The death of the “Lord of the Skies” and the myth that surrounded him more than 25 years later

Amado Carrillo Fuentes, in one of the few known photos of his youth (Photo: File)

More than 25 years ago, on July 4, 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes allegedly underwent facial reconstruction and liposuction in a Mexico City hospital with the aim of not being recognized, but in the middle of the operating room the state of health of the drug dealer would have been complicated.

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From that moment, and more than two and a half decades later, no one has been certain about the true circumstances surrounding the death of El Señor de los Cielos. A version pointed out that he had given him a cardiac arrest after eight hours of operation, but presumably there were witnesses who saw them leave the operating room alive.

Even today, versions are circulating to the effect that the former leader of the powerful Juárez Cartel would have reached an agreement with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and that he currently lives with another identity and another face somewhere in Chile or Argentina.

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The capo, nicknamed that way because the DEA claimed that he owned at least 30 aircraft, including some Boeing 727s, would have gone to the Santa Mónica hospital, located in Polanco, one of the most exclusive areas of Mexico City, 25 years ago. undergo a series of surgeries by a renowned Colombian doctor named Ricardo Reyes.

According to the autopsy report that was released at the time, the Sinaloan drug trafficker died after the operation “due to the residual presence of anesthetic-type pharmacological agents.”

Amado Carrillo Fuentes (File)

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The death of The Lord of the Skies was declared at 6 in the morning, in room 407, where Amado was completely alone. The next 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 then Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) reported in a statement that since the night of July 4 it had received reports that El Señor de los Cielos had died. The information was endorsed by the DEA, despite the fact that they never saw the body.

A week later his body was publicly displayed in a coffin. On her face there was a black mustache that raised suspicions. Didn’t they have to shave him for the surgery? That was when the media began to consider the option that he would have been a double and that the real Carrillo Fuentes had deceived the authorities and rivals.

His death certificate, at the Santa Mónica hospital, was under the false name Antonio Flores Montes. (Archive)

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

Suspicions were fueled two years later, in 1999, by the journalist José Alfredo Andrade Bojórquez, in his book Desde Navolato vengo: 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.

In a request for information, journalist Omar Sánchez de Tagle, from Animal Político, asked the PGR for the results of the histopathological studies carried out on the kidney, liver, lung, brain, cerebellum, marrow, myocardium, spleen and pancreas of the corpse analyzed. in July 1997 and DNA identity results.

The Special Deputy Prosecutor for Organized Crime Investigations (SEIDO) replied that there was no expert or DNA evidence to publicly know the cause and assured that 7 different areas of the PGR affirm that there are no documents on prior investigations, circumstantial records or open investigations that involved the leader of the Juárez Cartel.

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