The most needed drug trafficker in Colombia, Dairo Antonio Usuga David, also called ‘Otoniel’, has been detained by native safety forces.
The arrest of the chief of the ‘Clan del Golfo’ cartel is, in line with Colombian president Ivan Duque, the largest blow to drug trafficking within the nation because the imprisonment of Pablo Escobar in 1993.
Otoniel has been detained in what Duque known as ‘Operation Osiris’, by which the Colombian authorities supplied a reward of 800,000 {dollars}, with the USA providing 5 million {dollars}.
He had been below siege from the military and police for months within the area of Uraba, the place he was lastly captured.
‘Probably the most feared drug trafficker on this planet’
Duque has labelled him ‘essentially the most feared drug trafficker on this planet’ and likewise a ‘assassin of police, troopers and social leaders and a recruiter of youngsters’.
The federal government had been pursuing him since 2015, killing dozens of his males within the course of.
The Colombian president has said that that is now the top of the street for the ‘Clan del Golfo’ trafficking group.
