“Cocaine godmother” Griselda Blanco gunned down in Colombia, media reports say

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Monday, 09.03.12
“Cocaine godmother” Griselda Blanco gunned down in Colombia, media reports say

By DAVID OVALLE
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Griselda Blanco, the drug kingpin known for her blood-soaked style of street vengeance during Miami’s “cocaine cowboys” era of the ’70s and ’80s, was shot to death in Medellin by motorcycle-riding assassins Monday, according to Colombian press reports.

Blanco, 69, spent nearly two decades behind bars in the United States for drug trafficking and three murders, including the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old boy shot in Miami in 1982.

Known as “The Godmother of Cocaine,” she was deported to Colombia in 2004.

According to Radio Caracol and two newspapers, El Espectador and El Tiempo, two gunmen on motorcycles unleashed a fatal hail of gunfire as she walked out of a butcher shop in Medellin, her hometown.

“It’s surprising to all of us that she had not been killed sooner because she made a lot of enemies,” former Miami homicide detective Nelson Andreu, who investigated her, said late Monday. “When you kill so many and hurt so many people like she did, it’s only a matter of time before they find you and try to even the score.”

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[jsr]

1. A true bloodthirsty monster

Rot in hell.

[originalpckelly]

3. She was a sick fuck...

They make it seem as if she was whacking people to do drug trade, she actually just liked having people killed.

This is the kind of person who'd kill someone and mutilate them for fun.

She was the real reason the drug war heated up.

[originalpckelly]

2. Closest thing to a monster.

We all should be scared we are somehow related to her.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. Holy shit!

[Poll_Blind]

5. OMG- I remember hearing about this crazy freak in "Cocaine Cowboys".

Truly scary individual.

PB

[Honeycombe8]

6. And the world is made a better place because of it. May she not R.I.P. nt

[nini]

7. way overdue

If there is a hell she is surely there.

[ejbr]

8. + 1 n/t

[Beacool]

9. Good riddance!!!!

She was evil.

Say hello in hell to all your cohorts.

[SoapBox]

10. Gee...after reading that story...

I hope she was, for even a split second of time, terrified out of her wits.

What comes around, goes around...freak.

[winstars]

11. She sorta caused the USA drug wars in the 80's by killing... everybody!!!

If the documentaries we have all seen are true, her bloodthirsty "methods" really caused things to get out of hand in Florida in the 80's and change the way the government fought the drug war due to the sheer body count caused by this nut job... IMHO, she gave the government the reason to curtail our freedoms to this day, not to mention how much money we have wasted over the years on the drug war(s).

Can't believe this POS lived to 69 whilst literally thousands died because of her.

See Ya!!!

[MrScorpio]

12. Live by the sword… It couldn't have happened to a better gal. nt

[Setsuna1972]

13. Wow...

I'm surprised she even survived THIS long after being deported back to Colombia...this woman was EVIL.

[hughee99]

17. +1

I'm surprised she lasted this long, she pissed off a lot of "the wrong people" in Colombia in addition to her atrocities in the US.

[slackmaster]

14. This story put the first smile of the day on my face

[Quantess]

15. Fascinating and gruesome.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Thaaaaaaaat's a shame

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