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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.
Motorcycle ride-by killings were a common form of murder used by drug lord Griselda Blanco during her years controlling the Miami cocaine trade routes in the late 1970s and early 1980s. [11] Blanco herself died by this method after having been shot twice in the head by a motorcyclist in a drive-by shooting in Medellín, Colombia.
Griselda Blanco was known as the “godmother of cocaine” and had Miami connections during the city’s Cocaine Cowboy” days in the 1980s. ... A file photo of Griselda Blanco, the mastermind ...
PHOTOS: The many faces of the real Griselda: See photos of Miami’s ‘godmother of cocaine’ Murder cases Blanco was alleged to have been responsible for the deaths of at least two of her ex ...
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 ...
When the dust settled, six bodyguards were dead, and Griselda had been shot in the stomach. Alberto, however, had been hit directly in the face. Griselda recovered, but fate didn't shine as ...
Here is everything you need to know about Griselda Blanco, the subject of Netflix's latest crime series. ... and shot a child at the age of 11. Blanco immigrated to the United States with ...
NETFLIX'S LIMITED DRAMA series Griselda stars an unrecognizable Sofia Vergara as the real-life Colombian drug cartel leader Griselda Blanco, who dominated the cocaine trade in Miami throughout the ...