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Any of the names he used or by which he was known caused dread. In his closest circle was Griselda Blanco, but in the world of underworld and cocaine trafficking in Miami - the gateway for drugs from Colombia to the huge United States market since the early 1970s, which was when Griselda began to acting as a capo connected to the Medellín cartel - she was known as La Madrina, La Viuda Negra or La Reina de la Cocaína.

He ran the entire business, made $ 8 million a month, and since 1973 was on the DEA's list of criminals under surveillance, as a potential builder of a drug empire. Empire that, to a large extent, built with blood and lead: the known figures indicate that, in less than a decade of activity, it introduced drugs to the United States for 10 billion dollars a year. He filled the streets of the cities with white dust like no other.

In the history of the famous drug traffickers, those who generated the greatest volume of business and signed the greatest atrocities in the distribution of coca, those responsible for the large Colombian cartels and, later, the Mexicans, usually appear in the foreground. Pablo Escobar and his successors, in short.

White, in another image.

But when it comes to how cocaine began to enter the United States - a story that has been covered extensively by cinema and journalism, mainly in Robert Sabbag's long report Ciego de Nieve - there is a name that is at hand. cruel height of all those narcos and that is less known, although it is terribly bloody. Now, the life of Griselda Blanco will be taken to the cinema by Jennifer Lopez, who will be cast in the role of The Godmother - that is the provisional title of the film - and will also finance the project as executive producer.

Griselda Blanco's story has all the ingredients of an epic narrative capable of sustaining her gaze to the fiction of Tony Montana, the narco-fiction of the Brain film from Palma, The Price of Power ( Scarface ). Born in Medellín in 1943, the daughter of a disowned and alcoholic mother , she lived in destitution until her adolescence, begging and prostituting herself . It was then that she understood that men could be a tool to escape poverty and prosper.

Prostitution was a first trial that led him down his ruthless path of utilizing the wishes of others for his own benefit. He learned to steal and used his position in the prostitution market in Medellín to reach the circle of drug traffickers looking for young meat: he met a certain Carlos, who worked for a drug dealer named Alberto Bravo, and with him began a relationship both loving as a professional that will take him, after a while, to Miami, at the moment when Carlos becomes one of the cartel's trusted men to manage the entrance door of coca into the United States.

Carlos died shortly after arriving in Miami from hepatitis , and that brought Griselda closer to the chief in Colombia, Alberto Bravo. He was the second in a long series of husbands, who disappeared when they were no longer needed, and who gave him a very long offspring. It was at this time that she became the person in charge of the business in the United States, and based on cunning, force and fire, coca began to flow in the mid-1970s. Towards the end of the decade her name was legendary for its cruelty: no He had qualms about liquidating competitors, disloyal soldiers, and anyone suspected of a double game, and he also used his power to satisfy his own lust.

The drug trafficker, in the photo of her mugshot.

They say that he was insensitive to any emotion because of the cruel life he had led in Colombia, but that he needed sex at all hours, with both men and women. Anecdotes are told that he sometimes demanded oral sex at gunpoint, or that he came to decapitate - like a mantis - some men he slept with. They are surely apocryphal stories, but they give a bloodthirsty aura to a character who, surely, did not need more added cruelty. Even his dog, a German shepherd, came to be called Hitler.

Her story is deeply explained in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys II (2006), released when she was still alive and finally deported to Colombia. He founded a paramilitary force of hitmen in Miami, Los Pistoleros, and liquidated any competition by force of gunshots and beheadings, as in the Dadeland massacre (1979), where he took control of the business but definitely attracted the attention of the DEA, that he would go after her and get her put in jail in 1985.

During the years in which he served his sentence, however, he held the reins of the business, supported by his children - he called one of them, in celebration of his Godmother status, no less than Michael Corleone - and by his sporadic ones. husbands. The arrest, however, was the beginning of the end of her royal power: in 2004 she was released from prison - her death sentence was forgiven in exchange for disappearing from American soil forever - and she returned to Colombia.

In 2012, she was murdered by two shootings at close range in a Medellín market, surely a settling of accounts pending many years before.

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