The matador de toros, businessman and Mexican politician Rafael Ortega Blancas has died at the age of 53 at the Saint Geoge Clinic (United States) He was admitted for five days as a result of a sudden stroke he suffered when he was swimming in the pool of the hotel where he was staying with his family last Thursday. He was in critical condition and intubated in the Intensive Care Unit of the aforementioned clinic waiting for his brain to respond after he fainted.