Francisco Beltran was killed instantly along with his driver, their bodies found slumped over in their seats after the concentrated blast. Video and pictures of the attack on March 28 show a quick burst of flames with the car continuing to roll forward, drifting off the highway.

Known as “El Payin,” Beltran was accused of being a mid-level member of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug trafficking syndicates, Mexican security analysts and sources familiar with his activities said.

Mexican authorities have maintained extreme secrecy around the explosion, but multiple sources tell CNN that the attack was a targeted assassination, facilitated by CIA operations officers. An explosive device had been hidden inside the vehicle, the State of Mexico’s Attorney General told CNN.

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Ovidio Guzmán-López, a.k.a. El Ratón, is a high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel. He and his brother, Joaquín Guzmán-López, “function in high-level command and control roles of their own drug trafficking organization, the Guzmán-López Transnational Criminal Organization, under the umbrella of the Sinaloa Cartel,” U.S. authorities say.

El Ratón was arrested by Mexican authorities in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, just days before Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is set to meet with President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City, according to the Mexican newspaper La Prensa.

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