The city of Medellín burned in 2012 due to the assassination of Griselda Blancoaka “The Queen of Coca” or also known as “The Godmother”, a founder of the drug trade in Colombia, He supported the late Pablo Escobar and opened the famous drug route that connects this South American country with the city of Miami in the United States.
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The press of those years documented that the 69-year-old woman was buying meat in a supermarket in the city of Medellín when two men on a motorcycle broke into the building and opened fire on Blanco, who suffered a fatal accident. from more than three decades in the United States.
Griselda founded the famous Miami-Colombia drug route
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Doña Griselda, accused of more than 250 murders and who had an inestimable fortune thanks to the cocaine trade between the 80s and 70s, also stood out in the world of crime for her eccentricities: she murdered two of her husbands for drug trafficking, his four children, two were murdered, a third He was imprisoned in the USA and a fourth named Michel Corleone suffers from an illness.
Griselda returns to Netflix with Sofia Vergara
The series starts on January 25th the name “Griselda”, with the Colombian actress Sofía Vergara and a special appearance by the Singer Karol G. In a press conference organized by Netflix, the former “Modern Family” protagonist assures that she does not admire Blanco for all his ties to crime, but accepts her role as a single mother and migrant in the United States and is capable of those who climb these levels of power , triggers a certain admiration.
“If all the energy she put into crime had been put into something else, I'm sure she would have been the next president of Colombia,” Vergara told the media.
The actress who grew up in Barranquilla city In the most violent times – with Pablo Escobar at the highest level and a series of unbridled acts of violence – he realizes that he doesn't want to glorify organized crime just with his work. tries to represent this Colombian reality.
Who was Griselda, the so-called “Black Widow”?
Eleven years after her deportation from the United States because of the opening of the famous Colombia-Florida route, to which she would later become the heir the Medellín cartel, Griselda tried to rebuild her life as a woman who shopped, paid her bills, and sold some of the properties she left behind. He couldn't do it, he was done murdered with a bullet in the head.
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A profile written by Ethan Brown and published in the Colombian magazine Don Juan reveals that Griselda's first murder occurred when she was just 11 years old. Together with a group of teenagers, they kidnapped a wealthy boy and kept him isolated in the hills between the mountains most of the outlying areas.
Since her family was unable to raise the money, Griselda, driven by pressure from her accomplices, murdered the victim with a bullet in the head, which happened some time later He would end up taking her life too.
Griselda died in the emergency room despite being immediately transported in a car when she was attacked by the two men in a supermarket. “Revenge is a dish to be eaten cold,” he used to say when referring to or referring to his dead enemies “The Godfather”, his favorite film.