{"id":7778,"date":"2023-11-09T00:41:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2023-11-09T00:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:41:28","slug":"griselda-blanco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/griselda-blanco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruel World of Drug Lord, Griselda Blanco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the world of drug traffickers, several men stand out as almost mythical figures \u2013 Pablo Escobar and Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman to name two of the most famous.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But do you know who gave Pablo Escobar his start? Do you know who was the first narco trafficker to send cocaine into the United States? The first to perfect the widely used drug \u201cmule\u201d?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griselda Blanco may not be as well known as some of the famous male drug lords, but she was just as bloody, cruel, and ambitious. The \u201cBlack widow,\u201d the \u201cGodmother,\u201d or \u201cCocaine Cowgirl\u201d \u2013 whatever name you choose to call her, Griselda Blanco shaped the drug trade with her innovative and bloody tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"845\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Griselda_Blanco_Medellin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.757396449704142;width:498px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Griselda_Blanco_Medellin.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Griselda_Blanco_Medellin-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mugshot of Griselda Blanco. Colombian drug lord of the Medell\u00edn Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Griselda Blanco Started Killing As a Child<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griselda Blanco was born in Cartagena, Colombia in 1943 but moved to Medellin soon after due to the violence and the abuse that her mother suffered. In Medellin, she grew up in a neighborhood known as Comuna 13, one of the roughest parts of the city.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There, surrounded by crime and violence, she learned from those around her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time she was just eleven years old, she had already gathered together a gang of pickpockets who managed to support themselves through theft. But Griselda wasn\u2019t satisfied with petty crime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She soon hatched a much more ambitious plan \u2013 to kidnap a wealthy boy and demand a ransom from his family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griselda and her group carried out the first part of the plan \u2013 kidnapping the boy \u2013 but when the family didn&#8217;t pay the ransom, Griselda simply killed him. At the age of eleven, Griselda already showed the kind of cold calculation that would go on to define the rest of her sordid career in the drug trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She left home at 14. By her late teens, she married her first husband, Carlos Trujillo, a man who sold fake passports. She had three children with him \u2013 Uber, Dixon, and Osvaldo. She was with him for ten years before he seemingly died of cirrhosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was it really the disease that killed him? Given Griselda\u2019s penchant for violence, others pointed their fingers at Griselda herself. It wouldn\u2019t be the first time she was accused of killing her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Griselda Blanco\u2019s Rise to Power<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just months after Trujillo\u2019s death, Griselda married a narcotrafficker named Alberto Bravo. She had started out as a mule for his growing drug empire. But after just a few months she became his wife.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this was no typical marriage. As Alberto\u2019s wife, Griselda continued to smuggle drugs across the border for him. And she quickly proved to be innovative when it came to the drug trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of her first realizations was that women made perfect mules because they largely went unnoticed. Or better yet, if they flirted with the border patrol, they could easily carry drugs through to the United States no matter how much attention was placed on them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also came up with the technique in which her mules would hide drugs in their underwear. The method became so successful for her that she eventually went on to create her own lingerie factory in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there was yet another innovation of hers that was far deadlier \u2013 motorcycle hitmen. As she watched her husband\u2019s drug trade grow, she came to the conclusion that buying up rival operations was the quickest way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimemuseum.org\/crime-library\/drugs\/the-cocaine-godmother\/\" title=\"\">expand into new territory<\/a> while eliminating competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, she started buying out competitors. But what if they refused? She simply had them killed in a drive-by shooting from the back of a motorcycle. This was one of the first times that hitmen on motorcycles were used to execute victims. And it was the Black Widow\u2019s idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Becoming \u201cLa Viuda Negra\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a certain point, the US authorities began to trail Griselda Blanco and her husband, forcing them to flee back to Colombia. It was soon after they returned, however, that Griselda gained one of her most famous nicknames \u2013 \u201cLa Viuda Negra,\u201d or \u201cBlack Widow.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear the motives for her crime, but one day in a club in Medell\u00edn, she shot and killed her husband, Alberto. In return, he shot her in the abdomen, but she survived.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The murder of Alberto, coupled with suspicions that she had murdered her first husband as well, made \u201cthe Black Widow\u201d a seemingly fitting name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But her run of husband killings didn\u2019t end there. A few years later she married for the third time and had her fourth child \u2013 Michael Corleone, who she named after <em>The Godfather<\/em> movies, which were her favorite.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/the-history-of-la-catedral\/\" title=\"\">Pablo Escobar<\/a> was running the drug trade in and around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historydefined.net\/the-story-behind-pablo-escobar-in-front-of-the-white-house\/\" title=\"\">Medellin<\/a>, and so Griselda Blanco and her new husband, Dario Sep\u00falveda, moved to Miami. There, they set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5y8d3\/griselda-blanco-netflix-series-cocaine-drug-lord\" title=\"\">thriving drug empire<\/a> of their own that was every bit as violent as Esobar\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately for Dar\u00edo, even he wasn\u2019t immune to that violence. At one point, he decided he wanted to give Michael a better life than the one in Miami with his mother. So, he kidnapped four-year-old Michael and attempted to flee.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he was tracked down by hitmen to a region of Colombia called Antioquia, where he was shot down. Michael was then returned to his mother. I guess that&#8217;s what you get for marrying the \u201cBlack Widow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Griselda Blanco Is Captured<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once Griselda was reunited with her son Michael back in Miami, she doubled down on her network of criminal activities. She became one of the most famous (and feared) figures in the Miami underworld.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It didn\u2019t matter how old her victims were, or whether or not they deserved to die. During this time, she ruled through violence and an iron fist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But eventually, the law caught up with her. As she felt the snare closing in on her, she fled Miami for Irvine, California, taking Michael with her. For a while, she lived there with her mother while her three eldest sons took over the sordid family business back in Miami.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the DEA had not lost the trail. And by tracking the activities of her sons, they finally managed to apprehend the Black Widow herself on the morning of February 17, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time she was caught, Griselda\u2019s list of crimes was long. She easily could have been put away for life had it not been for some irregularities that occurred during the trial. Because of these, she received only 20 years for the murders of a handful of Cuban drug traffickers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even being in prison didn\u2019t put an end to Griselda\u2019s criminal activity. After striking up a romantic relationship with a younger man named, Charles Cosby, the two of them decided to kidnap John F. Kennedy\u2019s son and hold him for ransom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing that the Kennedy family was one of the richest in America, they hoped to extract millions from the operation. Charles eventually thought better of it though and turned on Griselda, becoming an informant for the FBI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Black Widow&#8217;s Last Days<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The planned kidnapping had little effect on her sentence. In 2004, after two decades in prison, Griselda Blanco was released and deported to Colombia. There, she lived out the remainder of her days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days were filled with fear and paranoia \u2013 at least according to those who were close to her. She apparently never wanted to sleep alone, and had nightmares filled with scenes of violence that she herself had perpetrated over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As is perhaps fitting for a woman who left behind such a bloody trail of corpses throughout her life, she died at the hands of hitmen riding on the back of a motorcycle \u2013 the very innovation that she had begun decades earlier.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As violent a death as it was, anyone who knew her didn\u2019t find anything surprising about it. As one police investigator put it, \u201cWhen you kill so many and hurt so many people like she did, it\u2019s only a matter of time before they find you and try to even the score.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s perhaps a fitting epitaph for one of the most dangerous and bloodthirsty drug lords that ever lived.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From her first taste of blood at the young age of eleven to her rise through the ranks of the growing cocaine trade, Griselda Blanco is an example of how someone can rise to the top through sheer ruthlessness and ingenuity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that ruthlessness did not come without consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time she was finally murdered, she had spent years behind bars and had been reduced to a paranoid old woman. Of course, the suffering she experienced was nothing compared to the violence she meted out during her lifetime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For her victims, the Black Widow\u2019s legacy will continue to linger for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of drug traffickers, several men stand out as almost mythical figures \u2013 Pablo Escobar and Joaquin \u201cEl Chapo\u201d Guzman to name two of the most famous.\u00a0 But do you know who gave Pablo Escobar his start? Do you know who was the first narco trafficker to send cocaine into the United States? 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