“The only man I ever feared was a woman. Griselda Blanco,” the cocaine king Pablo Escobar himself was supposed to declare. These are the words that will greet you in the opening moments of the new series Griselda, which represents part of the wild life of a Colombian drug lord. In six episodes just released on Netflix.
The infamous Pablo Escobar has a much stronger ring to the European viewer, but the name Griselda Blanco evoked equal horror in the world of crime. The protagonist of the new Netflix series was one of the rulers of the drug underworld in Miami. The same creators who made it into an excellent series Narcos they changed Escobar’s fate, now they created for Netflix Griseldo.
Sofía Vergara will play the role of the “cocaine godmother”, as the dangerous woman was nicknamed. Griselda in half a dozen episodes, it looks at the criminal career of its central character in the United States, where Griselda Blanco went in search of new customers for Colombian drug production. And where she significantly contributed to the bloody conflict with the lawmen.
Griselda embarked on the path of crime at a young age, when she moved to Medellin with her mother and struggled with poverty. First as a pickpocket, later she got involved in the drug business. She headed to the United States already in the sixties, but the authorities discovered her illegal plans and Griselda fled back to Colombia. But a few years later, a return followed and the beginnings of a new drug empire, which you will see in the series.
Along with other dealers and gang bosses, she turned Miami in the early 1980s into a place where three-quarters of the cocaine and marijuana in the US came from. And also to the city, whose morgue capacity was not enough for the consequences of the drug conflict. That’s not an exaggeration by the way, but a literal description of what what happened. Authorities even had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King. Where did this cocaine craze lead? You will find out on Netflix.
