Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured in jungle raid

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 Ivan Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Usuga to the capture three decades ago of Pablo Escobar.

Colombia’s military presented Usuga to the media in handcuffs and wearing rubber boots preferred by rural farmers.

Usuga, better known by his alias Otoniel, is the alleged head of the much-feared Gulf Clan, whose army of assassins has terrorized much of northern Colombia