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The trend towards anesthesia is far from overespecially now with the competition that the major streaming platforms have supported and are looking forward to more and more stories.
Netflix, which trended worldwide for several seasons with the series “Narcos,” in which it tells the story of several of the most feared drug traffickers in Colombia and Mexico, There is already a new six-episode limited series starring and produced by Sofía Vergara and under the direction of Andrés Baiz, also Colombian, who was one of the directors of “Narcos”.
Is about “Griselda,” a story based on the life of Griselda Blancothe woman from Cartagena who is said to have been Pablo Escobar’s godmother in the drug trade, also known as “The Black Widow”.
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“When we meet Griselda, we see a woman surrounded by a male-dominated world, and we also see her evolving and using oppression as a means of terror. “These images show just a small part of this duality that fascinates me about Griselda, the essence of which Sofía Vergara powerfully captures,” commented Andrés Baiz, director and producer of the miniseries.
His life has always been shrouded in mystery.even from his birthplace, as some claim he was born in Cartagena and others in Medellín. He came from a home where violence was the daily breadand then a series of romantic couples who, in some cases, fled her and in others died under rather suspicious circumstances.
With one of them, In the 1970s he emigrated to the United States, to the famous city of Queens, New York, where he began trafficking cocaine. The story goes that in 1975 she was indicted for drug conspiracy along with her subordinates, but she managed to travel to Colombia to avoid arrest. Years later he would return to the United States, but this time he would conduct his illegal operations from Miami.
“As a Colombian immigrant and single mother who came to the United States and built an empire, Sofía shares that aspect with this character, and her passion for telling Griselda’s story was undoubtedly the driving force behind this project. What will really surprise viewers is how Sofia embraces this utter darkness in her performance, unlike the popular comedic stars audiences know.. Finding that path was his biggest challenge on this series, and seeing the successful transformation was a privilege,” added co-creator and executive producer Eric Newman.
Also He is known for having participated in the drug-related violence known as the Cocaine Cowboys Wars. this affected Miami since the 1970s and early 1980s.
She would be deported by 2004, and eight years later it made headlines again when it did murdered when she was shot twice by a hitman on a motorcycle on one of the streets of Medellín. A typical operation of the drug-trafficking mafia cartels that she helped to found.
But this Six-part Netflix series It is not the first audiovisual production based on the story of the Colombian Griselda Blanco, who has already appeared in several series, films and documentaries.
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It was a centerpiece of documentaries that went around the world, such as “Cocaine Cowboys and Cocaine Cowboys 2.‘. In addition, the famous actress Catherine Zeta-Jones portrayed her in “Cocaine Godmother”a biographical television film that premiered on Lifetime in 2018.
Colombian television was not immune to this story Two-season Narcos series titled “The Black Widow,” Produced for Televisa for UniMás, Univision and Caracol Televisión.
It was an adaptation of the book “Pablo Escobar’s Patron Saint” by José Guarnizo and starring Ana Serradilla as the title character, which was released nine years ago.