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Introduction
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a Mexican drug smuggler who led the Juárez Cartel. Known as the El Señor de Los Cielos (The Lord of the Skies) for his sophisticated air smuggling network using a fleet of private jets, he was one of Mexico‘s most powerful drug lords at the height of his career, having amassed a fortune of over $25 billion, rivalling Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s Age
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was born in Sinaloa On December 17 1956. He was the nephew of Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca Carrillo, one of the founders of the powerful Guadalajara Cartel. He grew up in poverty along with his brother Vicente. He worked in the Dirección Federal de Seguridad for two years, gained a pilot’s license and purchased his first aeroplane. He also became involved in the marijuana trafficking business, and by 1980 had enough influence to run a small, heavily armed gang.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes Height, Weight & Measurement
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Amado Carrillo Fuentes Jr Wiki/Biography
Like his mentor Felix Gallardo, Amado was shrewd and highly ambitious. He pioneered using private jets to fly cocaine across Mexico, revolutionizing his cartel. Amado was a highly astute cartel leader and saw the potential of cocaine way before Caro Quintero, causing Felix to favour him instead of Caro Quintero. Amado was very laid back, likeable, and rarely made enemies while working under Félix Gallardo, unlike Chapo or Palma Salazar. However, despite this, as Acosta had noted, Amado lacked loyalty much like Félix Gallardo. Amado worked with Félix despite knowing that Félix betrayed his uncle, and crossed Pacho Herrera despite forming a close friendship with him in order to work with the Norte del Valle cartel. This was ultimately demonstrated when he began plotting the overthrowing of Félix Gallardo in the late 1980s.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s net worth is estimated at around $25 billion as of 2022.
Despite this, Félix, while imprisoned, recognized that Amado would be the wealthiest and most powerful drug trafficker Mexico has ever known (a prediction which came true). This is further proved by the fact that in 1994, the Cali cartel paid Amado in cocaine, something which Félix unsuccessfully tried to achieve. Although Amado regularly relies on his men to do jobs for him, he’s not unwilling to do them himself. Having been a pilot before, Amado knows how to fly planes, having flown planes that smuggled narcotics from Colombia to Mexico. He’s also accustomed to using guns but doesn’t frequent them unless he’s under attack.
| Born | Amado Carrillo Fuentes December 17, 1956 Guamuchilito, Navolato, Sinaloa, Mexico |
| Died | July 4, 1997 (aged 40)Mexico City, Mexico |
| Other names | El Señor de los Cielos |
| Occupation | Drug lord |
| Employer | Head of Juárez Cartel |
| Predecessor | Rafael Aguilar Guajardo |
| Successor | Vicente Carrillo Fuentes |
| Children | Vicente Carrillo Leyva |
| Relatives | Ernesto Fonseca CarrilloVicente Carrillo |
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s Ethnicity
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Amado Carrillo Fuentes Career
Fuentes was the head of the Juarez Cartel, achieving this title after killing former boss and friend Rafael Aguilar Guajardo. He made immense amounts of money weekly, and had many real estate holdings. He used high-tech surveillance devices during his reign as Juarez Cartel head in order to spy on other cartel leaders. He had the idea to move his industry to the United States because he was so powerful. Fuentes died in 1997 following a very complicated plastic surgery. He had intended to change his appearance because the US and Mexico were tracking him. The surgery went wrong, however, and Fuentes’ attempt to evade the DEA and Mexican authorities was unsuccessful; he perished instead. Thus ended the reign of the Lord of the Skies.
After Félix Gallardo’s disappearance, Benjamín called a meeting in Ensemada, which Carrillo attended, along with Acosta, Chapo, Ramon, Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix and Isabella Bautista. Benjamín proposed the organization to forget the arrests of the three leaders and continue smuggling, but he is interrupted when soldiers surrounded the compound, and Félix returned with a military escort to retake control of his organization. After the smugglers disperse, Amado told Félix that he is looking forward to working under Félix, subtly hinting that he is overlooking Félix’s role in his uncle’s arrest. In order to establish Amado’s aerial smuggling network, Félix Gallardo began funding the construction of two airstrips in Juárez. However, work on the airstrips came to a complete standstill after Acosta’s mysterious disappearance.
Upon Rafael Aguilar Guajardo’s order, Amado began looking for Acosta, and was told that he was on the other side of the border. Amado crossed into the United States, and located his mentor, now living with Mimi Webb Miller, an American rancher, and contemplated retirement. Acosta attempted to teach Amado about honor and morality, by warring against Fermín Arévalo who bailed Acosta out of prison when Acosta was 16 years old. Marco de Haro, Acosta’s chief-of-security, killed one of Arévalo’s sons after Acosta suspected them of stealing from him. Arévalo responded by sending a man to kill Acosta, but Acosta survived the attack. Pablo, Amado and Marco barge into the hospital where the assassin was being treated, and take him to the middle of a desert, where Marco began beating him, forcing the assassin to reveal that Arévalo paid him 2,500 pesos to kill Acosta. Acosta gathered a crew of heavily armed men to find and kill Arévalo.
However, they discover that Arévalo wasn’t there in his ranch, and instead find his wife Antonia. On their way back, their convoy is ambushed by Arévalo and his men. While Amado was distracted by the gunfight, Arévalo managed to sneak up behind and critically wound Acosta. Before he could fire the killing shot, he is shot dead by Amado. Acosta returned to Mexico and met with Amado over dinner, bringing Mimi along with him. While Acosta went out to smoke, Mimi requested Amado to convince Acosta to retire; so that he could take over the Juárez plaza. Amado denied, saying that he would be unable to stop Miguel’s retaliation in case of Acosta’s retirement, and felt that Acosta would be safer in Juárez as opposed to the United States.
Meanwhile, Miguel wanted Amado to lead the cartel’s transportation after Juan Matta-Ballesteros’ arrest. He invited him to a meeting with Hélmer Herrera of the Cali cartel, to renegotiate terms of their agreement after Miguel won the support of the Gulf cartel, effectively monopolizing the Mexican smuggling industry. However, Juan Nepomuceno Guerra did not show up to the meeting, and Herrera informed him that his partners made a separate deal with the Gulf cartel, destroying Miguel’s plan on dominating the Cali Cartel. In a desperate action to keep his organization relevant, Miguel told Herrera that he could transport 70 tons of cocaine in a day. The Colombians accept, and Miguel orders Amado to establish his air smuggling network.
Amado later went to Belize to purchase six Boeing 727s from a bankrupt Belizean airline. The newly purchased jets were flown to an airfield in Chiapas, and were stripped of the seats and other commercial airline amenities to make space for 70 tons of cocaine.
Acosta heard of Miguel attempting to smuggle 70 tons of cocaine, and sensed that the Guadalajara cartel was becoming weak. On his wife’s insistence, he spoke to Walt Breslin about a possible witness protection program in the United States, but backed out and decided to give an interview to the American press about his relationship with the Guadalajara cartel. The interview angered officials on both sides of the border, and Acosta is killed in a joint MFJP-FBI raid on his hideout in Santa Elena.
The day before Acosta’s death, Amado visited him and requested him to accept his help. Acosta mocked him, and said that he’d rather die as a bandido than as a rat. He then gave back the Rolex he received from Amado seven years ago; saying that he knew it was a fake all along. Amado began reconsidering his decision to work under Félix, as he felt that Félix might betray him in a whim for his own gains, just like he did to his uncle and Acosta.
However, the day before the delivery is to be made, one of the planes developed an electrical problem.
Amado and one of his men spent the night stripping the plane apart, until they come across a tracker placed in the cockpit console. Knowing that his shipment is being tracked, he tells Miguel that he is delaying the shipment by a day, and set up an ambush while resulted in the death of several mercenaries hired by the DEA. The next day, the cocaine is flown from Chiapas to Juárez, and is split and given to all the plazas to smuggle it to the United States. Working under Aguilar, Amado handled transportation for the newly formed Juárez Cartel. Sometime between 1989 and 1991, he married Marisol Ortiz, and the couple had their first child Anna in 1991. As Amado personally flew some shipments of cocaine across the country, he was unable to devote time to his family, and the couple separated with Anna living with her mother.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes Family
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was born on December 17th of 1956 in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa. He was raised alongside eleven siblings in a family with close ties to the Guadalajara Cartel through his uncle, who was the leader of the organization at one point. Fuentes’ uncle, Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseca Carrillo, brought him into the cartel at a young age soon made him a high-ranking lieutenant. Fuentes later brought his brothers and his son into the cartel.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s Wife
According to our records, Amado Carrillo Fuentes married to Sonia Barragan Perez. As of January 12, 2023, Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s is not dating anyone. Fuentes’ wife survived the violence that followed her husband’s death, as did his son, Vicente Carrillo Leyva. Unfortunately, his son was already heavily involved in the drug trade at the time of his father’s passing, and he was arrested along with many of Fuentes’ associates. To the credit of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, he had specifically told his son not to get involved in the drug business and even sent him to Mexico’s most prestigious universities. However, Vicente disregarded his father’s advice and later faced charges for money-laundering, firearms possession, and drug trafficking after his father’s death.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s Net worth
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a prolific Mexican drug lord who had a peak net worth of $25 billion. Due to his atmospheric level of wealth, it’s not surprising that Fuentes was (and still is) considered to be one of the most powerful drug lords of all time. He was known for employing new, sophisticated technology in his criminal operations, particularly in regard to the use of aircraft to transport large quantities of cocaine. In 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died after a botched plastic surgery operation.
| Net Worth | $25 Billion |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Criminal |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living In own house |
FAQs about Amado Carrillo Fuentes
What happened to Amado Carrillo Fuentes?
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.
How rich was Amado Carrillo Fuentes?
Amado Carrillo Fuentes Net Worth: Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a prolific Mexican drug lord who had a peak net worth of $25 billion. Due to his atmospheric level of wealth, it’s not surprising that Fuentes was (and still is) considered to be one of the most powerful drug lords of all time.
Who was Amado Carrillo Fuentes right hand man?
Manny (died 1997) was Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s assistant and a member of the Juárez cartel. Manny worked from Amado since the mid-1980s, and became Amado’s right-hand man after the establishment of the Juárez cartel in 1989.
Did Amado Carrillo betray Pacho Herrera?
Amado worked with Félix despite knowing that Félix betrayed his uncle, and betrayed Pacho Herrera despite forming a close friendship with him in order to work with the Norte del Valle cartel. This was ultimately demonstrated when he began plotting the overthrowing of Félix Gallardo in the late 1980s.
Conclusion
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, born December 17th, 1956 in Guamúchil, Sinaloa, was a powerful drug trafficker in Mexico reckoned to be worth twenty-five billion dollars. He was called “The Lord of the Skies” during the height of his power.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes’s net worth is estimated to be around $25 billion as of 2022.
This name stemmed from the fact that he was the first drug lord to use private planes to transport cocaine worldwide, and owned many planes, including 30 Boeing 727s. His house was called “The Palace of a Thousand and One Night,” a Middle-eastern-style house.
