2024-01-19 15:21:55
On January 25, the streaming content platform Netflix will premiere a series that reveals the life of the feared criminal Griselda Blanco.
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The role of the so-called ‘The Black Widow’, who was born in Cartagena in 1943, will be played by Barranquilla native Sofía Vergara.
Blanco was a criminal who became one of the most ‘important’ figures in drug trafficking in the world. According to the investigations carried out on her life, it is known that her childhood was marked by violence and misery.
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According to the biographical book ‘Cocaine Cowgirl’, Blanco began his steps in criminal life at the age of 11, following arriving in Medellín in the company of his family, where it is presumed that he led a gang of pickpockets in several neighborhoods of the capital of Antioquia.
Her marriage to Carlos Trujillo – a document forger – at the age of 14 stands out. From this marriage her first three children were born: Dixon, Uber and Osvaldo.
The ‘godmother’ was murdered in Medellín at the age of 69.
There are records that, in 1964, she entered the United States illegally and settled in Queens, New York, with her children and her husband.
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However, the latter died a few years later from cirrhosis, but it is said that Blanco was the architect of her husband’s death; hence she called him ‘the black widow’. After that episode, she Blanco met Alberto Bravo, the man who introduced her to the world of drug trafficking.
The ‘godmother’ was murdered in Medellín at the age of 69.
According to researchers who reconstructed Blanco’s life, following entering the world of drug trafficking as a mule, he devised new ‘techniques’ to camouflage drugs and ‘created new trafficking operations’ that would differentiate his organization from other Colombian gangs. This allowed him to monopolize the business for years.
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The myths surrounding Blanco’s life highlight that it was she who introduced Pablo Escobar Gaviria to the drug trafficking business. With certainty, it is known that in 1975, Blanco met Pablo Escobar, a young marijuana trafficker who was looking for ‘opportunities’ to advance in the world of drug trafficking. It is said that she was impressed with Escobar, so she invited him to join his organization.
Sofía Vergara is co-producer of ‘Griselda’ with the producer of ‘Narcos’, Eric Newman, and directed by Colombian Andrés Baiz.
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PHOTO: Courtesy Netflix
Blanco’s family, upon being persecuted by the United States Government, returned to Colombia to ‘hide’; Furthermore, her relationship was going through a ‘crisis’, so Griselda Blanco murdered her second husband Alberto Bravo.
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Over the years, he returned to the United States, specifically to Miami, in order to position his ‘business’. There she married Darío Sepúlveda, the father of her fourth child, Michael Corleone, named following Griselda’s favorite movie, ‘The Godfather’.
Griselda Blanco Restrepo, known by the aliases of the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Godmother’.
The ‘queen of drug trafficking’, Griselda Blanco, was arrested in 1985 at her home in Miami. The DEA charged her with conspiracy to manufacture, import and distribute cocaine, and she was found guilty in federal court in New York, for which she was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In 1992, while serving her sentence in the United States, she was charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the state of Florida. In 1998, Blanco pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, to run concurrently. In 2002, she suffered a heart attack in prison.
In 2004, she was released and deported to Medellín, Colombia. There she lived a quiet life until her murder in 2012.
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