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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.
In 1978, Blanco and her new husband, Dario Sepulveda, moved to Miami, where Blanco became one of the most prolific drug dealers of all time. This time, she ran the cartel herself.
The Early Years. Griselda was born in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 1943, but moved to the bustling Colombian metropolis of Medellín when she was a small child.
The cops opened fire and shot Dario right in front of the kid," Max Mermelstein, a former associate of Blanco's, told the Sun Sentinel. "Little Michael was screaming and ran over to embrace his ...
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 ...
Griselda is an American biographical crime drama television miniseries directed by Andrés Baiz and produced by Eric Newman and Sofía Vergara. It is written by Doug Miro and Ingrid Escajeda. It stars Vergara as Griselda Blanco, a notorious Colombian drug lord. The miniseries premiered on Netflix on January 25, 2024. [2]
The film stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Griselda Blanco, who was known as the Cocaine Godmother. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It premiered at the 2017 Camerimage in Poland and showed on Lifetime channel on January 20, 2018.
Griselda Blanco, whose life is now a Netflix series, was a cocaine trade pioneer who made her mark on the streets of Miami. ... Blanco came to epitomize the “cocaine cowboy” bloodshed of the ...