Duque, Usuga arrest is drug trafficking coup of the century

(ANSA) - BOGOTA, OCTOBER 23 - The arrest of Dario Antonio Usuga, head of the Gulf clan, "is the hardest blow that has been inflicted on drug trafficking in our country in this century, a success comparable only to the fall of Pablo Escobar ": Colombian President Ivan Duque said on twitter, also revealing some details about his capture.

    The drug trafficker was captured in Necocli, in the north-west of the country, near the border with Panama.

It was "the largest expedition into the jungle ever made in our country's military history," Duque said, with the help of US and British halves and intelligence.

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