Martha Venus Cáceres: who was the Cuban who conquered the heart of the “Lord of the Skies”

Actress Yessica Borroto gave life to the lover of the leader of the Juarez Cartel

Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the drug trafficker played by actor José María Yazpik in the series Narcos: Mexico, supposedly alone He was married in his entire life to only one woman: Sonia Barragán. However, as portrayed in the production of Netflix, It is known that the leader of the powerful Juarez Cartel had an affair with a Cuban citizen named Martha Venus Cáceres.

According to information provided by the Cuban government to the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in 1997, “Carrillo Fuentes was emotionally related” to Cáceres. It is even presumed that she – unlike what is exposed in the fiction series – did not know the true identity of the Lord of the Skies and I simply knew him as Juan Antonio Arriaga, a wealthy Mexican businessman who was addressed by some as The Patroncito.

In 1997, the Mexican government formally requested information from Cuba on the activities of the Sinaloan capo, who presumably used the Caribbean island as a base for his operations. In a statement released that year, the attorney general’s office claimed to have evidence – airline tickets and testimonies from those close to Carrillo Fuentes – which attested that the drug trafficker traveled to Cuba on several occasions, the last a few days before his alleged death. in an operating room in Mexico City.

According to the information gathered by the agency, Carrillo Fuentes had “a second wife and a daughter on the island, whom he visited regularly.”

A Mexican official told the newspaper Miami Herald that Amado Carrillo came to reside in a Cuban government protocol house located in the El Vedado neighborhood, in Havana. According to information released by the DEA in 2001, the kingpin would have paid millions of dollars to the Cuban government to use the island as a refuge. Alejandro Bernal Madrigal, one of the lieutenants of the Lord of the SkiesHe would have even affirmed that Carrillo spent long periods on the island with Cáceres in complete privacy.

“He stayed there, the compadre (Amado Carillo) stayed there in Cuba. If you want to get to Cuba and stay living there in peace, five million dollars to Fidel. And nobody touches you. But that is not from now, it is for a lifetime, “said the Colombian drug trafficker.

Suspicious death

Amado Carrillo (Art Photo: Steve Allen / Infobae)

On July 3, 1997, Antonio Flores Montes arrived at the Santa Mónica hospital, located in Polanco, one of the most exclusive areas of Mexico City, to undergo precisely these surgical interventions by a renowned Colombian doctor named Ricardo Reyes. .

The doctor knew that it was actually Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died after the operation “due to the residual presence of anesthetic-type pharmacological agents,” according to the autopsy report released at the time.

His death was declared at 6 a.m., in room 407, where Amado was completely alone.

The following day, his body was transferred to the García López Funeral Home, one of the most exclusive in the Mexican capital, which would be in charge of transferring Antonio Flores Montes, 42, originally from Zacatecas, to Culiacán and later to Badiraguato, according to his death certificate.

That same afternoon, the PGR reported in a statement that since July 4 at night, it received reports that “The Lord of the Skies” had died. The information was endorsed by the DEA, even without seeing the body.

His body was publicly displayed a week later, in the coffin. His face protruded the black mustache that aroused suspicion: Didn’t they have to shave it for surgery? Wondered the press. Assumptions about a double arose. It was one of Carrillo Fuentes’s strategies to evade the authorities and his rivals.

The disappearance of a commander of the District Judicial Police, José Luis Rodríguez “El Chiquilín”, to whom the press assigned a suspect similar to Amado Carrillo, coincided in those days. In addition, nothing was known about him since a few days before the death of the kingpin.

Suspicions were fueled two years later, in 1999, by the journalist José Alfredo Andrade Bojórquez, in his book From Navolato I come: biography of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, in which he described the disappearances of those who had suggested that Amado Carrillo Fuentes was not dead. The author also disappeared in November of that same year.

More than 20 years after the “death” of Amado, no one knows what really happened.

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