Marcos Arturo Beltrán-Leyva

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Marcos Arturo Beltrán-Leyva (born September 17, 1961 in Badiraguato , Mexico , † December 16, 2009 in Cuernavaca , Mexico), also known as "El Barbas", was a Mexican drug trafficker , chief of the Beltrán-Leyva cartel and of Mexico and the USA wanted internationally. A $ 1.5 million reward was offered for his capture and he has been on the list of the 37 most wanted drug lords in Mexico since 2009 .

The Beltrán Leyva brothers were among the best-known drug traffickers in the Sinaloa cartel until they split off in January 2008 under the leadership of Arturo. Within a short time Arturo Beltran-Leyva rose to become one of the most powerful and cruel bosses of Mexican drug cartels. According to US figures, the two cartels smuggled more than 400 tons of cocaine and heroin into the US between 1990 and 2008, earning almost six billion dollars. This succeeded because the cartels corrupted some drug investigators, judges and politicians up to the highest levels or murdered undesirable people. As early as 2008 he was pursued by a special detachment headed by the then commander of the Mexican federal police, Edgar Millán. However, he escaped in time. Shortly afterwards, Millán was murdered by a contract killer.

Beltrán-Leyva was tracked down on December 11, 2009 by agents of the US drug control agency DEA at a party and has been under constant surveillance ever since. The access by soldiers of the Navy took place on December 16, 2009. Beltrán-Leyva died in a shootout with the soldiers in a luxury residence in Cuernavaca in southern Mexico. A few days before the end of the year, the blow against Beltrán-Leyva, known as the “boss of the bosses”, was considered a success for President Felipe Calderón in the Mexican drug war .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Department of State: Narcotics Rewards Program: Marcos Arturo Beltran-Leyva. Archived from the original on January 11, 2011 ; accessed on December 21, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Tages Anzeiger: In the war against the infamous Sinaloa cartel. December 17, 2009, accessed December 21, 2009 .
  3. ↑ badische-zeitung.de accessed on December 22, 2009
  4. ^ Süddeutsche.de accessed on December 21, 2009 ( Memento from November 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ FR-Online accessed on December 22, 2009
  6. ↑ Reuters.de, accessed on December 21, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Beltrán-Leyva, Marcos Arturo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican drug lord
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Badiraguato , Mexico
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2009
Place of death Cuernavaca , Mexico