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  • Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid

    ASTRID SUAREZ and JOSHUA GOODMAN|Oct 24, 2021

    BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian security forces have captured the country's most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right. President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Úsuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar. Colombia's military presented Úsuga to the media in handcuffs and wearing rubber boots preferred by rural farmers. Úsuga, better known by his alias Otoniel, is the a...