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Originally Posted by Sly
Her Wiki doesn't say it but I'm wondering if she was tied into the Medellin Cartel. My bet says yes... they were very powerful in their day.
There are actually quite a few prominent gang lords throughout history that were women. Some of the fiercest. There was a black woman in Harlem in the early 1900s that ran numbers that had extreme power.
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She knew Pablo Escobar, I watched her documentary and they said he used to visit her mansion in Miami and even used to rub the statue of herself in the foyer whenever he visited for good luck.
I think the Medellin cartel was her drug connection. A lot of articles online say she trafficked for them and her first husband (whom she killed) was a trafficker for them.
An excerpt from an article from the Washington Post :
"Even in that milieu, the Trujillo-Blanco brothers stood apart. They were from the supply side of the cocaine world, sons of Griselda Blanco, a leader of a large organization affiliated with the Medellin drug cartel, the original Colombian cocaine-exporting group based in the city of Medellin. They would become Edmond's new Colombian cocaine connection, a replacement for his suppliers from the Cali cartel -- a second, upstart cocaine-exporting group that he had helped make a major competitor of the Medellin group in this country."
From
http://www.askmen.com/top_10/enterta...p_10_list.html
As the undisputed “Cocaine Queen of Miami,” the brutal, ruthless and probably psychotic Blanco proved a highly effective trafficker for the Medellin Cartel, amassing a personal fortune estimated at $500 million.