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Amado Carrillo Fuentes

1956 - 1997

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Amado Carrillo Fuentes (; 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. Amado Carrillo became known as "El Señor de Los Cielos" ("The Lord of the Skies"), because of the large fleet of jets he used to transport drugs. He was also known for laundering money via Colombia, to finance this fleet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amado Carrillo Fuentes is the 30th most popular mafioso (down from 29th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Mexican Mafioso.

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Among MAFIOSOS

Among mafiosos, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 30 out of 70. Before him are Ta Mok, Ned Kelly, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Vito Cascio Ferro, Lepke Buchalter, and Khun Sa. After him are Sundance Kid, Joe Masseria, Salvatore Giuliano, Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Richard Hauptmann, and Mickey Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 73. Before him are Milan Babić, Iveta Radičová, El Risitas, Georg Gänswein, Catherine Ashton, and Guido van Rossum. After him are Larry Bird, Walter Salles, Boris Trajkovski, David Sassoli, Alexey Pajitnov, and Jens Fink-Jensen. Among people deceased in 1997, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 78. Before him are Roland Topor, Mate Boban, Georg Solti, Nikolai Tikhonov, Alparslan Türkeş, and Stig Anderson. After him are Barbara, Héctor Yazalde, Ernst Wilimowski, Virgilio Barco Vargas, Edward Mulhare, and Samuel Fuller.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 68 out of 729. Before him are Kiki Camarena (1947), Miguel de la Madrid (1934), Katy Jurado (1924), Antonio Carbajal (1929), Subcomandante Marcos (1957), and Ricardo Montalbán (1920). After him are Manuel Ávila Camacho (1897), Julia Pastrana (1834), Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1911), Itzcoatl (1380), Vicente Fernández (1940), and Lila Downs (1968).

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Among MAFIOSOS In Mexico

Among mafiosos born in Mexico, Amado Carrillo Fuentes ranks 4. Before him are Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946), and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada (1948).

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