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Amado Carrillo Fuentes (/ f u ˈ ɛ n t ə s /; December 17, 1954 – July 5, 1997) was a Mexican drug lord. He seized control of the Juárez Cartel after assassinating his boss Rafael Aguilar Guajardo .
Meza Flores (known in the criminal world as El Chapo Isidro) was born on June 19, 1982, in Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico. [3] [1] He began his criminal career in the 1990s, at first working for the Juárez Cartel under the tutelage of the then-leader Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
At that point, his old organization broke up into three factions: the Tijuana Cartel led by his nephews, the Arellano Félix brothers, the Juarez Cartel, led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and the Sinaloa Cartel, run by former lieutenants Héctor Luis Palma Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. El Chapo.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a smart man. He was also a man who was running out of time in the series finale of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico. Amado raced against the clock, warring cartels, the law ...
He was the mentor and business partner of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, the "Lord of the Skies", who took over after Acosta's death. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He made his operation base in the border town of Ojinaga , Chihuahua , Mexico, and had his greatest power in the period around 1984–1986.
[50] [51] The natural successor was his brother Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, who appointed his brother Rodolfo, his nephew Vicente Carrillo Leyva, and others as part of his faction. [52] [53] Esparragoza Moreno and others within the cartel, however, disagreed with the imposition of Carrillo Fuentes as the leader. [54]
Having taken over from Acosta, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo made Amado Carrillo Fuentes his second-in-command. Mexican police reported that Carlos Maya Castillo, an official also working at the National Security and Investigation Center , assisted Aguilar with information and reservations, provided him with cell phones, and recruited corrupt police ...
He was the successor of Coronel Villarreal and top leader of La Corona Cartel, a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated gang founded between late 2012 and early 2013. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] His nephew and regional cartel leader in Durango , Humberto Rodríguez Coronel ("El Canelo"), was arrested by the Navy on 24 March 2013. [ 17 ]