Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Juárez Cartel and expanded its cocaine operations using aircraft.

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Juárez Cartel: A Mexican drug-trafficking organization based in Ciudad Juárez that became a major supplier of cocaine to the United States. Carrillo led the cartel as it expanded its cocaine routes and operational reach.
Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo: A Mexican drug trafficker known as Don Neto and a founding figure of the Guadalajara Cartel. Carrillo was his nephew and entered trafficking through established family and cartel connections.
Vicente Carrillo Fuentes: A Mexican drug trafficker who led the Juárez Cartel after his brother Amado’s death. He inherited leadership of the organization and its unfinished succession struggle.
Ciudad Juárez: A Mexican border city in Chihuahua, across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. It was the cartel’s home base and a strategic point on routes into the United States.
Cocaine trafficking: The illicit production, transport, and sale of cocaine across local and international markets. Its cross-border supply chains were the business Carrillo organized and expanded.
Guadalajara Cartel: A Mexican drug-trafficking organization that rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s. Carrillo’s early criminal career developed within the organization before its fragmentation.
Pablo Acosta Villarreal: A Mexican drug trafficker who controlled routes in the Ojinaga region near the United States border. His trafficking network was part of the regional landscape from which Juárez operations expanded.
Operation Leyenda: A United States Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into the 1985 kidnapping and murder of Enrique Camarena. The investigation exposed the earlier Mexican trafficking network in which Carrillo’s career took shape.
Air bridge: An organized air transport route used to move people or cargo between locations. Aircraft gave Carrillo’s organization a way to move cocaine across long distances.
Rafael Aguilar Guajardo: A Mexican drug trafficker who led the Juárez Cartel before his 1993 assassination. Carrillo succeeded Aguilar Guajardo in leading the cartel.