Griselda Blanco: The Cocaine Godmother

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Source/Further reading:
Vice, article on Blanco by Cocaine Cowboys director: www.vice.com/en/article/3b5jz...
Miami Herald obituary: www.miamiherald.com/latest-ne...
Real Narcos podcast episode: www.noiser.com/realnarcos 
Biography, overview: www.biography.com/crime-figur...
RefractMag: www.refractmag.com/read/2017/...
Guardian: www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Life of Michael Corleone Blanco: www.miaminewtimes.com/news/mi...
Case against Blanco: sherloc.unodc.org/cld/case-la...
Phone sex scandal: apnews.com/article/d2783734bf...
Daily Beast: www.thedailybeast.com/griseld...

[@deathwings51]

This woman was so incorrigible that she not only dragged her sons into it but also I doubt she felt any sadness or remorse when all 3 of them died. People like her usually end up caring only for themselves in the end.

[@KS-PNW]

She had 4 kids, one is still living fyi

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

@@KS-PNW Yes, but he was only 8 years old when she was arrested. Griselda gave birth to 4 sons. He is the youngest son.

[@mementomorgan6721]

@@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685 that doesn’t change that one is still living so why the “but” 💀

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

@@mementomorgan6721 He was in prison also. He is very rich. He has money but doesn't have a family.

[@familyfirst1364]

Narcissistic

[@qrufus]

Her son Michael appeared on an episode of a program called "Evil Lives Here". The overall theme of the show is about the relatives of murderers discussing about their time with them. If they ever knew or suspected what their relative was up to. From Michael's appearance, it seemed like he knew that his overall life was different from other kids. But, he REALLY figured things out when his father was killed in front of him and was returned home to his mother.

[@JupiterMuffles]

Nah, he didn't really understand until after Griselda was arrested.

[@thatgardeninggirl2864]

Absolutely love that show I just watched the newest episode about a guy named Robert Brashers

[@frasermackenzie7275]

And her grandchildren were on a spin-off of Mob Wives

[@jdubskiwright2380]

Yea his dad got shot down by a hit squad in Colombia the hit squad was sent by of all people his own wife..because he took off with Michael...she was an evil bitch no doubt..

[@sherirobinson6867]

Don't forget the Cartel Crew

[@XLHeavyD999]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. It's that simple.

[@notsam498]

Violence only breeds more violence..

[@SirTorcharite]

Scary criminals only allow the scariest other criminals to operate. Having a strong kingpin keeps the streets safe unless you're involved in the crime life. No strong criminals means little criminals everywhere doing petty thefts, property crimes, and laced drug dealing.

[@notsam498]

@@SirTorcharite Any examples? ... I hope you're not claiming cartel or large organized crime doesn't lace there drugs...... You think petty theft has anything to do with large organized crime?

[@Rustic44]

I’m pretty sure she knew that. That’s why she outlived the majority of her enemies..

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:15 - Chapter 1 - A bad seed 4:35 - Chapter 2 - Queen of queens 7:45 - Chapter 3 - The black widow 10:30 - Chapter 4 - Cocaine capital 13:50 - Chapter 5 - In the spider's web 16:40 - Chapter 6 - The longest goodbye

[@kraanz]

Can't wait to find those sick tracks, best DJ set ever.

[@timsmith1323]

@@kraanz 🤣🤣👍

[@blueberrypirate3601]

That's where Tony Montana got his plates of crack from

[@_krumble_3053]

If you were to continue to add these time stamps I will continue to like your comment. Thank you fine sire/madam.

[@lauraeden6224]

The “Macbeth” quote was a fitting end to such a tragic tale.

[@niamhryan9677]

Yes. Loved that at the end there. One of my favorite quotes. Loved that play too. Other quotes that I loved were. "There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face" and "There are daggers in men's smiles". 👍♥️🙌👊

[@lauraeden6224]

@@niamhryan9677 I played the roles of Duncan,Lenox,Hecate,Old Man,Scottish and English Doctor, and Old Seward for 20 performances with Hampshire Shakespeare in Massachusetts. Some parts were rotated between me and another actor but often times I had to walk off stage,put on a costume piece and re-enter the “fray” as someone else😂It was insanely fun and for a long time I could annoyingly recite the play in its entirety🤦🏼‍♀️

[@callefalk4457]

WTF???

[@Bigtimecharliepotatoes]

And how many on here will no the Scottish play

[@QUARTERMASTEREMI6]

Lady Macbeth… such a fitting quote for a fitting end.

[@wingedeathnoisewave]

If she could afford $150 in meat on the day that she died at the age of 69, I wouldn’t say she had NOTHING to show, but she definitely had a deserving end.. the cycle of violence is very sad. What a crazy story/bio though.. great job Simon and team!

[@bt3376]

She still had millions left at the time of her death

[@nataliekennedy4646]

her took it then I wonder

[@jayplay8869]

She was flaunting at that point. What’s a 150 in meat in Columbia? Like two cows? Had she really just gone away, she might have gotten to die old. The enemies don’t just go away and you do have to answer for your actions. If those actions are you killed a bunch of ppl, someone very well might come for you 30 years later. Not everyone gets to retire like George Bush.

[@mrmacho41]

I wouldn't called it deserving. I call it ironic. Because it 2021 and people are so soft I must say this: I'm not saying you are wrong just saying how I view her ending, that's all.

[@vancakes4500]

Honestly that was the strangest thing that I got out of this video. What in the world was she doing with all that meat?

[@acepeters2625]

Netflix brought me here . . .

[@maddness4000]

Thank you for doing her story. I have been reading watching stuff about her for years. Finally get to hear your version of her. Thank you. Love your channels

[@marcusaurelius117]

Good call bro always look forward to your video posts its nice that somebody out there is this interested in history keep up the great work man you are very appreciated 🧠💪💯

[@LtColShingSides]

How difficult was it to keep Brain Blaze Simon contained while recording this?

[@andiward7068]

Yeah, I wasn't paying attention, saw Simon and "Cocaine" and assumed it was a BB vid. Took way too many minutes to realize it wasn't a Danny or Callum script.

[@swarrior67]

I would like to see one of Pedro Alonso Lopez, The Monster of the Andes

[@joshmiller7777]

Pedro Alonso, doesn't he play Berlin in La Casa De Papel? Lol

[@SpencerJ289]

Can’t believe that man walked free

[@Oleandra-13]

@@SpencerJ289 and has never been found since. There's no chance that he was reformed and stopped raping and murdering children, either.

[@TheWazupian]

I could have sworn they did a video on there today I found out channel before they starts biographics

[@Makarosc]

@@Oleandra-13 he might be dead

[@sasuke13855]

Yet another amazing video Simon keep up the good work sir.

[@Sam-tw2sr]

Great video as always, love watching your videos. Very informative and great research put in 👏🏼

[@iakazul]

Thank you for sharing!

[@bobbyf1626]

“One thousand, five hundred kilos of Charlie Sheen” also, can we get one about the Count of St. Germain

[@samtepal3892]

You mean that horny magician dude from Castlevania?

[@callefalk4457]

WUOLD YOU LIKESOME?a.??

[@dcarroll3686]

Simon been getting spicy w the new episode s I like the shift !!! 💯🤞🌍

[@PhuckedUpPhilosophy]

what a perfect episode of biographics.

[@PhiloYT1]

"Queenpin." Nice, Simon.

[@asabovesobelow4180]

Love the new graphics and music!

[@brandonwinstead7137]

Simon: "...a high quality tailored blazer." OGBBs: *ecstatic pointing*

[@kathybell616]

1500kg of Charlie Sheen lmao Simon you legend

[@dracaryssnow6973]

Ok, so I did hear “Charlie Sheen”!

[@tanjahorvatserbiaoldslavsh4685]

I watched channel ID's show "Evil lives here" episode about Griselda. Griselda's youngest son talked about Griselda and his childhood. His childhood was weird and very mysterious. She was a very caring mother to him. He was only 8 years old when his mother Griselda was arrested. She was the Number #1 mobster in Columbia history.

[@parisharris3442]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING ON THIS ONE!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@beezy_b]

😍😍😍

[@parisharris3442]

@@beezy_b 🥰😘

[@GeneralGlockasiah]

@@parisharris3442 you gonna snort some powder to this one huh

[@bobbyf1626]

@@GeneralGlockasiah good lord what is wrong with you 🤣

[@mynameismud8596]

The absolute pinnacle of "Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss"

[@NWJonathan]

ABOUT TIME !!! 🥶🤘🏼☃️Now where’s John Turnow’s Bio Simon!!!! All the best. 😎🤙🏻

[@quasarsavage]

These new beats on the end of the video :) I like it fact boi

[@ThatThrashGuy99]

I need a ringtone of Simon saying "punk ass nobody" over and over

[@ryanvason6818]

Simon with the fire on this one

[@georgeluna5845]

Great story well told.

[@MickeySlayah]

I'm here for this!!! Thank you for ALL that you do Simon... You should look into Alpo, Rich Porter, and AZ...

[@Venomous_471]

Only true New Yorkers and Washingtonians can tell that story, Wayne Perry is my cousin and the best documentary on the whole story is in the streets not on KZbin from us not KZbinrs.

[@elijahmosrae1784]

I love this Channel 💯,simon I hope you doing well, God bless you.

[@fidelio9301]

Can you talk about all the heads of the Medellin and Cali cartels? Also can you make a video about Jon Roberts the cocaine smuggler Miami?

[@myspiderungoliant]

The way her life came to an end… Nothing beside remains ‘round the decay of that colossal wreck, Boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away

[@grown.ass.nerd.]

Excellent use of Shelley.

[@randomvidz512]

1,500 of Charlie sheen 😂

[@ProLookout]

I remember the shooting in Dadeland mall, I lived literally across the street from it lol, it was as wild as you can imagine and more during those days in Miami, it was too easy to buy a cheap Cessna and do coke runs back then

[@ernestsalib4396]

Love you stuff mate, would love to see your take on Gamal Abdel Nasser.

[@kingofspades0188]

What kind of equipment do you use for your videos? What kind of video editing software do you use? I'd like to know.

[@graphospasm5394]

Man that intro take was perfect. I can only imagine how many shots it took

[@T.K.KIRKLAND.]

It was aiight

[@altinmares8363]

Simon please post more videos about -Presocratic philosophers -Thales of Miletus -Empedocles -Parmenides -Democritus -Anaximenes -Anaximander -Anaxagoras -Zeno of Citium -Al Kindi -Al Farabi -Al Ghazali I'm waiting for....

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@benwherlock9869]

Taking an Uber to Burger King suddenly takes on a totally different meaning.

[@JBW3rkLife]

Dude said "punk a$$" with and accent. Subscribing immediately!!!

[@sleekilla]

:36 he got quiet about what he said about Pablo like Pablo was close lol

[@herblopez8657]

You reminded me of Mary poppings, cheers mate

[@coucamaya]

Hey Simon. What about covering Grace Hopper. She's a BADASS

[@Rakeshgupta-iy7lm]

Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on. Thank you.

[@392_RHINO]

This was great to watch.

[@scooby45247]

"...signifying nothing." oooh, someone reads Shakespeare.. nice reference.

[@YeeSoest]

Cocaine Cowboys taught me enough about her to instantly click and like this video! Btw we could use Biographics vids on Micky Munday, Jon Roberts, Rivi Ayala...

[@KS-PNW]

Yeah shame that Munday is back in the clink

[@--enyo--]

Simon’s personal hero. But thanks for making Biographics a podcast as well!! I’d only noticed a few weeks ago and have been listening since then.

[@torachan23]

The grandmother who got clapped outside of a meat market

[@bodyloverz30]

Inside the butcher shop.

[@garretth8224]

@@bodyloverz30 Well they pretty much mean the same thing.

[@maggywolska1943]

I kept reading 'Coraline godmother' ...time to update my glasses. Still awesome video :D even if it's light on buttons and ghost children

[@Yamaha38XCRacer]

I read cocaine grandmother, haha.

[@mergru6371]

We are what we read..

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

If you want more, Cocain Cowboys 1 & 2 cover all of this with first-hand accounts of people who are left. Incredible story, so scary and interesting.

[@timsmith1323]

Where can I find them please?

[@MichaelJP]

@@timsmith1323 They're both on KZbin.

[@timsmith1323]

@@MichaelJP ok thanks but when I search for cocaine cowboys I get a load of half arsed documentaries about them but not actually the cocaine cowboys ones

[@MichaelJP]

@@timsmith1323 Susan's bots keep deleting my replies, look for the doco adding reloaded 2014 to the title for the first and 2 Hustlin with the Godmother for the second. Hopefully 3rd time's a charm.

[@vanessamurria9326]

Yes cocaine cowboys 1 and 2 everyone should watch ....way more detailed explicit and shows and tells alot more about griselda blanco. Two of my favorite documentaries. WORTH WATCHING

[@Jhihmoac]

They say that even in her early days in NYC, she was equally as ruthless... Rumor has it that a few long forgotten people that might've done business with her then are still unaccounted for to this day...

[@jessiesratrods1210]

Grandma saw the hit and was like "I accept this"

[@anarchyantz1564]

Can you do a Biographic on Sophie Scholl and The White Rose resistance which were a collective of German University students please.

[@blueberrypirate3601]

Who openly condemned Freisler in court at their trial The Allies will string you up!

[@waynehighfield2094]

@BioGraphics can you please do a vid on Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine. 2 women that ran the Sydney under world in the early 1900.

[@-Varwen-]

“1,500 kg of Charlie Sheen.” Savage 😂

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@Curbsidehustle87]

Who the hell thumbs down this video Simon Whistler is one of the best story tellers iv ever heard tell story’s

[@kraanz]

At the end where she finally got what she deserved, her ugly mug comes up again. And for a split second there, I thought I heard the "Wasted" sound from GTA.

[@tigerimschlamm2724]

My ex wife is from colombia im scared now.

[@phalanx1790]

More likely to murder you for spelling Colombia wrong.

[@Neuroninexis_xyz]

..And all the while I was asking VisualPolitik EN where the heck did Simon disappear?

[@devinsdays1202]

Shoutout everybody here within a minute. Where my minute men at?

[@samanthastuessel7986]

I'm a minute woman if that counts. I turned on the video 58 seconds after it posted and there were 12 views, I was the 19th like and 2 comments. How were there 12 views and 18 likes lol!

[@Cman04092]

I dunno if I'd be running around, bragging about being a "minute man" lol. Although, I believe the current terminology is a "two pump chump". Either way, I would keep that private if I we're you. Iol.

[@samanthastuessel7986]

@@Cman04092 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alzahir]

Am I an one-hour man then? 😏

[@mergru6371]

At work..

[@stevencook9167]

excellently written and performed

[@xaviersantini8176]

Hell yes. I didn’t even watch yet, already a like

[@magnuspyro]

Very interesting!

[@juanpablogomez7600]

I would love to see a biography about Mozart or Beethoven

[@Moneyman-lx3nw]

She wasn’t nothing to play with

[@chasehedges6775]

Exactly.

[@Bellla.aaa0]

She had such a sad and horrible childhood 😞 so tramatic

[@Ricobangz-nq8iw]

That one man was like “tell Griselda, the north remembers”.

[@judeau9151]

I “do not recommend” every time you show up on my feed, yet you still keep appearing. Remarkable

[@Mr.PDF_File]

Lol think he cares or will even see? 😅😅

[@judeau9151]

@@Mr.PDF_File no I’m just a bad person and wanted to announce it

[@kamarichristie4346]

She was one of the most dangerous kingpins

[@_inhflkor6767]

How did you find that document? Where is it kept?

[@mattyt1961]

Really... Uber was handling distribution?

[@zch7491]

Daily reminder to not send you relatives to south Florida for rehab.

[@N4p0100]

Oh, cocaine godmother. I thought the thumbail suggets that she's a polio survivor

[@originaljips]

Tell me this is not the real live Big Mom!! She even gave his son a goofy and fearful name that is Michael Corleone😄

[@TheSlyerx]

“Trap out like Griselda” - NBA Youngboy, ‘Slime Belief’

[@GMxTekhe]

I absolutely want to see a Casual Criminalist on this story… 😂

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Please do one about William of Orange

[@ehrldawg]

Interesting. Im sharing !

[@wende6825]

Could you make a Biographics episode on the Dr. Favaloro please?

[@Honestlylovely]

Straight up

[@marusgoren9977]

int he first 10 seconds you instantly rememinded me of Madam Mendelbaum

[@vikingodin1986]

The first cocaine cowboys documentary goes through all this it's worth a viewing

[@KS-PNW]

She's also the focus of #2 and is mentioned quite a bit in 3

[@matthewdopler8997]

Maybe do one on Disney’s Nine Old Men or other animation pioneers.

[@jaronetaylor3538]

You gotta do one on Veronica Gurin

[@christopherharper9932]

Ha! Queens! I miss it! Lived all over Queens: South Jamaica, South Ozone Park. Rosedale, Cambria Heights! I miss the old Jamaica Ave!

[@silkkdread]

Does anyone know anymore videos better detailing her sons? I looked and can’t find any 🤔

[@countbatculabrucetepes1959]

Interesting how you mentioned that she left nothing behind for history but a lot of dead people. The same could be said about most of histories great leaders and generals though.

[@blksheep176]

🤯

[@452xi]

Seems crazy to retire to a place where she very likely still had enemies. She probably should of tried to retire to Portugal or Spain at least there she may of been able to disappear.

[@mig6220]

The new Netflix miniseries brought me here. Sofia Vergara does an incredible interpretation of Blanco! I hope there's more seasons coming.....

[@Mr.PDF_File]

How? It was a pretty conclusive ending

[@KateSpadeAddict]

Her son, Michael blanco and is wife are on the show Cartel Crew on vh1.

[@Memelord4dayz]

It's not very good. They're cocky still

[@KS-PNW]

Michael Corleone Blanco

[@MrSniperfox29]

@@Memelord4dayz One day they'll face the same fate

[@bluestrife28]

When your godmother has an Uber.

[@johncorish6545]

Could you please do jimmy savel I think he’d make an interesting story

[@breezybreezy5911]

Does anyone know the name of the other channel he does? I can’t for the life of me remember it

[@pappajohn666]

I have a suggestion for a biography - Genie "the feral child".

[@multiyapples]

Rest In Peace to those that passed away.

[@octaviopla5506]

make a video of Samuel Colt