Griselda blanco full biography of josh
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Frumpy and short, with a double-barreled chin, she could have passed for the grandmother next door. But no one called Griselda Blanco a golden-ager. The 69-year-old Colombian made her name notching up felonies from drugrunning to multiple murders. Drive-by shootings were her calling card. On the way up, the "Godmother" also made enemies and apparently one of them caught up with her last week in Medellín. Blanco was out running errands in her hometown, shopping at a neighborhood butcher shop, when a man on a motorcycle pulled up and shot her twice in the head with a large gun before speeding away. Blanco's pregnant ex-daughter-in-law, who saw the whole thing, placed a Bible on Blanco's chest as she bled to death. The $165 of meat she'd just purchased fell on the pavement.
Blanco's end was as blunt and dramatic as her career in crime had been. A rare matriarch in the macho world of Latin narcotráfico, she was already a seasoned drug dealer in the mid-1970s when Pablo
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Netflix's Griselda: Which characters are based on real people and which are not?
Netflix's crime skådespel Griselda has viewers on the edge of their seats. But Griselda isn't the only real character people are curious about.
The Netflix release of Griselda, a fictionalised rendition of the life story of Griselda Blanco, features an unusual character – a ruthless Colombian female drug lord who leveraged her invisibility as an ordinary housewife to command the streets of Miami. The show opens with a quote that lets us know that Blanco was even feared by the likes of Pablo Escobar.
Kristen Maldonado, the TV and film critic behind Pop Culture Planet, tells BBC Culture that "what makes Griselda Blanco's story so interesting fryst vatten that she's someone who was very prominent in the drug trade industry of the '70s and '80s, but isn't as well-known as her male counterparts – because she was a woman".
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Cocaine Cowboys 2
For the 1979 crime drama film directed by Ulli Lommel, see Cocaine Cowboys (1979 film).
2008 American film
| Cocaine Cowboys 2 | |
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| Directed by | Billy Corben and Lisa M. Perry |
| Produced by | Alfred Spellman Billy Corben David Cypkin |
| Edited by | Billy Corben David Cypkin |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cocaine Cowboys 2, also known as Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother, is a 2008 documentary film sequel to Cocaine Cowboys (2006).[1] Directed by Billy Corben and Lisa M. Perry and produced by Rakontur, the film features Charles Cosby, Nelson Andreu, and Jorge "Rivi" Ayala and the Colombian-born "Cocaine Godmother", drug lord Griselda Blanco.[2]
Set in 1992, the film is largely narrated by Cosby, a small-time cocaine dealer from a broken home located in Oakland's inner-city. The film "follows Charles