Even Pablo Escobar was afraid of her: in the six-part film “Griselda,” Sofía Vergara plays the notorious cocaine queen. As a viewer, you follow her spellbound on the path to ruin.
“The only man I was ever afraid of was a woman named Griselda Blanco,” notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar is reported to have said. And yet Griselda Blanco, who created one of the most profitable drug cartels of the 20th century in the 70s and 80s, also suffered the fate of all too many women: she was forgotten and her story was written over by men. Although she was in no way inferior to men, least of all in cruelty.