Griselda Blanco

On Netflix? Oh.

And then Xavier is asking, who's Griselda Blanco? Just, I guess, it depends.

If you're over 18, yeah, if you're over 18, do some research.

If not, wait until you're over 18.

It's often said women have to work twice as hard as men to get half the credit.

But what happens when you take that logic and apply it not to the world of work, but to the criminal underworld? To a world where results are measured not in spreadsheets, but in kilos of coke shifted and rivals murdered? Well, you might get someone like Griselda Blanco.

born in poverty in colombia blanco rose up from a life of petty crime to become the head of a vast narcotics empire at a height she controlled a distribution network that stretched from the coco fields of bolivia via the slums of medellin to all corners of the usa At a time when Pablo Escobar was just some punk-ass nobody, Blanco was the godmother of cocaine.

Yet in this macho world, it wasn't enough for a woman to be merely powerful.

She also had to master unbelievable violence.

Implicated in some 250 murders, Blanco almost single-handedly helped turn early 80s Miami into a war zone.

Both a doting mother and a killer without an ounce of mercy in her soul, this is the life of Griselda Blanco, cocaine's most notorious queenpin.

Although most of her adult life would be minutely documented in court transcripts, wiretaps, and witness statements, little is known of Griselda Blanco's early years.

He ended up being one of the coolest guys that I met through Charles.

I met Griselda Blanco through him.

I met Michael Corleone Blanco, who does stuff with Cookie Fam now for no reason because he was in the Swedes.

their cousin Christian they mostly Griselda wanted me to make her a fan site and I was like okay I might do that and then Michael Corleone's like no no no no no I need you to build me a record label website for my record label and I'm like I'm not doing that for free no that's that's not gonna happen son but Yeah, it

Is this a documentary, I guess? Yeah.

Yeah, there's

Cocaine Cowboys 1 that's about Griselda Blanco and her essentially giving Pablo Escobar a start and bringing cocaine to America.

Yeah.

They would have two children, Juan and Manuela.

It was in the mid-1970s, shortly before his marriage to Maria, that Pablo first became involved in the growing cocaine trade when he was brought into the business by another smuggler named Griselda Blanco.

Cocaine had been something of a niche drug in the United States in the 1960s, with other narcotics such as marijuana, LSD, and heroin proliferating to a much greater extent.

However, in the 1970s, the use of cocaine exploded across the country.

We'll leave you with this today.

Today in 2012, Colombian drug trafficker Griselda Blanco, who was a leading figure in the Miami drug scene in the 70s and 80s.

She was known as the godmother of cocaine.

She eventually, when she got out of Miami, she would set up shop in Oakland.

She was slaying a lot of yayo out of the 510.

Griselda Blanco murdered So many people.

She had them murdered.

She was a bad, bad woman.

And so now we got this truck.

The name of the truck is Griselda Blanco.

OK.

Yeah.

OK.

You know, the.

I know who Griselda Blanco is.

You know who Griselda is? Okay, a lot of people don't, but...

All right.

The woman on the pavement was Griselda Blanco.

And today we are tearing apart the historical record for this deep dive to figure out how, you know, a, a destitute child from Medellín built a logistics and smuggling empire so massive that it fundamentally altered American law enforcement.

Yeah.

I mean, in the corporate world, you execute a hostile takeover by quietly buying up majority voting shares.

Ugh.

In Griselda Blanco's world, you do it with a firearm.

And look at the structural result of that shootout.

Funny enough, you mentioned that.

My wife and I, we binge watch the Netflix series Griselda.

I thought you

were going to say Narco or whatever.

that.

It stars Sofia Vergara, and she plays...

It's about Griselda Blanco, who was a drug lord in Miami in the early 80s, I believe.

Yeah.

There's at least, like, four I could think of

you know they did you know they did that they started that right in la too like um i went to the school account cowan avenue elementary and they had this griselda blanco's son actually went there um but uh skip that but uh they had this program it was like a rock band and This dude Mark will run it.

And he'll teach all the kids how to play different instruments and shit.

And I'll be on the, I'll be after school the way my mom picked me up.