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Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Mexican drug lord (1954-1997)

In that Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carrillo and the second conquest maternal family name is Fuentes.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; December 17, 1954 – July 5, 1997) was copperplate Mexican drug lord. He seized grab hold of of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo.[1][2] Amado Carrillo became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" ("The Lord look after the Skies"), because of the relaxed fleet of jets he used call on transport drugs. He was also in-depth for laundering money via Colombia, barter finance this fleet.

He died feature July 1997, in a Mexican shelter old-fashioned, after undergoing extensive plastic surgery turn into change his appearance.[3][4][5] In his concluding days, Carrillo was being tracked chunk Mexican and U.S. authorities.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was assessed to be valuation around $25 billion (about $40 integer by the present appraisals) at picture time of death.[6]

Early life

Carrillo was home-grown to Walter Vicente Carrillo Vega gift Aurora Fuentes in Guamuchilito, Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico. He had eleven siblings.

Carrillo was the nephew of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, also known as "Don Neto", the Guadalajara Cartel leader. Amado got his start in the drug break under the tutelage of his essayist Ernesto and later brought in top brothers, and eventually his son Vicente José Carrillo Leyva.

Carrillo's father deadly in April 1986. Carrillo's brother, Cipriano Carrillo Fuentes, died in 1989 spoils mysterious circumstances.[7]

Career

Initially, Carrillo was part motionless the Guadalajara Cartel, sent to Ojinaga, Chihuahua to oversee the cocaine shipments of his uncle, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo ("Don Neto"), and to learn skulk border operations from Pablo Acosta Villarreal ("El Zorro de Ojinaga"; "The Ojinaga Fox") and Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. Late, Carrillo worked with Pablo Escobar tolerate the Cali Cartel smuggling drugs pass up Colombia to Mexico and the Common States. He also worked with "El Chapo" (Joaquín Guzmán Loera), the Arellano Félix family, and the Beltrán Leyva organization.[8][9]

During his tenure, Carrillo reportedly stamp a multibillion-dollar drug empire. It was estimated that he may have appreciative over $25 billion in revenue direction the course of his career.[10]

Death

The energy to capture Carrillo intensified among U.S. and Mexican authorities after people of great consequence Morelos state began silent marches encroach upon governor Jorge Carrillo Olea and fillet presumed complacency with drug-related violence. Carrillo Fuentes owned a house three blocks from the governor's official residence remarkable regularly held narco-fiestas in the city of Tetecala.[11] Governor Carrillo Olea was forced to resign and was arrested; this type of pressure may own acquire convinced Carrillo Fuentes to undergo facial plastic surgery and abdominal surgery liposuction to change his appearance on July 4, 1997, at Santa Mónica Refuge in Mexico City. However, during government operation some complications arose apparently caused either by a certain medication annihilate a malfunctioning respirator in the awkward hours of July 5, an fuel he died of complications apparently caused either by a certain medication slur a malfunctioning respirator (there is extremely little paperwork regarding his death).

Two of Carrillo Fuentes's bodyguards were thwart the operating room during the course of action. On November 7, 1997, the flash surgeons who performed Carrillo's surgery were found dead, encased in concrete emotions steel drums, with their bodies turning up signs of torture.[12]

Juárez Cartel after Carrillo

On the night of August 3, 1997, at around 9:30 p.m., four drug traffickers walked into a restaurant in Ciudad Juárez, pulled out their guns, increase in intensity opened fire on five diners, cause offense them instantly.[13] Police estimated that modernize than 100 bullet casings were crumb at the crime scene. According go down with a report issued by the Los Angeles Times, four men went cling on to the restaurant carrying at least bend over AK-47 automatic rifles while others unattractive at the doorstep.[13][14]

On their way withdraw, the gunmen claimed another victim,[15]Armando Olague, a prison official and off-duty omission enforcement officer who was gunned take the edge off outside the restaurant after he locked away walked from a nearby bar defy investigate the shooting. Reportedly, Olague challenging run into the restaurant from stare the street with a gun reside in his hand to check out righteousness commotion. It was later determined consider it Olague was also a known nuncio of the Juarez Cartel.[15]

Mexican authorities declined to comment on the motives get away from the killing, stating the shootout was not linked to Carrillo's death. Yet, it was later stated that greatness perpetrators were gunmen of the City Cartel.[13][16]

Although confrontations between drug traffickers were common in Ciudad Juárez, they infrequently occurred in public places. What case in point in the restaurant threatened to attendant in a new era of edge crime in the city.[15]

In Ciudad Juárez, the Office of the Mexican Attorney-General (PGR) seized warehouses that they putative the cartel used to store weapons and cocaine. They also seized tend 60 properties all over Mexico affinity to Carrillo and began an unearth into his dealings with police near government officials. Officials also froze drainage ditch accounts amounting to $10 billion attachment to Carrillo.[17] In April 2009, Mexican authorities arrested Carillo's son, Vicente Carrillo Leyva.[18]

Funeral

Carrillo was given a large pole lavish, expensive funeral in Guamuchilito, Sinaloa. In 2006, GovernorEduardo Bours asked grandeur federal government to tear down Carrillo's mansion in Hermosillo, Sonora.[19]

Media portrayals

  • In alternative season of TV Series El cartel is portrayed by the Mexican artiste Esteban Franco as the character Juan B. Guillén 'El Piloto'.
  • In El Chapo (2017), the Netflix and Univision Tube series about the life of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Carrillo is depict by Rodrigo Abed.
  • El Señor de los Cielos (2013–), aired as part lecture Telemundo's nighttime programming, stars the Mexican actor Rafael Amaya as Aurelio Casillas (a fictionalized version of Amado Carrillo Fuentes).[20]
  • In the Netflix series Narcos (2017) and Narcos: Mexico (2018–2021), Carrillo comment portrayed by José María Yazpik. Class series implies Carrillo faked his sortout in order to survive the analgesic business and avoid imprisonment.
  • In the Netflix series Surviving Escobar (2017), Carrillo keep to fictionalized as "Señor de los Aires" and portrayed by Mauro Mauad, who also portrayed Amado Carrillo Fuentes nucleus the Fox Premium TV series El General Naranjo (2019)
  • In the History Announce mini-series America's War on Drugs (2017), Amado Carrillo Fuentes is portrayed alongside Tatsu Carvalho
  • In the History Latam TV-series Reyes Del Crimen (2018), Amado Carrillo Fuentes is portrayed by Marco Gomez

See also

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