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Griselda Blanco Restrepo (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel.
Jan 25, 2024 · Colombian cartel leader Griselda Blanco dominated the U.S. cocaine trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Read about her younger years, sons, death, movies, and more. Search
Feb 2, 2024 · On September 3, 2012, 69-year-old Griselda Blanco stepped outside a butcher’s shop in Medellín. Suddenly, two shots rang out––they had come from the gun of assassins on a motorcycle, which ...
Griselda Blanco (born February 15, 1943, Santa Marta?, Colombia—died September 3, 2012, Medellín) was a Colombian cocaine trafficker who amassed a vast empire and was a central figure in the violent drug wars in Miami in the 1970s and ’80s.
Jan 25, 2024 · Blanco’s life was far from easy, with the young girl growing up in poverty, allegedly turning to prostitution and pickpocketing to make ends meet at a young age. In one apocryphal story noted...
Jan 25, 2024 · Griselda's life of crime started at a young age. When she was 11, Griselda reportedly kidnapped a young boy and killed him when his wealthy parents didn't pay the ransom, per Vice. According...
Sep 15, 2023 · Known as the “Cocaine Godmother” and the “Black Widow,” Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s — when a young Pablo Escobar was still boosting cars.
Michael Corleone Blanco was reportedly unhappy about the way his late mother has been portrayed in the series and suggested that the narcotics trafficking queen looked beautiful in real life and...
Starring Sofia Vergara as ambitious and murderous Miami cartel head, "Griselda" reveals dramatized life, business acumen, and downfall of “the Godmother,” one of America’s highest earning drug traffickers in the 1970s and 80s.
Jan 20, 2018 · According to Cocaine Cowboys II, Blanco was a dirt-poor kid in Colombia who committed her first murder at age 11 and later worked as a teenage prostitute. Blanco famously loved the Godfather...
