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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.
At age 19, Griselda ran away from home and supported herself through theft and robbery -- that is, until 1964 when she moved to the United States under a fake name with forged papers at the age of 21.
Here is everything you need to know about Griselda Blanco, ... Who Is the *Real* Griselda Blanco? ... and shot a child at the age of 11. Blanco immigrated to the United States with fraudulent ...
Jorge Ayala was arrested in connection with a Chicago bank robbery. It was during this time that authorities were also searching for Griselda Blanco's top hitman, whom they only knew by the name of "Riverita". Soon after his capture, they realized that he was the assassin they had been looking for. [7]
She died at age 69 in 2012 with a Bible placed on her chest. She was shot twice in the head in a quiet Medellín suburb. ... The many faces of the real Griselda: See photos of Miami’s ...
Griselda Blanco. Griselda Blanco (1943–2012), known as the "Godmother of Cocaine", was a drug lord who operated between Miami and Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s. During the height of her operation, she smuggled nearly 3,500 pounds (1,600 kg) of cocaine into the United States every month through a well-established network in south Florida.
The real Griselda Blanco was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1943 and moved to Queens, New York in the ‘60s, returning to Colombia in 1975.
The real Blanco — who was known by a variety of nicknames, including the Black Widow and the Cocaine Godmother — was shot dead in 2012 in Colombia at age 69. Vergara as Blanco in Netflix’s ...