Dairo Antonio Usuga, 50, the Colombian narcos attested in the north-west of the country, in Necocli, was hiding in the jungle. Long on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s most wanted list, the Dea, of the United States, had been offered a $ 5 million reward for his capture.
With the support of the US and the UK, more than 500 Colombian soldiers and members of the Colombian special forces broke into the Usuga jungle hideout, which was protected by eight safety rings.
In 2017 he showed his face for the first time on the occasion of Pope Francis’ visit to the country, publishing a video in which he asked that his group could lay down their arms and demobilize as part of the country’s peace process with the armed forces. revolutionaries of Colombia.
Usuga was first indicted in 2009 by the federal court in Manhattan on drug trafficking charges and for providing assistance to a far-right paramilitary group deemed by the US to be a terrorist organization.
Subsequent indictments in federal courts in Brooklyn and Miami accused him of importing at least 73 tons of cocaine into the United States between 2003 and 2014 via countries such as Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama and Honduras.