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Tim Hanlon

Cartel drug lord died after getting plastic surgery to make himself unrecognisable

A drug lord who was the most powerful and wanted in Mexico for 10 years died after getting plastic surgery to alter his appearance.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes was nicknamed the “lord of the skies” due to the fleet of planes he had to traffic drugs was a partner of the infamous drug king Pablo Escobar, leader of Medellin cartel in Colombia.

For ten years between 1987 and 1997 he led the Juarez cartel which was the most powerful in Mexico.

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