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Amado Carrillo Fuentes met a grim end when he lost his life during plastic surgery 25 years ago, while trying to make himself unrecognizable to others.
25 years ago today (July 7, 1997), infamous cartel boss Amado Carrillo Fuentes – otherwise known as ‘The Lord of the Skies’ died while attempting to drastically change the appearance of his face.
His death is one of the strangest of a drug lord.
Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, Amado first worked for his uncle Ernesto ‘Don Neto’ Fonseca Carrillo, who at the time ran the Guadalajara Cartel.
Amado quickly climbed the career ladder in the criminal underworld.
In 1993, he assassinated Rafael Aguilar Guajardo to take control of the Juarez Cartel, which by 1989 had eliminated many of the notorious rival trafficking organizations.
His nickname ‘Lord of the Skies’ came as Amado was the first trafficker to set up his own fleet of planes to traffic cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and then to the US.
Unlike other Mexican traffickers of the time who became household names in the media such as Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, Amado was one of the most mysterious in Mexico, writes the daily Washington Post.
After his death, the investigators wrote: “He lived unspotted – no noisy gunfights, no night life or extravagance in discotheques.”
“Only a few images of him have appeared in the media, he was a new breed of trafficker, a drug addict who behaved like a businessman.”
His accumulated wealth would reach up to $25 million, making him a ‘not very interesting’ target for the major US anti-drug agencies.
It was precisely this desire to remain anonymous and undetectable that led him to go on July 4, 1997 to a private clinic in Mexico City for plastic surgery, under the false name ‘Antonio Flores Montes’.
There, two plastic surgeons undertook to change his face and appearance by removing about 2 kg of fat from his body.
Although it is not very clear what happened during the surgery, the trafficker was pronounced dead three days after arriving there.
US officials said he died of a heart attack, but what caused it remains a mystery. While to quell the rumors of a staged death, the authorities also published photos of his body.
Amado’s death would lead to a series of eliminations that began with the two doctors who operated on him, whose bodies were found encased in concrete on November 7, 1997.
Washington Post writes that their bodies showed signs of torture and burning, but at the time of the brutal wars of the distribution cartels the news was attributed to the ‘ordinary’ wave of criminality.
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