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Soldiers stand guard near an apartment complex in Cuernavaca, Mexico on Wednesday.

Mexico’s vicious “Boss of Bosses” and three members of his drug cartel were killed in a two-hour gunbattle with a navy assault team, authorities reported Thursday.  

The killing of Arturo Beltran Leyva – notorious for numerous murders and beheadings – marks one of the biggest victories in President Filipe Calderon’s drug war.