Tag: Cartels

Griselda Blanco – Godmother of Cocaine

Griselda Blanco was the Godmother of the Medellín Cartel. She distributed millions in cocaine and was feared in the underworld as much as any of her male counterparts. She was well respected in her younger years as a coke trader but in her later years Blanco’s past seemed to have come back to haunt her. She was eventually cut down by two masked gunman as she left a Colombian butcher shop. She was 69 years old at the time of her murder.

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Griselda Blanco rose to the top of the world of drugs because she was the baddest of the bad. She was a drug lord for the Medellín Cartel, and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1970s and early 1980s. US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Bob Palombo said of her “I don’t think the fact that she was a female trying to prove something had anything to do with her violent behavior; I just think it was inherent to Griselda Blanco. This goes back to her life, the way she was brought up. She was just a violent person.”  Her upbringing was violent, neglectful and depraved. This became her future kingdom. Her philosophy about death was “if you’re going to be a killer be the best.”  She was. Watch Griselda Blanco

Blanco was born on 15 February 1943on the…

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Did Jamaican Gangster ‘Dudus Coke’ Inherit The Shower Posse Gang From His Father?

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Rare Photo: Christopher Dudus Coke as a young boy

Dr Raphael Thomas, pastor of the Annotto Bay Gospel Chapel in St Mary, says the Bible teaches that the sins of the father are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations.

Coke, also known as the ‘President’ and ‘Strongman’, is the son of the deceased Lester Lloyd Coke, better known as ‘Jim Brown’, the progenitor of the Coke dynasty of dons who have ruled the west Kingston enclave of Tivoli Gardens for 25 years. Continue reading “Did Jamaican Gangster ‘Dudus Coke’ Inherit The Shower Posse Gang From His Father?”

VIDEO: ‘Extraditing Coke’ Documentary

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Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke

To the people of Tivoli Gardens, a community of West Kingston Jamaica, Christopher Coke is the “President” –but he is also considered one of the most dangerous narcotics kingpins in the world by the US justice department.

Below is a documentary that chronicles the US government’s attempts to extradite Coke back to the states to face charges of running an international drug trafficking organization after a bloody manhunt that left over 70 people dead in his Tivoli Gardens community.

Stay Tuned to The Pen Hustle for exclusive updates on the ‘Tivoli Enquiry’ in which officials will determine if the Jamaican Defense Force (JDF) used excessive force on the residents when attempting to capture Jamaica’s most notorious crime lord back in 2010.