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The Fact and Fiction of Griselda’s Violent Reign
How does the real-life Griselda Blanco measure up to Netflix’s latest installment in the Narcos cinematic universe?
The catalog of infamous drug lords is as male-dominated as the entertainment genre devoted to them, but there was one woman who had to be savvier, more ambitious, and more ruthless than all of them to reach the very top of their ranks: Griselda Blanco. Netflix’s Griselda — not a spinoff but still part of the Narcos family — tells the story of how Blanco came to dominate the cocaine trade in Miami in the late 1970s and ’80s, amassing a personal fortune in the eight-figure range and a reputation for indiscriminate brutality. • Fabio and Jorge Ochoa, leaders of the powerful Medellin cartel, were absolutely real people who’ve been featured as starring characters in biopics of their own, including Narcos.
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