Word: carrillo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coffin lined with silk. Not all visitors to the funeral home could be described as aggrieved, however. Among the arrivals were authorities from the Mexican attorney general's office who had come to seize the body, having heard that it belonged not to Flores but to Amado Carrillo Fuentes, perhaps the world's most powerful drug lord...
Surely he'd faked his death, many Mexicans suspected. Could it be that a billionaire narcotics trafficker who regularly eluded assassins and prosecutors alike had met his end as the result of a nip and tuck? Having taken an international beating for failing to apprehend Carrillo over the years, the Mexican government was initially reluctant to declare the baron dead. But by early last week, officials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests...
Rather than going under the knife to upgrade his diminishing physical allure, Carrillo, according to speculation by drug enforcers, may have been seeking to change his identity for a life underground. Carrillo was in no immediate danger of being arrested--a planned U.S.-Mexican task force aimed at capturing him never materialized, largely because of ongoing corruption in the ranks of Mexican drug busters. But Carrillo had gained a level of celebrity in the past few years that made him a target for those on both sides...
...grand don made headlines for the first time in November 1993 when he dodged hit men from a rival drug clan who were shooting at him in a restaurant in the nation's capital. Last January, Carrillo was in the news again when he disappeared, propitiously, from his sister Aurora's wedding at the family's Guamuchilito ranch, just before law enforcers arrived to crash the event. It later emerged that Mexico's drug czar at the time, General Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, had been on Carrillo's payroll. DEA agents believe Carrillo had been on the run since Gutierrez Rebollo...
However pressured his life became, Carrillo died at the height of his power. Forging important alliances with Colombia's Cali drug cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Carrillo pioneered the use of Boeing 727s and cargo aircraft to move tons of cocaine from South America to Mexico, where supplies were then shipped and trucked across the U.S. border. More significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become...