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The Cocaine Queen of Miami

Behind the Bastards

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Griselda Kills Her First Husband, What Would Her Name Be?

In 1978, Grisilda marries a new guy, a bank robber named Dario. The couple has a son who Griselda named Michael Corleone. She runs her Coke business from Columbia for a while and grows into one of the most influential figures in the cocaine world. At one point, she broke it a major meeting of all the big Coke traffickers, including Pablo Escobar to get everybody to unify their import networks so they can more efficiently sell cocaine to Americans. They move back to the United States but aren't recognized at the border crossing because a decade of smoking uncut cocaine had aged her face by several decades.

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