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Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/ fuˈɛntəs /; December 17, 1956 – July 7, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control 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 of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport ...
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- The Surgery That Killed Amado Carrillo Fuentes
- The Aftermath of Amado Carrillo Fuentes’ Death
Born in the small village of Guamuchilito in Sinaloa, Mexico, on Dec. 17, 1956, Amado Carrillo Fuentes grew up surrounded by agriculture — and drugs. Though his father was a modest landowner, his uncle, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, led the Guadalajara cartel. Around the age of 12, Carrillo announced that he was leaving his parents and 10 siblings to m...
On July 4, 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes checked into a private Mexico City clinic under the alias Antonio Flores Montes. For eight hours, he underwent surgery to drastically alter his face and remove 3.5 gallons of fat from his body. At first, it seemed that the procedure had gone off without a hitch. Nurses wheeled Carrillo to Room 407 in the Sant...
The sudden death of Amado Carrillo Fuentes left a power vacuum. After the botched surgery, his top lieutenants battled each other to fill his shoes, as his old rivals fought to supplant the powerful Juarez cartel. Out of the fray, Carrillo’s younger brother Vicente Carrillo Fuentes — called “The Viceroy” — seized power. But he couldn’t stop the car...
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Nov 6, 2021 · Amado's sister, Alicia Carrillo Fuentes (L), and other family members mourn Amado's death at the home of his mother. Huge wreaths were delivered, including some by other alleged drug barons.
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- Henry Blodget
Jul 21, 2015 · (12 Jul 1997) T/I 10:14:54A simple funeral for druglord Amado Carrillo Fuentes was held onFriday (11/7) in Guamuchilito, Mexico, approximately 650 milesnorth...
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Jul 21, 2015 · (11 Jul 1997) Natural Sound The family of the late Mexican drug lord, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, returned home with his body on Thursday to bury almost a week ...
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Jul 13, 1997 · Carrillo: Chronicle of a Death Not Told. Francisco Goldman is a novelist whose most recent book is "The Ordinary Seaman" (Grove-Atlantic) Thursday, the peripatetic, presumed corpse of Amado ...
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Jul 12, 1997 · July 12, 1997 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. MEXICO CITY —. His death shrouded in as much mystery as his life, Mexican drug baron Amado Carrillo Fuentes was laid to rest Friday in the village of ...
