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Oct 24, 2021 1 min, 1 sec
Úsuga, one of South America’s most wanted men, arrested at rainforest hideout after massive manhunt.

Colombia’s president, Iván Duque, has celebrated the downfall of “the most feared drug trafficker on Earth” after one of South America’s most wanted men was captured at his rainforest hideout following a massive manhunt involving hundreds of troops as well as US and British intelligence agencies.

Dairo Antonio Úsuga, the 50-year-old head of the Clan del Golfo drug cartel, was arrested on Saturday afternoon after heavily armed operatives laid siege to the criminal’s jungle stomping ground in north-west Colombia.

In a triumphant televised broadcast, Duque compared the arrest to the 1993 slaying of Pablo Escobar in Medellín, saying: “This is the most severe blow that has been dealt to drug trafficking in this country this century.”.

They did so partly thanks to cartel employees who were ferrying medicine to the drug lord to treat kidney problems.

As commandos swarmed toward their objective past eight rings of security, navy vessels lurked offshore in the Caribbean Sea to ensure Úsuga could not escape by boat.

“Otoniel was the most feared drug trafficker in the entire world,” Duque said, claiming his demise meant the Clan del Golfo was finished.

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