a movie,bad guy to the core

My nigga, he will escape soon

Sunnybay7:
This should be made into a movie,bad guy to the core

exactly. an intense manhunt thriller/action movie

End of the road

What's with south American and drug Lord's

Is He greater than Pablo Escobar?

WHO IS SYNTHENCIZING HARD DRUGS TO DESTROY PPL PSYCHY.BRADA FESSIE ED AWAY FR HARD DRUGS.
INTERPOL SHOULD TAKE OUT ALL THESE DEVILISH PPL THAT POLLUTE THE WORLD WITH HARD DRUGS AND DEVILISH VIOLENCE.

HOLLY GRAM HOW I WISH I CAN B A DRUG LORD SOME DAY. I NEVER HVE TO BUY KUSH. IF POSSIBLE HVE A KUSH PLANT OR KUSH FARM. WISH MY DREAMS WILL COME THRU. WTF MAN

E Go Be

Exactly the saying, you can run but you can not hide.l forever

From the picture a combined team of Police, Army, their Airforce and 'Commandoes' (?) ed forces to capture just one man. Wawu!

They still learning from the Medellin boy.

PARADIZEPRIEST:
WHO IS SYNTHENCIZING HARD DRUGS TO DESTROY PPL PSYCHY.BRADA FESSIE ED AWAY FR HARD DRUGS.
INTERPOL SHOULD TAKE OUT ALL THESE DEVILISH PPL THAT POLLUTE THE WORLD WITH HARD DRUGS AND DEVILISH VIOLENCE.

It's not that easy, bro. Drug lords and their sicarios can never be wiped out entirely. The West, Britain, , Russia and other developed nations do use them especially as informants most times for converts operations after cutting a deal. You think America didn't benefit from the opium market in Afghanistan?

There are many things behind the curtains that they don't reveal to the public.

Another freedom fighter bites the dust.

Hmmm i pity the guy

Wow

When government comes for you, you can't run and you can't hide.

500 Policemen and 22 Helicopters

They are really all out for him..
He should have kuku killed himself before they got to him.

Death is quicker than embarrassment ....... African Proverbs!

OlawaleBammie:


Death is quicker than embarrassment is not same thing with the yoruba word...."iku ya jesin" ooh

Iku ya jesin means death is better than embarrassment(in some occasions tho)

Oh, thank you very much Mr Wale Bammie..
We are polishing our Yoruba @MANNA.
We believe we tried atleast till Sisi Yewande comes back from pre-natal.

Prison break loading...........

Pablo Escoba the greatest of all time

Anything u wish to do....do it well







Guys wey no get girlfriend get peace of mind

Look at his face.
Hardened jungle criminal.

The look you give When you know most of them policemen are on your payroll and they might help u escape from cell

He is a Hero. I love men like him

I will rather push drug than do Yahoo...

Insurgence thrives when government is not ready to go all out to fight it. No person or group of persons should be stronger than the country.

Drug kills
Drug destroys.

Mist of these big Drug dealers don't use drugs.
They just use it to destroy life in the name of making money.

Oh boy eeh! Na real Drug Chairman o

.

Dairo or Fadairo is a yoruba name. Anyway, they tried.