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

[Judi Lynn]

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.”

More: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/03//v-fullstory/2983362/cocaine-godmother-griselda-blanco.html#storylink=cpy

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[DonCoquixote]

1. Not sad to see this one go

You live by the drive by shooting, you die by it.

[barbtries]

2. i was shocked

that she was still alive. i think her sons all predeceased her, because of her. not a nice person, that one.

[catbyte]

3. Justice served so it would seem

I remember being horrified reading about how gleeful she was when the hitman hit the toddler instead. Good riddance.

[joshcryer]

4. Watch the Documentary Cocaine Cowboys. She was an evil, POS, vapid, cruel being.

No loss there.