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Here’s a look at the real person behind the series from the photo archives of the Miami Herald: Photos Griselda Blanco’s police arrest picture in Miami-Dade County.
Set in Miami in the Seventies and Eighties, the six-part drama is a fictionalised retelling of real-life figure Griselda Blanco’s journey from unassuming mother and businesswoman to powerful and ...
Though Griselda’s world is immersed in the 1970s and 1980s retro Miami scene – once the cocaine capital of the United States – no sequences were filmed in the Floridian city.
Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north coast.She and her mother, Ana Restrepo, [7] moved south to Medellín when she was three years old; this exposed her to a criminal lifestyle at an impressionable age, as Medellín was enduring years of its own socioeconomic, social and political troubles.
By bringing the war to South Vietnam's cities, however, and by demonstrating the continued strength of communist forces, it marked a turning point in US support for the government in South Vietnam. The new administration of Richard Nixon introduced a policy of Vietnamization to reduce US combat involvement and began negotiations with the North ...
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War , Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [ 1 ]
This notorious Ochoa crime family's role in the Colombian drug trade, depicted in Netflix's 'Griselda,' has also been explored in 'Narcos.'
the life and death of griselda blanco Published Sept. 5, 2012 Griselda Blanco’s story was often told in numbers: she turned tricks at 14, and moved 300 kilos of cocaine a month in her 40s.