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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. Blanco's ...
A file photo of Griselda Blanco, the mastermind behind the gruesome drug related killings in South Florida that took place during the 1980s. A police photo of Griselda Blanco.
Griselda Blanco, whose life is now a Netflix series, was a cocaine trade pioneer who made her mark on the streets of Miami. ... PHOTOS: The many faces of the real Griselda: See photos of Miami’s ...
In a last-ditch effort to avoid prosecution, Griselda fled back to Colombia. Miami Vice A few years after escaping prosecution in New York, Griselda returned to the US and set up shop in Miami ...
Griselda Blanco: Drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, involved in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade during the 1970s and early 1980s Colombia: 2004 Colombia: Various and multiple criminal convictions [14] [15] [16] Charles Hopel Brown Jamaican author, computer engineer, and U.S. Army veteran Jamaica: 2004 Jamaica: Resisting arrest, probation ...
Blanco was sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend, pushing her to run away at the age of 19 and submit to a life of petty crime to get by. Much is alleged about Blanco’s early years ...
Griselda decides to leave home because her mother did not believe her stepfather abused her. Griselda joins a gang of criminals in order to survive alone in the world. Griselda falls for "Cejas" the first man who betrays her and thus was born "La viuda negra", a woman who murdered her three husbands for having betrayed her.
Michael recently wrote a book about Griselda Blanco’s life, My Mother, The Godmother, which is available for pre-order. “Somebody from the family has to tell the story correctly,” he said.