Colombia's government is working towards extraditing the country's most-wanted drug trafficker ’Otoniel' to the United States, a day after he was captured in a major operation in the jungle.
"This is the hardest strike to drug trafficking in our country this century," President Ivan Duque said Saturday, adding that the arrest was"only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar," the notorious Colombian narco-trafficking kingpin.
Colombia's most-wanted drug lord and head of the Gulf Clan, Dairo Antonio Usuga , alias 'Otoniel', was captured by Colombian authorities, in Necocli, Antioquia department. Photo by Colombian Police / AFP Born to a poor family, Otoniel joined the EPL, a Marxist guerrilla group that demobilized in 1991. A paramilitary fighter, he ultimately headed the Gulf Clan, with a force of some 1,600 men and a presence in almost 300 municipalities nationwide, according to the independent think tank Indepaz.
"He murdered more than 200 members of the security forces... Many soldiers have suffered because of this murderer and his friends," Duque said.
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