Aurelio Casillas smiled for the first time.
Below, panic. Above, thunder.
That night, Aurelio stole Cleto’s next shipment, three kilos of pure white, and flew it himself across the Sierra Madre. No checkpoints. No bribes. Just moon and metal. He landed in a field outside Culiacán and delivered to a rival, El Chema, who paid him in gold and respect.
The Lord of the Skies had just begun.
Cleto laughed. "You’re a mule with wings, boy."
But power draws vultures.
He worked for Don Cleto, a relic of the old narcos—slow, superstitious, content with mules crossing the border once a week. Aurelio saw the future: planes. Fast, invisible, untouchable. "We move powder like Coca-Cola," he told Cleto. "Airborne." El Senor de los Cielos Temporada 1 Completa
His brother, Raimundo, betrayed him for a suitcase of dollars. His lover, Ximena, was taken by federales who wanted what Aurelio had: the routes, the planes, the empire. In the season’s final episode, Aurelio sat in a hangar, alone, a gun on the table, a flight plan to nowhere.
He loaded the plane with five hundred kilos, took off into a storm, and flew directly over the city where the President was giving a speech. He didn’t drop bombs. He dropped leaflets with one sentence:
Cleto sent men to kill him. Aurelio killed them first—six men, six bullets, one knife. He buried them under a mango tree and flew back to Cleto’s ranch at dawn, landing the Cessna on the main road. Aurelio Casillas smiled for the first time
Cleto reached for his gun. Aurelio was faster. He left the body in the pilot’s seat, took Cleto’s ledger, and burned the ranch to the ground.
He could run. He could die. Or he could become the monster they already feared.
By mid-season, Aurelio had built his own airline of cocaine. Pilots loyal to death, mechanics who asked no questions, and a network of runways carved from jungle. He called himself El Señor de los Cielos —Lord of the Skies—because he believed no one in heaven or earth could catch him. That night, Aurelio stole Cleto’s next shipment, three
In Season 1 of his life, the man who would become El Señor de los Cielos was still a shadow.