Otoniel, Colombian's most wanted drug lord, is to be extradited to the US after his capture.
Colombia has announced that the country's most wanted drug trafficker will be extradited to the US after his capture on Saturday.
Authorities have now taken Otoniel to a military base in the capital Bogotá ahead of his extradition, according to newspaper El Nuevo Siglo."This is the biggest blow against drug trafficking in our country this century," he said. "This blow is only comparable to the fall of Pablo Escobar in the 1990s."Otoniel was captured in his rural hideout in Antioquia province in north-western Colombia, close to the border with Panama.
Mr Duque described the operation as "the biggest penetration of the jungle ever seen in the military history of our country".Colombia's armed forces later released a photo showing its soldiers guarding Otoniel, who was in handcuffs and wearing rubber boots. "In South America, there is no larger cocaine trafficker," says Toby Muse, author of Kilo: Inside the Cocaine Cartels. "We are living in the golden age of cocaine, we are producing more cocaine than ever - that's a fact."
Otoniel then took charge of the group after its previous leader - his brother - was killed by police in a raid on a New Year's Eve party almost 10 years ago.
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