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The cartel kingpin 'Boss of Bosses' has officially been fired. After an intense movie-like two hour stand off Arturo 'El Barbas' Beltran Leyva and three members of his organization were shot down by an elite Mexican Navy assault team.
In a carefully executed attack, heavily armed Mexican marines quietly evacuated an upscale apartment complex in Cuernavaca Wednesday before some 200 troops stormed the building and demanded the surrender of Beltran Leyva, one of the world's most brutal drug lords.
More than two hundred sailors on land and in air surrounded and raided an upscale apartment complex in the city Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City. Cartel gunmen hurled grenades that killed one sailor and injured two others. A fifth member of Beltran Leyva’s crew committed suicide during the shootout.
Mr. Beltran Leyva was known by many nicknames, including El Muerte (Death), El Barbas (the Beard) and El Botas Blancas, for the white cowboy boots he was said to prefer. He liked to be called Jefe de Jefes, or Boss of Bosses. The mutilated, beheaded bodies of his victims were frequently found in public places with pieces of paper pinned to them carrying that grim signature.
Using private planes, container ships, even submarines, his cartel smuggled tons of cocaine from Colombia and Panama to the Mexican interior and on to the United States, netting hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars in profit. The Beltran Leyva cartel is primarily responsible for cocaine, marijuana, heroin and metamfetamine production, transportation and wholesaling.
It controls numerous drug trafficking corridors into the United States and is also responsible for human smuggling, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, murder, contract killing, torture, gun-running and and various other savage acts of violence against numerous men, women, and children in Mexico. The organization is connected with the assassinations of numerous Mexican law enforcement officials and politicians.
The cartel kept on its payroll both a former acting chief of the Federal Police and Mexico's former anti-drug czar, prosecutor Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who was getting $500,000 a month.
Since the mid 1990s Arturo Beltrán Leyva allegedly led powerful groups of assassins to fight for trade routes in northeastern Mexico. By 2008, through the use of corruption or intimidation, he was able to infiltrate Mexico's political, judicial and police institutions to feed classified information about anti-drug operations, and even infiltrated the Interpol office in Mexico.
