Is the Lord of the Skies still alive?

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has assured that there is no expert evidence or DNA to corroborate the death of the capo.

The PGR has confirmed to the Mexican newspaper ‘Animal Politico’ that the only information available to the office about Amado Carrillo are two press releases that narrate “rumors” about his death and two more that detail the investigations and the results with which the public ministry confirmed his death.

Drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes, founder of the Juárez cartel and known as ‘The Lord of the Skies’, was declared dead by Mexican authorities on July 4, 1997 at the hospital in Santa Monica, Mexico, due to surgery. plastic and liposuction to which he underwent under the name of Antonio Flores Montes.

The alleged Antonio Flores neither existed nor registered, he did not even request the only suite that the hospital had, but stayed in one of the simplest rooms.

On July 4, 1977, ‘the Lord of the Skies’ officially died at the Santa Mónica hospital, located on Temístocles street, in the Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, at six in the morning, in room 407, totally alone, without company, without anyone by his side, not a sister, not a lover, not a mistress, not a servant, not a single guard.

The day before, in said hospital, a 42-year-old subject whose name was Antonio Flores Montes was registered, who said he was originally from Zacatecas, although he offered false addresses that journalistic investigations demonstrated at the time; He was assigned to room 407 and underwent surgery on July 3. The patient underwent two operations: liposuction and extensive facial surgery, for which he was on the operating table for eight hours and 24 hours later his death was declared a victim of a myocardial attack, at exactly 4:00 am on the 4th of July 1997, according to the death certificate of the Civil Registry of the Federal District.

This corpse was shown publicly a week later, but despite the facial surgery to which the drug trafficker underwent and which had to shave off his mustache, the body presented inside the coffin sported a very black mustache. Amado’s sister, Aurora Carrillo Fuentes, recognized the body of the subject who was moved to the amphitheater of the Capillas Funerales San Martín, in Culiacán (state of Sinaloa). The deceased was transported on Aeroméxico Flight 100.

The first official report that mentioned the death of the ‘Lord of the Skies’, was the one indicated by the United States where, even, the second most important man in the DEA, Jim Milford, assured the local press that “he bet his badge that the body was Amado Carrillo Fuentes”. Two days later, the Government of Mexico made official the death of the narco at 41 years of age.

No evidence verifying death

In September 2014, ‘Animal Politico’ requested from the PGR the results of the histopathological studies carried out on the kidney, liver, lung, brain, cerebellum, spinal cord, myocardium, spleen and pancreas of the corpse analyzed in July 1997, as well as the results of the DNA identity of the then leader of the Juárez Cartel and conclusions of the medical experts.

The response provided by the Mexican authorities was as follows: “after having carried out an exhaustive and thorough search of the request, no record was found regarding the information required.” The PGR continued on the preliminary investigations and investigations initiated against Amado Carrillo Fuentes and ruled: “they are nonexistent.”

The conclusions of the forensic pathologist and the reconstructive plastic surgeon, attached to the Central Military Hospital, dependent on the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), indicated that Carrillo Fuentes died as a result of depression of the respiratory centers due to the residual presence of pharmacological agents of anesthetic type. However, the tests did confirm the death of the three plastic surgeons, who used to operate on the capo, found on the Autopista del Sol that connects the capital with Acapulco (Guerreo), on November 2, 1997. The bodies revealed signs of torture : gouged out eyes and broken bones.

The origin of ‘The Lord of the Skies’

Amadeo Carrillo Fuentes was born in Guamuchilito, a town belonging to the municipality of Novolato (in Sinaloa). He is the nephew of Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, nicknamed ‘Don Neto’, narco of the first Mexican cartel, ‘Guadalajara’, and partner of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, their founder and well nicknamed ‘Boss of Bosses’ or ‘The Godfather’ ‘. It was said that the former leader of the ‘Juárez’ cartel was a cautious, patient, cunning man who exchanged blood for the large investment of five million dollars a month in bribes for the police, officials and military of the United States. United Mexicans. And the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) stated that he came to enter 200 million dollars a week.

He transported cocaine from Colombia to Mexico with Boeing 727 planes and for the corresponding section between Mexico and the United States he used the Air Taxi company of the North Center, Aerotaxis Taxceno, of which Carrillo Fuentes was its main shareholder. This is how the pseudonym was born: ‘the Lord of the Skies’.

Santa Monica Hospital and its partners

The Santa Mónica Hospital, located in the capital of the Republic, is a small, well-equipped center with four floors and few rooms, equipped with a suite, and used mainly by a “selective” clientele.

In 1997 the majority partner of the hospital was Diego Fernández de Cevallos, the “boss”, known for many of his actions in the Senate as well as for his relationship with the crimes committed in the six-year term of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. His participation as a shareholder in a hospital was incongruous.