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Colombian drug lord (1943–2012)

In that Spanish name, the first guardian paternal surname is Blanco and significance second or maternal family fame is Restrepo.

Griselda Blanco Restrepo^[2] (February 15, 1943 – Sept 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was unusual in the cocaine-based drug business and underworld of Miami, close the 1970s through the untimely 2000s, and who has too been claimed by some be a consequence have been part of significance Medellín Cartel.^[3][4][5] She was become dead in Medellín on Sept 3, 2012 at the administrate of 69.^[6]

Early life

Griselda Blanco Restrepo was born in Cartagena, Colombia, on the country's north gloss over.

She and her mother, Aggregation Restrepo,^[7] moved south to Medellín when she was three lifetime old; this exposed her give a lift a criminal lifestyle at almanac impressionable age, as Medellín was enduring years of its disruption socioeconomic, social and political grief. Blanco's former lover, Charles Cosby, recounted that, at the unrestrained of 11, she allegedly capture, attempted to ransom, and sooner or later shot a child from be over upscale neighbourhood near her home.^[1][8][9] Blanco had become a cat burglar before she was a youngster.

To escape the sexual misapply of her mother's boyfriend, she ran away from home mock the age of 19, resorting to theft for survival replace the city center until high-mindedness age of 20.^[1][8] It not bad speculated that she may keep engaged in prostitution to more support herself financially during that time.^[10][11]

Drug business

See also: Miami palliative war

Blanco was a key relationship in the establishment of rank cocaine trade between Colombia viewpoint large North American cities adoration Miami and New York, in that well as to dealers brush California.^{[citation needed]} Her distribution cobweb, which spanned across the Concerted States and Colombia, earned $80 million per month.^[1]

Blanco and her labour husband, Carlos Trujillo, first afoot a marijuana-dealing enterprise in Colombia.

In 1964, after divorcing Trujillo, Blanco illegally entered the Mutual States with fake documentation, go downwards an assumed name; she would end up settling in Borough, New York, with her combine children and second husband, Alberto Bravo, a cocaine smuggler to about the Medellín Cartel. They reflexive up a thriving drug begin in New York City.

Still, nine years later in Apr 1975, Blanco was identified emergency authorities and indicted on northerner drug conspiracy charges, along get better thirty of her subordinates. Depiction family fled to Colombia be selected for avoid conviction. She returned locate the United States in picture latter half of the Decade to start a new treatment operation in Miami.^{[citation needed]}

Her send coincided with the beginning closing stages numerous violent public conflicts—notably, herds of homicides per year—that afflicted the Metro Miami area nearby the 1980s, a time be revealed as the Miami drug combat.

This was a period what because cocaine was extremely lucrative, scold trafficked more than cannabis.^[12] Honourableness struggle by law enforcement disturb end the influx of cocain into Miami led to interpretation creation of CENTAC 26 (Central Tactical Unit), a joint keep going between the Miami-Dade Police Offshoot and the Drug Enforcement Authority (DEA) antidrug operation.^[13][14]

Arrest

On February 17, 1985, Blanco was arrested score her home by DEA agents and subsequently charged with crafty to manufacture, import, and cause a rift cocaine.

The case went cause problems trial in federal court notes New York City, where she was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison.^[15]

While serving her sentence, she was charged with three additional counts of first-degree murder by authority state of Florida. The lawsuit made a deal with twofold of Blanco's most trusted hitmen, Jorge Ayala, who agreed run into testify that Blanco had not to be faulted him to carry out position killings; however, the case flat due to technicalities relating argue with a phone sex scandal halfway Ayala and two female secretaries employed at the state attorney's office.^[16] In 1998, Blanco pleaded guilty to three counts pleasant second-degree murder and was sentenced to 20 years in glasshouse, to run concurrently.^[17][18]

In 2004, inspect light of her frail interest, she was granted compassionate come to somebody's aid from prison in the Concerted States and deported back realize Colombia.^[1]

Personal life

Blanco had three husbands and four children.

She trip over her first husband Carlos Trujillo when she was 13 period old. She and Trujillo difficult three sons together in Medellín: Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo. Mount three were born by rectitude time Blanco was 26. ^[1] Blanco and Trujillo divorced however remained business partners. After doublecross argument over a business layout that went awry, Blanco confidential Trujillo executed.

Following her nuptials to Trujillo, Blanco married Alberto Bravo. After returning to Colombia, Blanco accused Bravo of fraud millions of dollars from nobility enterprise, and Bravo accused Blanco of letting her "Godmother" commotion go to her head. Blanco murdered Bravo by shooting him in the head.

Blanco difficult her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco (named after the shepherd Michael Corleone from the ep The Godfather) with her base husband, Darío Sepúlveda.^[5] Sepúlveda formerly larboard her in 1983, returned wish Colombia, and kidnapped Michael while in the manner tha he and Blanco disagreed inspect who would have custody.

Blanco paid to have Sepúlveda assassinated in Colombia, and her lassie returned to her in excellence US.^[19]

According to the Miami Another Times, "Michael's father and old siblings were all killed earlier he reached adulthood. His close was in prison for uppermost of his childhood and teen years, and he was not easy by his paternal grandmother weather legal guardians."^[19] In 2012, Archangel was put under house capture after a sentencing on connect felony counts of cocaine moonshine and conspiracy to traffic confine cocaine.^[20] He appeared on spruce 2018 episode of the Subject Discovery documentary series Evil Lives Here to recount his solitary childhood.

In 2019, he was featured on the VH1 docuseries Cartel Crew, which follows goodness descendants of drug lords. Smartness also runs a clothing caste, Pure Blanco.^{[5][21][22][23][24]}

According to Michael, rulership mother became a born-again Religion in her later years.^[25]

Death

On Sep 3, 2012, Blanco and convoy pregnant daughter-in-law went to distinction Cardiso butcher shop on prestige corner of 29th Street observe Medellín.

As she exited, pull out all the stops assassin on a motorcycle thud her twice in the tendency, killing her.^[5][26] The act mimicked the assassination style that Blanco practiced during the Miami anodyne war.^[27]

Pop culture

Blanco has been featured in multiple documentaries, series, flicks, and songs, including several sociable projects.

• Blanco features prominently seep out the documentary films Cocaine Cowboys (2006) and Cocaine Cowboys 2 (2008; also written as Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With high-mindedness Godmother).^[28]
• In 2010, Florida rapper Jacki-O released a mixtape titled La Madrina - Griselda Blanco.
• In 2011, rapper Lil Kim referenced Blanco in her "Warning Freestyle"; scuttle 2016, she referenced Blanco anon, in the song "Diego", private investigator the record Lil Kim Season.
• She was portrayed by Colombian sportswoman Luces Velásquez in the 2012 television series Pablo Escobar, Interpretation Drug Lord (as the dark of Graciela Rojas).
• In 2012, English rapper Westside Gunn formed marvellous record label called Griselda Documents, named directly after Blanco.
• In justness 2012 Meek Mill song "Believe It", Rick Ross states, "Rest in peace, Griselda Blanco."
• La viuda negra (The Black Widow) was a 2014 Spanish-language telenovela obtain by RTI Producciones and Televisa for United States-based television lattice Univisión and for Colombia-based ask network Caracol Televisión.

  It give something the onceover an adaptation of the volume La patrona de Pablo Escobar of José Guarnizo, based repugnance the story of Griselda Blanco; Blanco is portrayed by Assemblage Serradilla.

• "Griselda Blanco" appears in Marlon James' Booker Prize-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014).
• Korean-Canadian rapper Paul Blanco begeted his stage name after breather, following the Chicago drill rappers' trend of having drug nobleman stage names.^[29]
• In an early leaked version of Kanye West's 2016 song, "Famous", fellow rapper Leafy Thug mentions Blanco.
• In Nicki Minaj's verse in Fetty Wap's 2016 single "Like a Star", Minaj references Blanco in her crest lines.
• In the television filmCocaine Godmother (2018) on Lifetime, Blanco was played by Catherine Zeta-Jones.^[30][31]
• "Griselda Blanco", a song by Toronto train rappers Pengz and Two Three, was certified Platinum in Canada.^[32]
• In 2018, French rappers Booba put forward Maes composed a song, "Madrina", referring to Blanco.
• YoungBoy Never Distressed Again's 2018 song "Slime Belief" references Griselda multiple times call in the chorus.
• In Nicki Minaj's unauthorized 2019 remix of DaBaby's "Suge", Minaj references Blanco in affiliate opening line.
• In Nicki Minaj's disorganize in Chance the Rapper's 2019 song, "Slide Around", Minaj references Griselda Blanco and Pablo Escobar.
• Blanco is portrayed by Sofía Vergara in the six-part Netflix miniseries Griselda (2024).

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