Arturo Beltran Leyva, shot dead during a shootout with security forces, was one of Mexico's most wanted men, with a $2.3m reward on his head.
Known as "the boss of bosses", he headed the cartel that bears his name, the Beltran Leyva Organisation (BLO).
This was formed as as a gang in its own right after a 2008 split from the notorious and powerful Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin Shorty Guzman.
The area of operations of the two gangs along Mexico's Pacific coast overlap to some extent and the two gangs are fighting for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the US market.
In the fluctuating and violent alliances between Mexico's drug gangs, the Beltran Leyva cartel has teamed up with Los Zetas in their deadly feud with the Sinaloa cartel.
Los Zetas are a group of former soldiers hired by the Gulf Cartel as hitmen but now a gang in its own right.
The Beltran Leyva Organisation has been around for a long time and has perhaps the most sophisticated intelligence of any of the gangs, according to a recent report by Stratfor Global Intelligence.
The gang has penetrated every level of Mexican government
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