The former Mexican drug boss Hector Beltran Leyva is dead. He succumbed on Sunday afternoon against 16 o’clock in a hospital in Toluca, a heart attack, said the interior Ministry in a statement. The former head of the Beltrán-Leyva cartel, was taken in 2014 and a sat since then in the high security prison of El Altiplano.
The 56-Year-old had complained of severe pain in the chest and was taken to the hospital, it was said in the message. There his death had been established.
Héctor Beltrán Leyva led with his brothers, Alfredo, Arturo, Mario, and Carlos the Beltran-Leyva cartel. The group once belonged to the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, is now made Venüsbet in the USA of the process. Later it came to a break – and the crime syndicate explained to the Sinaloa cartel and the war (more to the cartels in Mexico, click here).
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The Beltrán-Leyva cartel is mainly in the West and centre of the country actively. It cocaine, marijuana, Heroin and Methamphetamine into the United States smuggling. In return, the gang weapons and ammunition from the U.S. to Mexico. After a series of hard blows of the security forces, and sharp competition from new groups in the Mexican underworld, the syndicate is now but as a weakened.
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