Before there was Pablo Escobar , El Chapo and other cocaine leaders there was Griselda Blanco, a drug lord who was one of the first pioneers in the cocaine drug trade. La Dama de la Mafia, The Godmother, The Black Widow, Cocaine Queen of Miami, La Madrina, The Mafia Lady, and The Cocaine Godmother was only some of the alias that was given to Griselda Blanco.
Marta Griselda Blanco was born on February 15,1954 in Cartagena, Colombia. At the age of three, her mother who was in the prostitution industry decided to move to Medellin, Colombia. Where she was abused by her mother, she decided to leave her side and live in the street. She became a criminal when she was only 11 years old. Blanco decided to kidnap a 10 year old boy from a very wealthy …show more content…
She killed about 200 people. Blanco invented a favorite method of assassination for my drug lords “Motorcycle Assassin”, where two men armed assassins on a motorcycle gun down their victims as they drive by. She created this method since in Medellin there was heavy traffic and this way they can just speed through traffic.
Over $80 million was what Blanco’s industry would cross to the United States each month. The methods that she used are still being used today. She was involved in many criminal events in Miami, she was involved in Columbian drug trade as well as participating in several drive by shooting and murders that had to do with drugs, money and power. Her gangsters were given a name “Cocaine Cowboys”.
In the 1980s Blanco lived comfortably in a home in Miami she had become a millionaire while trafficking cocaine, and was known as “The Godmother”. With a $150 million dollar net worth she would be hosting parties that would last between 2 to 3 days, obviously as everyone did cocaine. One of the well known parties that she hosted was orgies. It was known that Blanco was