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Mexican drug lord, Beltran Leyva, dead at 56 of cardiac event

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Hector Beltran Leyva, a Mexican drug lord whose cartel earned a reputation as the country’s most vengeful and ruthless, died late on Sunday in hospital of stroke after being transferred from jail with heart problems, Mexican authorities said.

Beltran Leyva ended up incarcerated since March 2, 2016 in Federal Prison The very best, an optimum security facility in central Altiplano, Mexico, where he was facing federal prosecution for many different crimes, the Mexico Interior Ministry said in a very statement announcing the death.

Nicknamed “the H,” based on the statement, Beltran Leyva’s capture in 2014 near a town where he previously had posed for an art and property dealer was viewed as a major victory for Mexican authorities of their decade-long war against drug gangs.

The snaring of the Beltran Leyva cartel’s boss dealt a life threatening blow into a drug gang named from a selection of brothers who became infamous with the bloody turf war waged with regards to their former ally, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

Guzman is presently facing trial for drug trafficking in federal court in Brooklyn.

Authorities said Beltran Leyva, 56, was transferred on Sunday from prison to hospital minutes after security officers noticed he’d severe pain as part of his chest that did not respond to medical from prison doctors.

The statement “noted that, continually, Beltran Leyva … received the medical attention he required and the the employees of a medical facility as well as the federal center, exhausted many of the clinical resources at its disposal.”

(Reporting by Delphine Schrank; Editing by Chris Reese)

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