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Our Country

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Initial release November 3, 2006
Directors Francesca Comencini
Producers Donatella Botti
Composers Banda Osiris
Screenplay Francesca Comencini
Franco Bernini
Founders Aleksandra Pivec
FoundedMaribor
Slovenia
Leader Aleksandra Pivec
President
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About Our Country


Our Country or Our Land is a Slovene political party founded by Aleksandra Pivec. The founding congress of the party was held on 20 March 2021, in Maribor. Due to the epidemiological situation, the program was conducted by videoconference, and 173 of the 210 invited party delegates were present.

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Colombia's most wanted drug lord Otoniel captured

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Colombia's Most Wanted drug trafficker and the leader of the country's largest criminal gang has been captured.

Dairo Antonio Usuga, better known as Otoniel, was seized after a joint operation by the army, Air Force and police on Saturday.

The government had offered a $800,000 (£582,000) reward for information about His whereabouts, while the US placed a $5m bounty on His head.

President Iván Duque hailed Otoniel's capture in a televised video message.

" 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. While details of the operation are still emerging, The President said one Police Officer had been killed.

Colombia's armed forces later released a photo showing its soldiers guarding the handcuffed Otoniel.

There have been several huge operations involving thousands of officers to capture the 50-year-old in recent years, but Until Now none have been successful.

Otoniel become The Head of The Gulf Clan, previously known as the Usuga Clan, after its previous leader - His Brother - was killed by police in a raid on a New Year 's Eve party almost Ten Years ago.

Colombia's security forces labelled The Gang as the country's most powerful criminal organisation, while authorities in the US describe it as " heavily armed [and] extremely violent".

The Gang , which operates in many provinces and has extensive international connections, is engaged in drug and people smuggling, illegal gold mining and extortion.

It is believed to have about 1,800 armed members who are mainly recruited from far-right paramilitary groups. Members have been arrested as Far Away as Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Peru and Spain.

The Gang controls many of the routes used to smuggle drugs from Colombia to the US and as Far Away as Russia.

The Colombian government, however, believes it has decimated its numbers in recent years, forcing many leading members to hide in remote regions in The Jungle .

Otoniel now faces A Number of charges including sending shipments of cocaine to the US, killing police officers and recruiting children.

He was indicted in the US in 2009, and faces extradition proceedings which could see him eventually appear In Court in New York .

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Source of news: bbc.com

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