September 27, 1961 - Arturo Beltrán Leyva
His reach extended well beyond trafficking — by 2008, his organization had penetrated Mexico's political, judicial, and law enforcement institutions, including the Interpol office in Mexico, siphoning classified intelligence on anti-drug operations. That capacity for institutional infiltration, combined with command over organized assassination networks dating to the mid-1990s, distinguished him within a crowded field of cartel leadership. The Beltrán-Leyva Cartel he co-founded with his brothers represented a significant fracture in the Sinaloa Cartel's structure, reshaping the geography of drug violence in Mexico.
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Arturo Beltrán Leyva (September 27, 1961 – December 16, 2009) was a Mexican drug lord who, alongside his brothers, founded and led the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel. Prior to founding his own organization, Beltran-Leyva was a longtime high-ranking member of the Sinaloa Cartel. Beltrán-Leyva cartel was responsible for organizing cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine production, transportation and wholesaling. It controlled numerous drug trafficking corridors into the United States and was responsible for money laundering, gun-running, and other acts of violence against men, women, and children in Mexico. The organization was connected with the assassinations of numerous Mexican law enforcement officials.
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 steal classified information about anti-drug operations, and even infiltrated the Interpol office in Mexico.
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