Colombian police search for 'cocaine queen's' killers

EnglishLady · Sep 4, 2012

Police in the Colombian city of Medellin are searching for two men who shot dead the convicted drug trafficker Griselda Blanco on Monday.

Eyewitnesses said two gunmen opened fire on Griselda Blanco, also known as "queen of cocaine" or "godmother", outside a butcher's shop in Medellin.

Blanco died of two gunshot wounds to the head on her way to hospital

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skyraider · Sep 4, 2012

EnglishLady said:
Police in the Colombian city of Medellin are searching for two men who shot dead the convicted drug trafficker Griselda Blanco on Monday.

Eyewitnesses said two gunmen opened fire on Griselda Blanco, also known as "queen of cocaine" or "godmother", outside a butcher's shop in Medellin.

Blanco died of two gunshot wounds to the head on her way to hospital

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BBC News - Colombian police search for 'cocaine queen's' killers

After reading the article, sounds like some get even time just went down.

Turtle · Sep 4, 2012

Somebody really held a grudge against her, huh.

layoutshooter · Sep 4, 2012

No great loss.

billg27 · Sep 4, 2012

Their not looking very hard. They are probably glad someone took care of the problem.

Turtle · Sep 4, 2012

I like the way TIME magazine characterized her death:

"She died in a hail of bullets Sunday in Columbia, dispatched in the same way she had allegedly ordered dozens of others killed during her rise to power as one of the biggest drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere."

I had no idea that two bullets is "a hail".
I think the author watched "The Godfather" and "Scarface" one time too many.

In the next-to-last paragraph of the piece, the author finally reveals what "a hail" actually means:

Two suspects rode into an open-air market in Medellin. One got off of the bike, walked up to Blanco and delivered two fatal shots to her head at point blank range. The other woman (accompanying Blanco, a pregnant ex-daughter-in-law) was unharmed.

Live by the motorcycle assassin, die by the motorcycle assassin.

Here's an interesting piece about Mickey Munday, the last Cocaine Cowboy still standing (not in jail or dead), and his thoughts on the passing of The Godmother.

"The violence never made sense to me," he says. "They would spend more time trying to figure out how to steal $10,000 from each other instead of how to make a million bucks together. And everybody wanted to be el jefe. There was a lot of time spent shooting one another instead of making money."

When he heard the news of Blanco's assassination this weekend, Munday says he was surprised one of her enemies hadn't gotten to her sooner. "People never forget," he adds.