Griselda Blanco person
also: Blanco, queen of the crown of snow
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Griselda Blanco attempted_assassination_of
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“Mejia himself was the target of a Blanco-ordered assassination attempt. They were bitter rivals in the Miami cocaine street wars. Blanco hired a hitman, Miguel Perez. He stabbed Mejia some 10 times with a bayonet blade in broad daylight at …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 29:18
Griselda Blanco ordered_assassination_of
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“We, the DEA undercover team, are then successful in indicting Mejia via an elaborate undercover sting, but he is nowhere to be found. Griselda has her own intelligence system and learns that Papo is landing in Miami from Colombia on Septemb…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 35:50
Griselda Blanco assassinated
Papo Mejia book_quoted
“Levin then describes this in an email. The cocaine cowboy wars in Miami was raging when he began Operation Hun that targeted Papo Mejia, among others, using Sonia Atala as bait. What we learned was that Griselda Blanco had already killed Pa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 35:21
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and that many of its chief architects and key players were top narco-traffickers in Bolivia on the CIA's payroll. The cocaine coup made Bolivia a South American narco-state in the early 1980s, a major supplier of cocaine to the U.S. during …
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were fighting for control of the Miami network. Griseldo Blanco, 69, was cut down in front of a butcher shop in Medellin, Colombia in early September, 2012 by a middle-aged man who was delivered to the murder scene on the back of a motorcyc…
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into her brain. Blanco, prior to her death, had been pumped up as a rock star on the drug war by the U.S. mainstream media and Hollywood inspired films like Cocaine Cowboys.…
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In fact, at the time of her death, several feature films about her life as a big cocaine dealer and killer in Miami in the 70s and 80s were reportedly in the works, including one starring Jennifer Lopez, was supposedly seeking to play the l…
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Barack Vega, a longtime CIA asset in the 90s and early 2000s, helped to broker cooperating source deals on behalf of U.S. law enforcement agencies with dozens of major Colombian narco traffickers. When the author interviewed him, Vega descr…
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She, quote, she was made out to be the queen of cocaine, but there were much more powerful people involved. She was responsible for killing a lot of people, but she wasn't the biggest killer, unquote. The biggest hitman at the time in the M…
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Blanco claimed she killed, he actually killed, and allowed her to take credit for it. Blanco had made a long list of deadly enemies by the time she was 69, after serving years in U.S. prison prior to being deported in 2004 to Colombia. Her …
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The mystery opens a door to the past to obscure history of the drug war that you won't read about in the New York Times. One murder scene that Blanco's fingerprints are all over, most observers agree, is the Dade Land Mall shootout in Miami…
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Mejia himself was the target of a Blanco-ordered assassination attempt. They were bitter rivals in the Miami cocaine street wars. Blanco hired a hitman, Miguel Perez. He stabbed Mejia some 10 times with a bayonet blade in broad daylight at …
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had been returned to her. It was also revealed that Sonia was soon to return to Bolivia in the 1980s, still the number one source of the country's cocaine, once again free to reign supreme as queen of the crown of snow. But for Levin, the s…
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by one of Blanco's assassins. He was arrested by DEA due to the case built against him and Operation Hun and ultimately sent to jail because of Levin's casework and testimony. Levin told the author that Mejia is a very vengeful and skilled …
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Levin then describes this in an email. The cocaine cowboy wars in Miami was raging when he began Operation Hun that targeted Papo Mejia, among others, using Sonia Atala as bait. What we learned was that Griselda Blanco had already killed Pa…
▶ 35:50
We, the DEA undercover team, are then successful in indicting Mejia via an elaborate undercover sting, but he is nowhere to be found. Griselda has her own intelligence system and learns that Papo is landing in Miami from Colombia on Septemb…
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This is an actual dialogue. Levin, you want me to help you get him out of jail when I'm on his hit list? The attorney, I talked to him. You're no longer at the top of the list. Papo is eventually released from prison in 2000 with no help fr…