Griselda Blanco
Local 10 to air special, ‘Griselda: The Real Madrina’
Local 10 recently traveled to the winding streets of Medellin, Colombia, into barrio Antioquia, where a young Griselda Blanco was coming of age decades ago.
Griselda archives: War trauma fuels savagery of Colombia’s 1st major drug cartel
War followed Griselda Blanco. She was born in Colombia’s Caribbean region of Cartagena-Santa Marta where the use of violence over agrarian disputes and smuggling highly dictated bipartisan politics.
Griselda archives: Cocaine wars in Miami came with wild-west-style shootouts amid competition for crown
In northern Bogotá, Colombia, in a posh neighborhood, a woman clad in soft beige walked in high heels out of a two-story house with armed guards to investigate who was spying on her in the 1980s. Detectives identified her as Veronica Rivera de Vargas, better known as Bogotá's “Queen of Cocaine.”