The Most Wanted Drug Lord Since Pablo Escobar Is Arrested

The most wanted drug trafficker in Colombia, Dairo Antonio Usuga David, also known as ‘Otoniel’, has been detained by local security forces.

The arrest of the leader of the ‘Clan del Golfo’ cartel is, according to Colombian president Ivan Duque, the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country since the imprisonment of Pablo Escobar in 1993.

Otoniel has been detained in what Duque called ‘Operation Osiris’, in which the Colombian government offered a reward of 800,000 dollars, with the United States offering five million dollars.

He had been under siege from the army and police for months in the region of Uraba, where he was finally captured.

‘The most feared drug trafficker in the world’

Duque has labelled him ‘the most feared drug trafficker in the world’ and also a ‘murderer of police, soldiers and social leaders and a recruiter of children’.

The government had been pursuing him since 2015, killing dozens of his men in the process.

The Colombian president has stated that this is now the end of the road for the ‘Clan del Golfo’ trafficking group.