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There was a recently aired documentary on her on one of the NBC channels. She was bad news back in the apex of Miami's drug scene.
1 posted on 09/04/2012 7:25:23 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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Justice has been served.


2 posted on 09/04/2012 7:26:50 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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“Well.....bye.”


3 posted on 09/04/2012 7:27:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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Obama taking over the trade.


4 posted on 09/04/2012 7:27:52 AM PDT by dalebert
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There was a documentary on HBO call “Cocaine Cowboys” about how coke destroyed and also built Miami. She was featured. Riveting documentary.


5 posted on 09/04/2012 7:28:20 AM PDT by Tulane
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6 posted on 09/04/2012 7:30:36 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (The)
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I saw that documentary. The one dude who somehow survived a meeting with her, in which he was to be executed (before the Godmother changed her mind)... as he was relating the story, you could still see the abject terror in his eyes at the mention of her name.


7 posted on 09/04/2012 7:31:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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Blanco seemed destined for Florida’s Death Row — but the prosecution’s murders case was dealt a severe blow. The reason: Ayala — the case’s chief witness — engaged in phone sex with secretaries from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. After an investigation, three secretaries were fired and a veteran prosecutor resigned.

For that alone, Ayala should have rode the lightning.

9 posted on 09/04/2012 7:33:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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I can’t believe she’s survived this long. For a thug, she’s had a long life. I haven’t seen NBC’s documentary, but did watch “Cocaine Cowboys”. My ex-husband was from Ft. Lauderdale, and his family lived through those times in the 70s and 80s.


13 posted on 09/04/2012 7:36:33 AM PDT by TennesseeGirl
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Its amazing she lasted as long as she did. Pablo Escobar got assassinated by “Columbian cops” (likely actually American Operators) ... why not her?

Should’ve been taken-out a long time ago.

SnakeDoc


14 posted on 09/04/2012 7:40:07 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens, Justified)
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better late than never?


16 posted on 09/04/2012 7:41:16 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Who will bury this evil woman?


18 posted on 09/04/2012 7:45:08 AM PDT by txrefugee
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No sympathy from me. Good riddance.


20 posted on 09/04/2012 7:49:19 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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Not a very nice retirement.


25 posted on 09/04/2012 8:02:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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'One man pumped two bullets into her head, according to El Colombiano newspaper. It was the sort of death many had predicted for her: Blanco has been credited with inventing the idea of the “motorcycle assassin” who rode by victims and sprayed them with bullets.'

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. -Steve Jobs

28 posted on 09/04/2012 8:16:21 AM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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Trying to get back into the biz after all these years? Probably the younger generation didn’t like her trying to horn in on their action.


29 posted on 09/04/2012 8:25:09 AM PDT by jakerobins
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Enjoy Hell you evil b*tch.


31 posted on 09/04/2012 8:34:23 AM PDT by youngidiot (The name's Bond. James Bond. James Bond Jovi.)
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33 posted on 09/04/2012 8:50:09 AM PDT by kcvl
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34 posted on 09/04/2012 8:50:20 AM PDT by kcvl
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Charles Cosby, recounts how she, at age 11, allegedly kidnapped, tried to ransom, and eventually shot a child from the upscale flatland neighborhood near her hillside slum neighborhood. By her preteens, she had become a pickpocket, and at the age of 14 she ran away from her physically abusive mother and resorted to prostitution for a few years in Medellín, until age 20. She married her first husband, Carlos Trujillo, at that time, and bore him three sons: Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo.

In the mid-1970s, Blanco and her second husband, Alberto Bravo, emigrated to the United States, settling in Queens, New York. They established a sizable cocaine business there, and in April 1975, Blanco was indicted on federal drug conspiracy charges along with 30 of her subordinates, at that time the biggest cocaine case in history. She fled to Colombia before she could be arrested, but in the late 1970s she returned to Miami.

Blanco was involved in much of the drug-related violence known as the Cocaine Cowboy Wars that plagued Miami in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when cocaine supplanted marijuana. Her distribution network, which spanned the United States, brought in US$8 million per month. Blanco’s violent business style brought government scrutiny to South Florida, leading to the demise of her organization and the free-wheeling, high profile Miami drug scene of those times. She is suspected of having masterminded over 200 murders during this time in Dade County.

In 1984, Blanco’s willingness to use violence against her Miami competitors, or anyone who displeased her, led her rivals to make repeated attempts to kill her. She moved to California to escape the assassination attempts. On 20 February 1985, she was arrested by DEA agents in her home. Held without bail, Blanco was sentenced to more than a decade in jail. She continued to run her cocaine business while in jail. By pressuring one of her lieutenants, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office obtained sufficient evidence to indict her for three murders. However, the case collapsed, largely due to technicalities, and Blanco was released from prison and deported to Colombia in 2004. Before her death in 2012, she was last seen in Bogota Airport in 2007 where a photo was taken of her.

Blanco bore her youngest son, Michael Corleone Blanco, with Dario Sepulveda. Dario left Blanco in 1983 and returned to Colombia, kidnapping Michael when he and Griselda disagreed about who would take custody. Blanco paid to have Dario assassinated in Colombia, and had her son returned to her in Miami. According to a report in Miami New Times, “Michael’s father and older siblings were all killed before he reached adulthood. His mom was in prison for most of his childhood and teenage years, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother and legal guardians.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Blanco


35 posted on 09/04/2012 8:55:01 AM PDT by kcvl
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It’s a streach to refer to THAT as a she!!!


38 posted on 09/04/2012 9:14:00 AM PDT by ontap
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