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Amado Carrillo Fuentes was born on 17 December, 1956 in Guamuchilito, Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico, is a Mexican drug lord (1956-1997). Discover Amado Carrillo Fuentes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

Popular As Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Occupation Drug lord
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 17 December, 1956
Birthday 17 December
Birthplace Guamuchilito, Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico
Date of death 7 July, 1997
Died Place Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality Mexico

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Who Is Amado Carrillo Fuentes's Wife?

His wife is Sonia Barragan Perez (m. ?–1997)

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Children Vicente Carrillo Leyva

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1956

Amado Carrillo Fuentes (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.

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 drugs.

He was also known for laundering money via Colombia, to finance this fleet.

1986

Carrillo's father died in April 1986.

1989

Carrillo's brother, Cipriano Carrillo Fuentes, died in 1989 under mysterious circumstances.

Initially, Carrillo was part of the Guadalajara Cartel, sent to Ojinaga, Chihuahua to oversee the cocaine shipments of his uncle, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo ("Don Neto"), and to learn about border operations from Pablo Acosta Villarreal ("El Zorro de Ojinaga"; "The Ojinaga Fox") and Rafael Aguilar Guajardo.

Later, Carrillo worked with Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel smuggling drugs from Colombia to Mexico and the United States.

He also worked with "El Chapo" (Joaquín Guzmán Loera), the Arellano Félix family, and the Beltrán Leyva organization.

During his tenure, Carrillo reportedly built a multibillion-dollar drug empire.

It was estimated that he may have made over $25 billion in revenue over the course of his career.

The pressure to capture Carrillo intensified among U.S. and Mexican authorities after people in Morelos state began silent marches against governor Jorge Carrillo Olea and his presumed complacency with drug-related violence.

Carrillo Fuentes owned a house three blocks from the governor's official residence and regularly held narco-fiestas in the municipality of Tetecala.

1997

He died in July 1997, in a Mexican hospital, after undergoing extensive plastic surgery to change his appearance.

In his final days, Carrillo was being tracked by Mexican and U.S. authorities.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was assessed to be worth around $25 billion (about $40 billion by the present appraisals) at the time of death.

Carrillo was born to Walter Vicente Carrillo Vega and 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 business under the tutelage of his uncle Ernesto and later brought in his brothers, and eventually his son Vicente José Carrillo Leyva.

Governor Carrillo Olea was forced to resign and was arrested; this type of pressure may have convinced Carrillo Fuentes to undergo facial plastic surgery and abdominal surgery liposuction to change his appearance on July 4, 1997, at Santa Mónica Hospital in Mexico City.

However, during the operation, he died of complications apparently caused either by a certain medication or a malfunctioning respirator (there is very little paperwork regarding his death).

Two of Carrillo Fuentes's bodyguards were in the operating room during the procedure.

On November 7, 1997, the two surgeons who performed Carrillo's surgery were found dead, encased in concrete inside steel drums, with their bodies showing signs of torture.

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, and opened fire on five diners, killing them instantly.

Police estimated that more than 100 bullet casings were found at the crime scene.

According to a report issued by the Los Angeles Times, four men went to the restaurant carrying at least two AK-47 automatic rifles while others stood at the doorstep.

On their way out, the gunmen claimed another victim, Armando Olague, a prison official and off-duty law enforcement officer who was gunned down outside the restaurant after he had walked from a nearby bar to investigate the shooting.

Reportedly, Olague had run into the restaurant from across the street with a gun in his hand to check out the commotion.

It was later determined that Olague was also a known lieutenant of the Juarez Cartel.

Mexican authorities declined to comment on the motives behind the killing, stating the shootout was not linked to Carrillo's death.

Nonetheless, it was later stated that the perpetrators were gunmen of the Tijuana Cartel.

Although confrontations between narcotraficantes were common in Ciudad Juárez, they rarely occurred in public places.

What happened in the restaurant threatened to usher in a new era of border crime in the city.

In Ciudad Juárez, the Office of the Mexican Attorney-General (PGR) seized warehouses that they believed the cartel used to store weapons and cocaine.

They also seized over 60 properties all over Mexico belonging to Carrillo and began an investigation into his dealings with police and government officials.

Officials also froze bank accounts amounting to $10 billion belonging to Carrillo.

2006

In 2006, Governor Eduardo Bours asked the federal government to tear down Carrillo's mansion in Hermosillo, Sonora.

2009

In April 2009, Mexican authorities arrested Carillo's son, Vicente Carrillo Leyva.

Carrillo was given a large and lavish, expensive funeral in Guamuchilito, Sinaloa.