A Mexico City mansion where Juárez Cartel leader
and millionaire drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes ('El Señor de los Cielos', The
Lord of the Skies) once lived will be put for auction on May 3 by the
newly-created Institute to Return Stolen Goods to the People (INDEP). The
auction's starting price will be MXN$53 million (US$2.1 million). The mansion is
in Lomas del Pedregal, an upscale residential neighborhood in Álvaro Obregón
borough.
For many years, Carrillo Fuentes avoided capture from
Mexican and U.S. authorities because he was successful at maintaining a
low-profile. Several high-ranking members of the Mexican Army were also
convicted for providing him protection. During his tenure, he amassed a multi-million dollar fortune by successfully using planes to smuggle drugs into the U.S. from Mexico. Carrillo Fuentes died on 4 July 1997 in
Santa Monica Hospital in Mexico City following a plastic surgery.
Background and event
The first auction of 2020 was held in March. Multiple assets were sold off,
including a house owned by the top money launderer of Los Zetas
founder Omar Lórmendez Pitalúa ("El Pita"), as reported by Borderland Beat.
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| Pool area inside the mansion (source: Milenio) |
This is the second auction held by the INDEP in
2020. It will be held in Complejo Cultural Los Pinos, what used to be the
official residence and office of the President of Mexico. In this event, they will auction 107 pieces of jewelry, 77 vehicles (six which
are not drive-able), 5 airplanes, 5 real estate properties and 7 batches
of miscellaneous merchandise.
The assets that will be auctioned are from State of Mexico, Baja California, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Jalisco, Michoacan, Nuevo Leon, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Sonora, Veracruz and Mexico City. All of them total up to MXN$130.1 million (US5.2 million).
Unlike other auctions done in the past, the INDEP will
only allow 15 participants to enter Complejo Cultural Los Pinos. This measure
is done to maintain social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Other participants may join the auction online via Zoom or by
calling in.
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| Frontal view of the mansion (source: Tribuna) |
All participants must fulfill the basic entry requirements and guarantee
payments. Those who want to tune in for the auction can call to the event's
number. Media will not be allowed at the auction, but the event will be posted
on YouTube after it is over. Officials stated that the proceeds generated from
the event will be used to build shelter homes.
Build shelter homes.....ya, ok...
ReplyDeleteyes... it will be used to build homes that will shelter cartels.
DeleteOr transferred to a private shell account.
DeleteThe profits will be used to buy mansions in south Texas for crooked Mexican politicians that are retiring.
DeleteSo far so good. Other than go by what you assume, have you actually followed up on what the president does with the funds? On other occasions he's converted confiscated properties into schools colleges and trade schools.
DeleteI would buy the for a dollar n 50 cent
ReplyDeleteI would buy that house for a dollar n 50 cent
DeleteI wouldn't buy that house for one cent on the dollar.
DeleteYet Americans would buy a U.S. serial killers house in a hearbeat.
DeleteThis is how racism is expressed unwillingly but perhaps knowingly in America.
If u had the $$ i would buy it make it an arbnb for all the narcoplaticantes could come and stay .
Deleteplease for the love of God if I hear the word "racism" one more time in an inappropriate context I'm gonna scream. It's just a word used to attack white people, when we all know everyone can be "racist" against someone else... no one cares anymore bc YOU have worn out the words meaning
Delete@12:07 excellent plan you want to meet up and do partnership 😂😂
Delete3:08 ok asshole. You don't like to hear the word racism yet you love to belittle anything Mwxican or related. What should we call it then?
DeleteNo. Not everyone is a little racist either.
@243, I've never "belittled anything Mexican or related".. I'm just sick of people pointing and Calling shit racist that isn't. You call white people "racist" all the time only as a way to attack, and it's one of MANY reasons why the left is losing the ideological battle in the US..avg people see through that nonsense and it undermines your argument and credibility when it comes to cultural issues
DeleteIn Narcos, he actually was portrayed as a likable character.
ReplyDeleteNarcos is corporate ameican shit.
DeleteIf you buy it they'll kill you :)
ReplyDeleteyup !!
DeleteNice house wonder if Mexican government maintain the pool ? If not that bring the price down, funny another Cartel guy will buy it
ReplyDeleteIf the walls in that mansion can speak. If they can speak they would say that Amado was either closing multimillion dollar deals with the colombians talking to high ranking politicos and badmouthing the Arellano Felix
ReplyDeletevery nice!!! Surprisingly well maintained. Not all are..
ReplyDeleteYeah, the one in ojinaga is complete shit
DeleteI wonder what politician has been staying here for all this time. They just decided to repatriate it to the people. What a farce...
ReplyDeleteLooks familiar from movie traffic where general gets arrested( If Los pinos. is not the official residence then where does Lopez stay? Not motel 6 after he leaves office will it turn back to official residence? This guy doesn't even have secret service protection or official vehicle bulletproof either this guy is stupid and ignorant or someone told him he's safe ?? Really no wonder he never goes after the bad guys : he's no Calderon.
ReplyDelete11:52 AMLO lives in the National Palace, needs no weekend residence to traffick influence like other high flying naco-presidentes.
DeleteFack FECAL and EPN.
ACF was murdered for betraying and stealing from his colombian parnas represented by don Castor "El Gordo" Ochoa in Cd Juarez, 20 tons of cocaine was too much temptation for el Señor de los Cielos and his Air America owned AIRLINES...
But they sent black roses to AFC's funeral reading:
"all good comes to those who know to wait"
So who u think killed Amado MX? Arellano Felix or MexGov. Or was it really an unfortunate accident?
ReplyDeleteHis death is fake news
Delete6:38 no mames!!!
DeleteHe “ he amassed a multi-million dollar fortune”. How about a multi billion dollar fortune. Amado offered to payoff Mexico’s government debt to remain free and he was moving cocaina 24/7 in 727 size planes. Pablo and his engineer en Ojinaga couldn’t keep up with making new runways or storage bunkers to store the packages.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the house from the movie traffic ( true story ) still goes on today protection for those guys from government for $$. Different show same guys.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many bodies are buried on the property and how many people have been tortured to death there?
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't live in that rat's nest if you paid me $2.1 million US
ReplyDeleteUhhm Wait a minute...$5,2 Million USD for:
ReplyDelete” 107 pieces of jewelry, 77 vehicles, 5 airplanes, 5 real estate properties and 7 batches of miscellaneous merchandise”..
Either the author made a mistake or that is some seriously cheap stuff/crap that is auctioned off..All Chinese fake knock-off crap or what(?)