2024-01-30 20:57:21
Griselda Blanco, once known as the queen of cocaine, has generated a lot of buzz recently after a Netflix miniseries premiered with Sofía Vergara in the leading role. From this, some details about the life of the famous drug trafficker have been revealed, among them, which movie she was inspired to form her poster in the United States.
Griselda Blanco, known as “The Godmother”, according to the United States Department of Justice, was the leader of a violent organization that operated in Miami in 1984 and was so immersed in her role that she took inspiration from the movie “The Godfather.” part of your life.
According to reports to the authorities, his fixation with the Italian mafia portrayed in the film was so great that one of his four children was even baptized Michael Corleone.
On the other hand, it is also known that Griselda started a group in Miami nicknamed “The Gunfighters” that carried out torture and mutilation practices to demonstrate their power to other gangs, becoming a characteristic that identified the Medellín Cartel.
For years she was wanted for her participation in legal drug trafficking from Colombia to the United States. In the 70s and 80s her fortune was estimated at US$2,000,000,000 according to information from the book “The Patron Saint of Pablo Escobar. Life and Death of Griselda Blanco. The Black Widow as the Woman Who Formed Him” .
According to The New York Times, the Colombian organization he led distributed more than 9 kilos of cocaine per week in the United States between 1972 and 1974, which would be equivalent to a value of US$2.5 million per week.
Griselda Blanco Restrepo, known by the aliases of the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Godmother’.
Griselda Blanco: how did she become the queen of cocaine?
According to a CNN article, Ana Griselda Blanco was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1943. In 1955 she moved to Medellín, where she began committing crimes in poor neighborhoods. It is said that at the age of 12 she already led a gang of pickpockets and that she even commented on her first kidnapping and murder. At the age of 13 she moved to Queens in New York.
In the book Cocaine Cowgirl, by journalist Jennie Erin Smith, it is noted that her first marriage was to Carlos Trujillo involved in human trafficking. With him she had her first three children Dixon, Uber and Osvaldo. Years later, her first husband died supposedly of cirrhosis, but there are those who claim that she was actually involved.
Her second marriage was with Alberto Bravo, a smuggler who is said to have linked her to cocaine trafficking. It is speculated that she also had something to do with the death of her partner. Her last marriage was with Darío Sepúlveda with whom she had her fourth child named Michael Corleone, she also killed him for having taken his son to Colombia against her will.
Griselda’s power in her time was enormous, she is even recognized for having traced some of the routes that other drug traffickers would later use. But in 1985 the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested her in California. A court sentenced her to 15 years in prison and a US$25,000 fine.
After serving her sentence under pressure from the United States, Griselda Blanco was deported to Colombia and returned to live in Medellín, until on September 3, 2012, when she was 69 years old, she was shot to death while outside a butcher shop.
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