Griselda Blanco Essays

TGriselda Blanco was a notorious drug lord from Colombia who rose to the top of the underworld with her ruthlessness and resourcefulness. She earned the nickname "La Madrina," or "The Godmother," for arranging some of the most daring, complex smuggling operations of her time - all while exhibiting an airy nonchalance toward authority and its effects on her empire. Her dark legacy lives on despite her death in 2012, remembered as one of the most compelling figures in criminal history. Griselda Blanco

The captivating life of Griselda Blanco One of the most known female criminal in America is Griselda Blanco.Blanco had many alias names such as the queen of cocaine and the godmother. Blanco was born in the slums of Medellin, Colombia. Blanco was a well known drug trafficker. She trafficked cocaine throughout America. According to Bio (2016), "she became involved with Colombia's infamous Medellin Cartel, helping to push Colombian cocaine throughout the United States, specifically to New York, Miami

The Hostile Life of Griselda Blanco Griselda Blanco known to be the world's first women drug trafficker. She was born February 15, 1943, in Cartagena, Colombia. She grew up in an abusive environment, and her mom would sell her for sexual activities for money. Running away from all of this she met her first husband, Carlos Trujillo. He was the one that introduced her into drug trafficking in the first place. She was known as "La Madrina", "The Black Widow", and "The Cocaine Godmother" (Halperin)

Griselda Blanco was born February 15, 1943 in Cartagena, Colombia, and she died on September 3rd, 2012 when she was sixty-nine years old, she also emigrated in the United States with her second husband in 1970 and she had four sons. Giselda Blanco had a lot of nick names but one that they would call her the most was “La Viuda Negra” which stands for “black widow”. They would call her that because she was married 2 times and she killed all her husbands; she would confess that she killed them because

As Griselda grew up she was experiencing developmental psychology, the development of an individual through the course of their life. She has experienced abuse from a parent and is a criminal all before reaching adulthood, she also a very terrible financial status. Her and her mother were poor and they lived in a poor neighborhood. There was also a lot of violence going on around the country due to the civil war, all the violence she witnesses, the abuse, and their financial status would cause her

Sofia was born September 18, 1977 in a small little town in Mesoamerica, called Ixtlán del Río, Nayarit. Sofia was a very curious, troubled, and independent child. Sofia didn’t really have the best childhood. Her parents were very strict, especially her father, who abused her with a belt from time to time. They sheltered her from the world. Not to mention, her sisters harassed her constantly removing a shirt borrowed of theirs in front of dirty men who laughed at the exposure of a little girl throwing

himself to the harsh realities of actually completing this journey. On the other hand, characters like Delaney and even more so, Jack Cherrystone, have an abundance of ‘things’. With the exception of one or two characters, the entire community of Arroyo Blanco is compelled by the idea of furthering the isolation between themselves and the ‘intruders’, in order to keep their things safe. The difference in all these character’s isolation depends entirely on how much each person has, and the possibility of

Comparison of Substance Abuse Among Female Offender Subtypes. J Am Acad Psychiatry law. 30, 513-519. Retrieved, http://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/30/4/513.full.pdf. Tregunna, A. (2014). Cocaine cowgirl: The outrageous life and mysterious death of Griselda Blanco, the godmother of Medellin. Trends in Organized Crime, 17(1), 132-134. References United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (1998). [FBI documents regarding Bonnie and Clyde]. Washington D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation. VariousVidz

"I don't mind helping. If I could bring in 1,000 pounds of cocaine at a time to make people happy, what's to say I couldn't bring in 1,000 pounds of something that could really hurt them? he says. "I've never made fun of law enforcement; they were never my enemy. I just took advantage of some of their weaknesses."- Mickey Monday In this review I will be going over the film Cocaine Cowboys. I will be discussing the films strengths and weaknesses, what I know about the information talked about in

Drug trafficking is the mass-production of drugs in one country distributed to another for expected profit. The notorious bosses of the drug trafficking at the time were the infamous Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and Griselda Blanco. The two main smuggled drugs were cocaine and marijuana. They were smuggled by plane, boat, and human mules. To hide the abundant profits they’d money launder, hide money in safe, and even went to the extent of having their money built into house walls just to avoid the

depression is what caused crime rate to increase so rapidly.There was many cities that were high in crime, but Chicago and Harlem New York were the main ones. In the 1930’s Gangs were created to protect each other. John Dillinger, Al Capone, Griselda Blanco, and Rosetta Cutolo were some of the well known gang members. The Mob and the Mafia were two of the well known, well organized criminal groups. Violence in the 1930’s was so desperate, that the outlaws could have there way whenever they wanted

several metric tons of cocaine, and it is rumored that in one day he sold $3 million worth of cocaine. At his peak, his net worth was upwards of $1 billion. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1996, but he was released in 2009. Number Nine: Griselda Blanco. The only woman

Drug kingpin Jimenez Panesso and his bodyguard and Juan Hernandez for not paying his debt to the God mother. Jorge “Riva” Ayala and Miguel Velez (aka) Cumbamba were enforcers for Blanco. There were many people who were killed at the hands of both Riva and Cumbamba. Cumbamba was one of the most feared hitman. He was would come up with most horrific ways of killing people such as: draining the blood from dismembered corpses to be

HOW MUCH DOES THE WAR ON DRUGS COST AMERICA EACH YEAR INTROUCTION Despite to the U.S. Government to eliminate drugs in America, the cost of fighting the drug wars continues to escalate. War on drugs twisted our world around completely, people who make drugs or sells drugs should really think twice about their careers. Most People will say these drugs cure them and the states but in reality it’s destroying them and their government. A. “WAR ON DRUGS” or “WAR ON PEOPLE” The U.S. Government Wanted To

Murder, Money, and mayhem this was Miami’s culture in the 70s. An interesting era in Miami, an era of growth, an era of development, an era of drugs and an abundant of violence. The 70s were iconic, without this era Miami wouldn’t be Miami. The Ochoas, Escobars, Mejias might as well be deemed the creators of the Miami we know today. They fueled the industry that would fund metropolitan vacation spot that Miami is today. Money and corruption lured many to the warm beaches, and the drugs kept them