Griselda Blanco

Bad Gays

Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller

History

4.6 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Nicki Minaj once rapped: Drug Lord Griselda, I used to move weight thru Delta. She’s referring to today’s subject, la Madrina, the drug lord of the Colombian Medellín Cartel, Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the Black Widow. Born in 1943 in Cartegena, on the north coast of Columbia, she became the so-called "Queenpin," and adopted all the macho tropes of the gangster. We argue she wasn't the biggest gangster at the head of her cartel, but one of the smallest gangsters in a whole world of cartels that have worked to bring the fruits of South America’s land into the United States market, at the cost of millions of human lives. Pre-order our book in paperback for a free e-book! ----more---- SOURCES: José Guarnizo Álvarez, “Colombia’s ‘Cocaine Queen’ Living in Obscurity When She Was Shot Dead,” EL PAÍS English, September 13, 2012, sec. International, https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2012/09/13/inenglish/1347536945_696771.html Episode 2: Berner Interviews Michael Corleone Blanco (Full Episode), 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODEHYQhKO0 Billy Corben, “Griselda Blanco: Hasta Nunca y Gracias Por La Coca,” Vice, May 9, 2012, https://www.vice.com/es/article/3b5jz8/griselda-blanco-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-cocaine James Kelly, “South Florida: Trouble in Paradise,” Time, November 23, 1981, https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,922693,00.html Justin Vallejo, “Wild Real Life Story behind ‘Cocaine Godmother’ Portrayed by Sofia Vergara,” The Independent, April 5, 2022, sec. News, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/griselda-blanco-sofia-vergara-netflix-b2051670.html. Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Bad Gaze, a podcast about evil and complicated
0:20.4	queer people in history.
0:21.8	My name is Ben Miller. I'm a writer, researcher, and member of the board of the Shulis Museum in Berlin.
0:27.9	And my name is Hulemi. I'm a writer and author.
0:30.8	Last week, we talked about André Gide, the French writer who developed a politics and a approach to poetry and sensuality and spirituality
0:42.8	that came out of some extremely ethically troubling relationships with Algerian and
0:48.8	Tunisian boys. Who are we talking about this week, Hugh?
0:52.4	Well, Ben, I know for a fact that you're a huge da baby fan, right?
0:57.3	So I know that you'll be aware of this track he has called Shug featuring Nicky Minage,
1:02.5	and I'm sure you can recite her bars by heart.
1:06.2	But for our listeners, her verse starts,
1:09.4	Drug Lord Griselda, I used to move away through Delta. And she's
1:13.4	referring to today's subject, La Madrina, the drug lord of the Colombian Medellín cartel, Griselda
1:19.7	Blanco-Lestrepo, the Black Widow. Oh, wonderful. Griselda Blanco was born in 1943 in
1:27.2	Cartagena on the north coast of Colombia.
1:29.9	The nation she was born into was going through a period of relative political peace or
1:33.9	combivencia between the two parties who ruled the country since the foundation of the
1:37.8	Republic, the Liberals and the Conservatives.
1:40.6	At the same time, the nation had also suffered a long, difficult relationship with the US,
1:45.8	and the US, keen to protect its investments, interests in the country, had intervened in
1:50.2	Colombian politics.
1:51.6	Yeah, we never do that ever.
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