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Colombia's Most Wanted Drug Dealer Captured: "Capturing Same as Pablo Escobar Capturing"
Dairo Antonio Osuga, captured by 500 Colombian security personnel who came to his aid aid from U.S. and British intelligence.
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Sunday, 24 October 2021, 04:42 Updated: 05:58
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Colombian security forces last night (Saturday) captured the country's most wanted drug dealer, Dairo Antonio Osuga, who is considered the leader of the Clan del Golfo drug cartel and has been on the run for more than a decade.
Colombian President Ivan Duka compared Osuga's capture to that of drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar three decades ago. "This is the biggest blow inflicted on drug trafficking in the current century," he said, "it can only be compared to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s." He further said that a policeman was killed during the manhunt for the criminal. Osuga was presented to the media while handcuffed and wearing rubber boots, which are worn by farmers in the country's villages.
Usuga, better known as "Otoniel", is the head of the Clan del Golpo organization, whose assassination army has terrorized northern Colombia, controlling cocaine smuggling routes in the crowded jungles of the region, through which drugs were smuggled into Central America and the United States.
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"The biggest blow against drug trafficking in the current century."
Osuga with security forces in Colombia, last night (Photo: AP)
For many years, Osuga was included in the list of the most wanted fugitives by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, for which he offered a $ 5 million reward.
Usuga was first indicted in 2009 in federal court in Manhattan, then charged with drug trafficking and providing assistance to an extreme right-wing military group, which was defined as a terrorist organization by the United States government.
Arrested after more than a decade of chasing him.
Osuga, last night (Photo: Reuters)
Additional indictments have been filed against him in federal courts in Brooklyn and Miami, in which he was charged with importing at least 73 tons of cocaine into the United States between 2003 and 2014.
It was also alleged that he operated and led guerrilla groups.
Authorities in Colombia said intelligence provided to them by the United States and Britain helped them capture Usuga.
About 500 soldiers and security personnel arrived at the hiding place to which the information led, where it was protected by eight security circles.
Usuga arrested, last night (Photo: Reuters)
Osuga set up with his brother, who was killed in a raid in 2012, a left-wing guerrilla known as the "People's Liberation Army".
The guerrillas later switched sides and joined right-wing political groups.
Osuga refused to disarm while the right-wing organizations he joined signed peace agreements with the Colombian government in 2006.
Instead he increased his power in the underworld of Colombia, becoming the leader of the Clan del Golpo drug cartel, which controlled a strategic location in the north of the country, surrounded on both sides by the Pacific Ocean.
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