When it comes to the topic of drug lords, I think we can all agree that all of them are sociopaths. They don’t care who they kill as long as they get what they want. You have heard of Al Capone, Pablo Escobar, “El Chapo” Guzman, and Rafael Caro Quintero. But if you’ve never heard of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, or “Lord of the Skies”, you definitely should learn more about him. I like him a lot more than the ones I mentioned because he was sneaky and ridiculously smart about his moves even if they were malicious. Carrillo was born in Sinaloa, Mexico in 1956. His brother, Vicente, and Carrillo himself started working in the cartel business because of their uncle. The most important thing about this drug lord is what he was known for.
He laundered money in Colombia to fund the large fleet of jets that he used to transport drugs from one place to another. And he also transported a lot of cocaine to the United States. That is how he got his infamous name. He was the head of the Juárez Cartel and part of the Guadalajara Cartel. Carrillo’s estimated net worth was 25 billion in US dollars. The Mexican government was on his tail for a very long time until his death in July 1997. His medical team attempted plastic surgery on Carrillo because he wanted to change his appearance. After his death, Mexican authorities found the body of Jaime Godoy, who might have been one of the doctors who performed surgery on the drug lord, along with two other bodies. They were buried inside oil drums in Mexico City. The bodies showed signs of torture. Two of them were strangled and one was shot, according to an old article I found on The Los Angeles Times. They most likely got murdered because they failed to save Carrillo during the surgery. In 2014, his brother, Vicente, got arrested in the city of Torreón in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Telemundo created a TV series about his life called, El Señor De Los Cielos. If you’ve never watched it, I suggest you watch Season 1 and 2 because they’re the best ones. Carrillo fathered many, many children during his lifetime, of course. It’s the lifestyle of the narco. Drug lords like him fascinate me, but not for the wrong reasons. The reason why I find it so interesting to investigate famous and rising drug lords is because of how smart they are. They are intelligent but use it to make bad decisions and eventually ruin their country by corrupting the government. It’s 2016, and corruption still exists everywhere, including Mexico. No matter how much a president says that he or she will try to change the government in their country, the cartels are always going to pose a threat and control everyone who is a politician, official, or anyone else that is strongly involved with the connections of the president. Pablo Escobar is one riveting criminal and one of the most famous ones out there, but I will always consider Carrillo’s story to be a little more different than the rest.
