"Come out and mix, sooner or later you have to pay it back." This popular phrase from a Hong Kong gangster-themed film could not be more apt to describe the life of Griserda Blanco, a Colombian drug lord who killed countless people in the past.
Grizzerda Blanco
On September 3, 2012, Blanco was about to leave the store after buying meat when a middle-aged man on a motorcycle walked into the butcher shop, pulled out a revolver, fired two shots at her in the head, and rode away on a motorcycle driven by another man.
When the police revealed the identity of the deceased to the shopkeeper, the owner could not believe that this long-time regular customer was the "godmother of cocaine" who had been in the Miami drug trafficking circle and had blood on her hands, and one of the first female drug traffickers to sell cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.
The rise of the "godmother of cocaine"
Most of Blanco's life was full of violence, bloodshed and sin. Born on February 15, 1943, to a poor family in the Colombian port city of Cartagena, a mother of alcoholics who often punched and kicked Blanco, she learned at a young age the sophistication and pungency necessary for a life on the streets.
At the age of 11, Blanco, already a seasoned child prostitute, kidnapped a ten-year-old rich boy with a group of bad boys, and because his family failed to pay the ransom within the specified time, Blanco did not hesitate to pull the trigger and beat the boy to death, becoming the youngest female murderer in Colombia at that time.
Because of her young age, Blanco was released after spending some time in a juvenile correctional facility, and then became a professional pickpocket, escaping at the age of 14 from her mother, who often beat and scolded her, to make a living from prostitution. At the age of 20, Blanco met Trujillo, a habitual criminal who forged U.S. visas, and married him.
Relying on fake visas, the two traveled to New York and began smuggling marijuana from Colombia to the United States. Soon she discovered that the cocaine market "money scene" was broader, and that cocaine was easier to carry than marijuana. In order to establish a drug trafficking network in New York, Trujillo introduced Blanco to Bravo, a member of a drug cartel.
As the drug trafficking network grew, the fate of the two also came to an end. During a verbal altercation over human smuggling, Blanco shot Trujillo in the mouth and killed him. Since then, Blanco and his three sons have independently run a drug trafficking network.
A few years later, she was prosecuted by the U.S. federal government for smuggling cocaine, and to evade legal sanctions, she returned to Colombia to take refuge. But not long after, Blanco hooked up with Bravo, a member of the drug cartel whom her ex-husband introduced, and got married.
After getting married, Blanco and Bravo sneaked back to the United States and then shipped Colombian cocaine to New York in a private jet, which was also the beginning of The South American cocaine's northward journey to the United States.
Not long after, in April 1975, Blanco and 30 of his men were again wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on suspicion of involvement in the largest cocaine smuggling case in the United States at the time. Blanco had to flee back to Colombia until 1979, when he smuggled himself into Miami, Florida to return to his old business.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, cocaine replaced marijuana as a mainstream drug in the United States. During that time, there was a drug trafficking frenzy in Miami, the Cocaine Cowboy War, which was closely linked to Blanco's drug cartel.
At the time, Blanco's drug cartel recruited gunmen for high pay to "escort" the drug business, and the method of killing people on motorcycles was invented by Blanco during this period.
In order to facilitate the transportation of drugs, Blanco also opened a women's underwear factory in Colombia, specializing in the production of underwear with hidden bags so that female drug carriers can evade airport security and bring them into the United States.
The combination of vicious tactics and covert drug trafficking methods has led to blanco's drug business, and its drug distribution network covers the entire United States.
But as the drug business grew larger, her husband Bravo also died at the hands of Blanco due to uneven sharing of the spoils. By this time, U.S. drug circles had begun to call her the "godmother of cocaine."
Stained with blood
The competition for the drug market is fierce, and Blanco's method is to kill people. Police records show that she was behind nearly 40 murders, with at least 200 lives on her hands. His bad deeds cover Colombia and the U.S. states of Florida, New York and California, including sending people to assassinate rivals at the Miami airport.
This is very much in line with Blanco's "philosophy of life": fierceness.
Competitors, kill!
Those who owe money and do not pay it back, kill!
Debt collectors from her, kill!
Make her unhappy, kill!
In July 1979, two men drove to a liquor store in a Miami shopping mall and unsuccessfully collected a debt from Blanco. A short time later, an armored bulletproof car stopped in front of the shopping mall, and the two gunmen on the car went straight into the liquor store and fired wildly at the two men who were collecting debts.
The creditor dies, and the debt is naturally written off. Sometimes, Blanco would kill people on a whim, such as having strippers participate in a carnival and then ordering them to be killed for fun. Blanco's increasingly bloated body and bloodthirsty nature, no man dared to be close to her, so she forced men to make love to her with a gun.
In 1982, Blanco ordered the removal of another drug dealer, Jesse. Ayala, the gunman she hired, tracked Jesse down the road and shot at his car. Luckily Jesse threw off the gunman, but his three-year-old son, who was sleeping in the back seat of the car, was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died.
Because of his status as a drug dealer, Jesse could not call the police. Later, Ayala, the gunman who carried out the murder, was arrested by the police, and the confession said that it was Blanco who ordered him to get rid of Jesse because Jesse kicked her son's ass, which meant disrespecting her.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Schlesinger, who prosecuted Blanco, said it was difficult to determine exactly how many people she had killed. "She's a total sociopath who can kill people anytime, anywhere."
Former Drug Control Agent Palombo was one of the heroes who brought Blanco to justice. Blanco in his eyes has a charm that can "hypnotize the human heart".
"She seduces you with her cleverness and makes people loyal to follow her, and this loyalty also has an element of fear: the people who work for her know that she can absolutely do the things she tells people to do."
With cruelty and trickery, she has become more and more "prestigious" in the circle, and has many nicknames: "Godmother", "Black Widow", "Cocaine Cowgirl", "Female Leader"...
Penalty is finally awarded
Like many gang leaders in the United States, Blanco has repeatedly escaped justice despite his crimes. One day in February 1985, she was finally arrested by the U.S. federal government for drug trafficking and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In 1994, after being released from prison, Blanco was extradited to Miami-Dade County, Miami, where she faced three first-degree murder charges, each of which could kill her, and a dramatic scene occurred just as many thought the guilty Blanco would be executed.
As one of the witnesses to the prosecution's indictment of Blanco, her former gunman Ayala played "phone sex" with a female secretary in the Florida attorney's office. After the scandal broke, the authenticity of Ayala's testimony was questioned by the defense.
Prosecutors reached an agreement with Blanco's defense attorneys to give him a light sentence in order to "cover up the ugliness," and Blanco was subsequently held in Florida for several years before being deported back to Colombia after his release in 2004.
After being repatriated to Colombia, Blanco returned to Medellín for retirement, where her residence was located in a heavily guarded, high-end residential area surrounded by bamboo in the valley. The building's security guard told Colombian media: "The people who live here are very rich, no one knows who they are and where the money comes from." It's very private. ”
Blanco lived a low-key life, went out on the streets without bodyguards, and never showed off his wealth. She frequents the Cardisso butcher shop near her residence, where employees have no idea that the old patron was once a murderous female drug lord.
Blanco's last "appearance" was in the Colombian capital in 2007, when her photograph was sent to the creators of the film Cocaine Cowboy 2, which tells the story of her criminal career.
"Her appearance has changed a lot (from the past) and she looks fat," said witnesses who witnessed her killing. He was surprised that her enemies had allowed her to live in peace for so long, and he speculated that the reason was that during her long years in prison, many of them had died before her, and "people stopped paying attention to her." ”
As it turns out, there are still people who are "obsessed" with Blanco, and her regular life like a normal person makes it easier for pursuers to find opportunities. The law did not punish her well, but life did not spare this killer demon.
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