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If I weren't reading this for a book group discussion, I would have done the same thing I ended up doing with The Emperor of Ocean Park: put it down about a third of the way through out of fatigue. God bless you for your efforts, Professor Carter, but your editor needs to actually EDIT. There is such a thing as too much..more
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This second book in Stephen L. Carter's Elm Harbor series was fantastic! I actually liked this one a lot better than his first - The Emperor of Ocean Park. New England White was just as academic and multi-layered as Ocean Park, but it was a smoother read. It was fast-paced, more confident, intriguing, and full of highly-accomplished African-American elites. His characters' judgements about contemporary race relations and moralit..more
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New England White is a quite hefty novel and not necessarily an easy read. It caught my attention from the get-go because I love a good mystery, but all of the political talk decreased my interest. I commend Carter on crafting such a complicated storyline, but perhaps some aspects of the story remained unclear to me at the ending because of its intricacy. Nonetheless, I could not wait to discover who was behind the two deaths on which the novel focused.
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Back in Elm Harbour, Carter takes us through a mysterious set of murders, one in the present and one 30 years old. Characters vie for a better understandi..more
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Mugshot of Griselda Blanco, 1997 | |
| Born | February 15, 1943 Cartagena, Colombia[1] |
|---|---|
| Died | September 3, 2012 (aged 69) |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
| Nationality | Colombian |
| Other names | La Dama de la Mafia (The Lady of the Mafia) The Godmother The Black Widow |
| Net worth | U.S $2 billion (2012 estimate) |
| Criminal status | Deceased |
| Spouse(s) | Zulma Andino Trujillo Alberto Bravo Darío Sepúlveda Charles Cosby |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Ana Lucia Restrepo and Fernando Blanco |
| Criminal charge | Drug trafficking, murder |
| Medellín Cartel |
|---|
Griselda Blanco Restrepo[3] (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012), known as La Madrina, the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of Narco-Trafficking, was a Colombiandrug lord of the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocainedrug trade and underworld during the 1980s, all the way to the early 2000s. It has been estimated that she was responsible for up to 200 murders while transporting cocaine from Colombia to New York, Miami and Southern California.[4][5][6] She was shot and killed on September 3, 2012, at the age of 69.[6]
- 1Biography
- 3In popular culture
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Blanco was born in Santa Marta, Colombia, on the country's north coast. She and her mother, Ana Lucía Restrepo,[7] moved to Medellín when she was three years old. It didn't take long for Blanco to begin living a life of crime. Blanco's former lover, Charles Cosby, recounted that at the age of 11, Blanco allegedly kidnapped, attempted to ransom and eventually shot a child from an upscale flatland neighborhood near her own neighborhood.[1][8][9] Blanco had become a pickpocket before she even turned 13. To escape the sexual assaults from her mother's boyfriend, Blanco ran away from home at the age of 16 and resorted to looting in Medellín until the age of 20.[1][8]
Drug business[edit]
Blanco was a major figure in the history of the drug trade from Colombia to Miami, New York, and California.
In the mid-1970s, Blanco and her second husband Alberto Bravo illegally immigrated to the US with fake passports, settling in Queens, New York. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1975, Blanco was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates. She fled to Colombia before she could be arrested, but returned to the United States, settling in Miami in the late 1970s.
Blanco's return to the US from Colombia more or less coincided with the beginning of very public violent conflicts that involved hundreds of murders and killings yearly which were associated with the high crime epidemic that swept the City of Miami in the 1980s. Law enforcement's struggle to put an end to the influx of cocaine into Miami led to the creation of CENTAC 26 (Central Tactical Unit), a joint operation between Miami-Dade Police Department and DEA anti-drug operation.[10][11]
Blanco was involved in the drug-related violence known as the Miami Drug War or the Cocaine Cowboy Wars that plagued Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was a time when cocaine was trafficked more than marijuana.[12] It was the lawless and corrupt atmosphere, primarily created by Blanco's operations, that led to the gangsters being dubbed the 'Cocaine Cowboys' and their violent way of doing business as the 'Miami drug war'.
Her distribution network, which spanned the United States, brought in US$80,000,000 per month.[1] Her violent business style brought government scrutiny to South Florida, leading to the demise of her organization and the free-wheeling, high-profile Miami drug scene of those times.
In 1984, Blanco's willingness to use violence against her Miami competitors or anyone else who displeased her, led her rivals to make repeated attempts to assassinate her. In an attempt to escape the hits that were called on her, she fled to California.
Arrest[edit]
On February 17, 1985, she was arrested by DEA agents in her home and held without bail. After her trial, Blanco was sentenced to more than a decade in jail.[13] While in prison, she continued to effectively run her cocaine business with the help of her son Michael Blanco.
By pressuring one of Blanco's lieutenants, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office obtained sufficient evidence to indict Blanco for three murders. However, the case collapsed due to technicalities relating to a telephone-sex scandal between the star witness and female secretaries in the DA's office. In 2002, Blanco suffered a heart attack while imprisoned.[14]
In 2004, Blanco was released from prison and deported to Medellín, Colombia.[1] Before her death in 2012, the last sighting of Blanco was in May 2007 at the Bogotá Airport.[1]
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Murder[edit]
On the night of September 3, 2012, Blanco died after having been shot twice in the head by a motorcyclist in Medellín, Colombia.[15] She was shot at Cardiso butcher shop on the corner of 29th Street, after having bought $150 worth of meat; the middle-aged gunman climbed off the back of a motorbike outside the shop, entered, pulled out a gun, and shot Blanco twice in the head before calmly walking back to his bike and disappearing into the city.[16] She was 69.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Blanco's first husband was Carlos Trujillo. Together they had three sons, Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo,[1] all of them poorly educated,[14] and all of whom were killed in Colombia after being deported following prison sentences in the United States.[17]
Her second husband was Alberto Bravo. In 1975, Blanco confronted Bravo, who was also her business partner, in a Bogotá nightclub parking lot about millions of dollars missing from the profits of the cartel they'd built together. The Guardian reports: 'Blanco, then 32, pulled out a pistol, Bravo responded by producing an Uzisubmachine gun and after a blazing gun battle he and six bodyguards lay dead. Blanco, who suffered only a minor gunshot wound to the stomach, recovered and soon afterwards moved to Miami, where her body count – and reputation for ruthlessness – continued to climb.'[6]
Blanco had her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco, with her third husband, Darío Sepúlveda.[6] Sepúlveda left her in 1983, returned to Colombia, and kidnapped Michael when he and Blanco disagreed over who would take custody. Blanco paid to have Sepúlveda assassinated in Colombia, and her son returned to her in Miami.[17]
According to the Miami New Times, 'Michael's father and older siblings were all killed before he reached adulthood. His mom was in prison for most of his childhood and teenage years, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and legal guardians.'[17] In 2012, Michael was put under house arrest after a May arrest on two felony counts of cocaine trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in cocaine.[18]
Blanco was openly bisexual.[19][20][21] According to The New York Post, 'Court records show Blanco was a drug addict who consumed vast quantities of 'basuco', a potent form of smokeable, unrefined cocaine .. would force men and women to have sex at gunpoint, and had frequent bisexual orgies.' Her 'favorite possessions included an emerald and gold MAC-10machine pistol, Eva Perón's pearls and a tea set once used by the Queen of England'. X plane 11 product key. The report continues: 'In court, it was revealed that Blanco killed three former husbands as well as strippers, business rivals – and innocent bystanders, including a 4-year-old boy.'[14][6]
According to her youngest son Michael, Blanco became a born-again Christian.[22] She had a personal relationship with Anna Cruz, whom she loved as her daughter; Anna cut ties with her when she found out who Blanco really was.
In popular culture[edit]
Fashion[edit]
George of the jungle 2 full movie 123movies. Buffalo, New York artists Westside Gunn and Conway use Blanco's name in their label, Griselda by Fashion Rebels, abbreviated as GxFR.[23]
Films[edit]
Blanco features prominently in the documentary films Cocaine Cowboys (2006) and Cocaine Cowboys 2 (2008; also written as Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother).
An, as of yet, unreleased film titled The Godmother is currently in production, starring Catalina Sandino Morena as Blanco. Lynderah Paul plays Blanco in her late teens.[24]
HBO is developing a film with Jennifer Lopez attached to play the notorious drug lord. The film focuses on the rise and fall of 'The Cocaine Godmother'.[25]
Catherine Zeta-Jones filmed Cocaine Godmother, a television biopic on drug lord Griselda Blanco, which premiered in 2018 on Lifetime.[26][27]
Music[edit]
Rapper The Game references Griselda Blanco in his lyrics to 'See No Evil' - '..karma catches up to all you head honchos/Two dome shots to head, Griselda Blanco'
Rapper Pusha T references her in his lyrics to 'Pain' (2013) - 'Put your freedom over failure/Tryna find my Griselda (La Madrina!)/Might as well, they gon' nail ya/Momma screaming like Mahalia'
Rapper Jacki-O released a mixtape entitled Griselda Blanco, La Madrina (2010) as an ode to Blanco's lifestyle and character. Griselda Blanco's son, Michael Blanco, later gave his blessing to promote the mixtape.[28]
Rapper Lil Kim created alter ego 'Kimmy Blanco' as tribute to Blanco; Kim debuted this persona in her 2013 single of the same name.[29]
Toronto Eastside rap duo Pengz and Two Two released the single 'Griselda Blanco' in August 2017.[30]
Rap group Migos have made references to her in multiple songs, 'Portland' by Drake, and their own song 'F*** Up the Pot'.
Rapper YoungBoy Never Broke Again references her in “Slime Belief” (2018)- “Can you make it better/ trap out like Griselda/ post up with barettes/ hustlin through the night
Rapper Slimesito has a song named “Griselda” which contains multiple references to Blanco.
Literature[edit]
Blanco played a minor role in Marlon James' book A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014).[31]
Blanco played a significant role in Jon Roberts' book American Desperado (2011).[32]
Television[edit]
In Comedy Central's Drunk History, season 3, episode 2 ('Miami'), Dan Harmon tells the story of the rise and fall of Blanco, starring Maya Rudolph (as Blanco), Horatio Sanz, and Joe Lo Truglio.[33]
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Blanco is portrayed by Mexican actress Ana Serradilla in the Spanish-language telenovela La Viuda Negra (2014), an adaptation of the book La patrona de Pablo Escobar de José Guarnizo.
Jada Pinkett Smith used her as a model for her character Fish Mooney on Gotham.
Blanco was also featured among the Deadly Women top 10 as #3 on the killer countdown.[citation needed]
The television series Get Shorty features a character named Amara de Escalones (played by Lidia Porto), who is based on Blanco.
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Blanco was also featured on the Investigation Discovery series Evil Lives Here in an episode called 'The Last Blanco'.
A very fictionalized version of Blanco known as La Madrina appears in the Archer episode 'Smuggler's Blues' (Season 5, Episode 7).
Podcast[edit]
Griselda Blanco's life, from her abusive childhood to her tragic death, was covered on the June 5, 2018 episode of Behind the Bastards, a podcast hosted by Robert Evans.[34]
See also[edit]
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- Enedina Arellano Félix, another well-known female alleged cartel leader
References[edit]
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- ^''Cocaine Cowboys' Griselda Blanco, Real-Life 'Female Tony Montana,' Gunned Down in Colombia'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^'Comienza extinción de dominio a bienes de Griselda Blanco en Antioquia - RCN Radio'. RCN Radio (in Spanish). September 9, 2015. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
- ^'Griselda Blanco'. Biography.
- ^'The life and death of 'cocaine godmother' Griselda Blanco'. Miami Herald.
- ^ abcdefLuscombe, Richard (September 4, 2012). ''Godmother of cocaine' shot dead in Colombia (Griselda Blanco, thought to have ordered scores of murders in Miami's drug wars, is killed outside butcher's shop )'. The Guardian.
- ^'Her mother's name'. Semana (in Spanish).
- ^ abCorben, Billy (director); Cosby, Charles (himself); Blanco, Griselda (herself) (July 29, 2008). Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' with the Godmother (DVD). Magnolia Home Entertainment. ASINB00180R03Q. UPC876964001366. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^Cosby, Charles. 'Charles Cosby: From Early Childhood to Cocaine and Hustlin''. The Blog Union.
- ^Gugliotta, Guy; Leen, Jeff (July 16, 2011). Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellín Cartel - An Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money and International Corruption. Garrett County Press. Retrieved June 19, 2016 – via Google Books.
- ^'Griselda Blanco: hasta nunca y gracias por la coca'. VICE - España. Retrieved June 19, 2016.
- ^Corben, Billy (director); Roberts, Jon (actor); Sunshine, Al (actor); Burstyn, Sam (actor); Munday, Mickey (actor); Palumbo, Bob (actor) (January 23, 2007). Cocaine Cowboys (DVD). Magnolia Home Entertainment. ASINB000KLQUUS. UPC876964000635. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
- ^United States v. Griselda Blanco, 861 F.2d 773 (2d Cir. 1988)
- ^ abcLathem, Niles (June 8, 2000). 'QUEENS NOW RULE WHERE KINGPINS ONCE REIGNED: WOMEN ARE RUNNING DRUG RINGS AFTER FALL OF COLOMBIAN sex CARTELS'. New York Post.
- ^Luscombe, Richard (September 4, 2012). ''Godmother of cocaine' shot dead in Colombia'. The Guardian. Retrieved March 3, 2014.
- ^Robles, Frances & Bargent, James (September 5, 2012). 'The life and death of 'cocaine godmother' Griselda Blanco'. Miami Herald.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ abcAlvarado, Francisco (October 13, 2011). 'Michael Corleone Blanco lives in the shadow of his cocaine-queen mother'. Miami New Times. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ^Alvarado, Francisco (September 5, 2012). 'Griselda Blanco's Son Michael Corleone Still Faces Cocaine Trafficking Charge in Miami'. Miami New Times. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
- ^Swartz, James A. Substance Abuse in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide. p. 193.
- ^Hornberger, Francine. Mistresses of mayhem: the book of women criminals. p. 32.
- ^Morton, James. The Mammoth Book of Gangs.
- ^''Cocaine Cowboys' Griselda Blanco, Real-Life 'Female Tony Montana', Gunned Down in Colombia'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 16, 2017.
- ^'HOME'. griseldaxfr.com. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^'On the Set for 6/29/15: Justin Lin Rolls Cameras on 'Star Trek Beyond', Emilia Clarke Wraps 'Me Before You''. ssninsider.com. June 29, 2015. Archived from the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
- ^Wagmeister, Elizabeth (August 10, 2016). 'Jennifer Lopez to Star as Drug Lord Griselda Blanco in HBO Film'. Variety. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^Evans, Greg (May 18, 2017). 'Lifetime Greenlights 'Cocaine Godmother' Starring Catherine Zeta-Jones'. Deadline.com. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^Brown, Scott (June 6, 2017). 'Hollywood North: Catherine Zeta-Jones filming 'Cocaine Godmother' in Vancouver'. The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
- ^'Jacki-O Declares Everything Is Cool With Her And 'The Godmother' Griselda Blanco'. Hip-Hop Wired.
- ^Fitzgerald, Trent. 'Lil' Kim Premieres New Single, 'Hardcore 2K13′ Tracklist'. The BoomBox. Retrieved February 3, 2017.
- ^Triple M (August 17, 2017), Pengz x TwoTwo - Griselda Blanco (Official Video) (Prod. By JP Soundz), retrieved September 13, 2017
- ^James, Marlon (November 1, 2014). A Brief History of Seven Killings. Oneworld Publisher. ISBN978-1594486005.
- ^Roberts, Jon & Wright, Evan (November 1, 2011). American Desperado. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN0-307-45042-2.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
- ^'The Godmother of Cocaine'. Comedy Central. September 8, 2015. Retrieved September 13, 2015.
- ^'The Cocaine Queen of Miami'. Behind the Bastards. June 5, 2018. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
Sources[edit]
- Smitten, Richard (November 1, 1990). The Godmother: the true story of the hunt for the most bloodthirsty female criminal of our time. Pocket Books. ISBN978-0-671-70193-2. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved October 3, 2010.nbdhdjdriwlebf
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