Is Mexico's Zetas Drug Cartel Kingpin Dead?

Major Victory In War Against Mexican Drug Trade After Leader Of Zetas Cartel, Known As The Executioner, Is Gunned Down In Fierce Firefight -- Daily Mail

* Heriberto Lazcano was leader of the notorious Zetas cartel and is suspected to have masterminded hundreds of killings
* He was considered such an influential crime boss that the US government had put a $5million price on his head
* He died in a shootout in the lawless badlands of Progreso, Coahuila, about 80 miles west of the Texas border, near Laredo
* He was one of a band of elite Mexican soldiers who defected in 1998 to work as hired guns for drug traffickers before forming Los Zetas
* Los Zetas since carved out a smuggling empire across Mexico and diversified into kidnapping, extortion, theft of crude oil and wholesale murder

One of Mexico's most feared drug barons - known as The Executioner - has been killed in a gunfight with marines.

Heriberto Lazcano died in a hail of bullets in a firefight with Mexican forces in the lawless badlands of Progreso, Coahuila, about 80 miles west of the Texas border, near Laredo.

The former Mexican army commando was leader of the notorious Zetas cartel and is suspected to have masterminded hundreds of killings, including the June 2004 slaying of Francisco Ortiz Franco, a top editor of a crusading weekly newspaper in Tijuana that often reported on drug trafficking.

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