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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.
Griselda Blanco, whose life is now a Netflix series, was a cocaine trade pioneer who made her mark on the streets of Miami. ... Her death. She died at age 69 in 2012 with a Bible placed on her ...
Here is everything you need to know about Griselda Blanco, the subject of Netflix's latest crime series. ... of 2012 at the age of 69. On the day of her death, Blanco visited a butcher shop in ...
In 1982, Griselda Blanco ordered Ayala to kill Jesus “Chucho” Castro, one of her former enforcers. According to George Cadavid, a Miami police homicide detective, she wanted Castro dead after he had been hired to protect a drug supplier, but refused to carry out an unspecified order. [15]
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.
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 ...
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.
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.