Lord of the Skies: How Amado Carrillo Built the Juarez Cartel

At his peak, Amado Carrillo Fuentes — the cartel boss known as the Lord of the Skies, "El Señor de los Cielos" — may have been richer than Pablo Escobar himself. Using a private fleet of jets, he turned the Juárez Cartel into the most powerful drug trafficking organization in 1990s Mexico. And then, at the height of his power, he walked into a clinic and tried to disappear by changing his own face. This is the full story: his rise, the air-smuggling empire he built, the war with El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel that brought it down, and the question that still has no clear answer — did the Lord of the Skies really die that day? We tell these stories not to glorify crime, but to understand its real impact. Subscribe to Sleeping Crimes for a new cartel documentary every week. #AmadoCarrillo #LordOfTheSkies #JuarezCartel #ElSeñorDeLosCielos #PabloEscobar #ElChapo #Sinaloa #Cartel #TrueCrime #Documentary