Cartel Crew: At the heart of the reality TV of the son of the greatest drug trafficker in Colombia you will surely like
Cartel children
At 869 of the fourth street, in Miami, a 4 × 4 for children is carelessly parked next to an adult model, in the courtyard of a house with pink walls.Opposite, a brand in Spanish announces the Adventist Church on the seventh day, elegant colonial building with white festons on a yellow background.Palm trees caress its windows.We are in Little Havana, a hideout of Cuban immigrants who stormed by the gangs in the 1980s, where real estate speculation is now ramp."Today, the young people of the tenth avenue and the fourth street can play in front of their garden," said Florida prosecutor Ariana Fajardo Orhsan, during a press conference in early December 2018.
Michael Corleone Blancocredits: MCB/Facebook
In the past five years, the district has been "terrorized" by a clan of drug sellers who distributed cocaine and bullets without discernment.The arrest of 24 of their members gives justice the opportunity to reassure the inhabitants.If Miami is no longer a "war zone" affected by 600 murders, as was the case in 1981, pockets of violence persist.Pablo Escobar and his acolytes "have not been there for a long time, but the cartels if", observes Michael Corleone Blanco."And us too: children of the cartels.Some of them are brought together by this son of one of the most famous Colombian Marraine, Griselda Blanco, in a new reality show.
"Before the arrival of the cartels, Miami did not even exist," proclaims the trailer for the first episode of Cartel Crew, broadcast Monday, January 7, 2019 on the VH1 channel.Against a background of rap, Latin music and police sirens, a blonde woman appears in a black fitted dress."My name is Marie Ramirez de Arellano," she salutes, a Louis Vuitton bag in hand."I know it's long, but it's a Cuban name.She was raised in Little Havana by a drug -firing father of drugs.She is now in a relationship with Michael Corleone Blanco, the presenter of the program produced by Big Fish Entertainment.There are eight people from criminal families.
"This life has always pursued me," notes Marie not without a certain pride."I buried 22 members of my family, especially my mother and my two brothers," regrets Michael Corleone Blanco, 40 years old.In September 2012, when she had just got out of prison, Griselda Blanco was slaughtered in front of a butcher's shop in Medellín, a city where her enemies often finished in pieces.She was nicknamed the Black Widow, Godmother or the Madrina.A time his successor, Michael Corleone - that is really his name, his mother was a big fan of the godfather - now maintains the posterity of his mother through a Kyrielle of legal activities.He launched a line of clothing called Pure Blanco, whose slogan is "Badass like Griselda".
"I want to distribute clothes that smash like my mother distributed drugs that were smashing the whole world," he prides."Isn't that a way of living the American dream?"Nothing seems to be missed for that, since Hollywood is interested in him.By coming across the two parts of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, released in 2006 and 2008, actor Mark Wahlberg imagined a feature film in which Jennifer Lopez would take the role of Griselda.It was finally Catherine Zeta-Jones who embodies her in the Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story TV movie, broadcast from January 20, 2018 in the United States.
To promote it, Michael Corleone explains that "before Pablo, there was Griselda".Author of a book on the history of the Blanco family, for which he is looking for a publisher, the businessman also directs the Rap Xtorxion label.Last November, he praised the release of the piece of Maes and Booba "Madrina", whose words his mother inspires the words."Many rappers have links with the drug world, whether they are inspired by it or they live in it," he believes."The life of Griselda Blanco, a woman who came out of nowhere capable of helping and providing so many people, symbolizes the triumph of the generation of the mid -1980s and the early 1990s.»»
Credits: Miami Police Department
Godmother
Griselda Blanco could have had a lifeless life in Cartagena of the Indies, on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where she was born on February 15, 1943.Only, her mother Ana Lucía Restrepo, pregnant with the man in whom she made households, had to flee for Medellín.At 11, the girl begins to live there for the flights.More serious, with a group of friends, she takes off a 10 -year -old boy to get a ransom.Failing payment, the group decides to put it to death.Griselda is designated, which lodges a ball in the front of his first victim.Four years later, after an argument, she leaves the home and falls into the arms of Carlos Trujillo (also nicknamed Dario Pestanas), married before the majority.From this union was born a first son, Dixon, in 1960.Uber and Osvaldo follow.
In addition to false passports, the couple sells cannabis until the death of Pestanas, hepatitis, in 1970.That year, his widow went to Bolivia to buy $ 500 cocaine.On what, she marries Alberto Bravo, whose entries in Peru enrich this small business.To the point that he thrives in New York, where the two traders regularly surrender.Back from the United States, Griselda suspects her husband of plotting against her with Pablo Escobar.By mocking his nickname of Godmother, in the parking lot of a Bogotá nightclub, Bravo causes a shooting from which he will never get up.
If her activity remains unpunished in Colombia, she raises serious suspicions in the United States.In 1973, the Drug Encompection Administration (DEA) launched Operation Banshee in order to dismantle Colombian networks in New York.An indictment was even written on April 30, 1975 against Griselda Blanco and 37 other people for cocaine trafficking.In less than a year, 12 of them are brought to justice but the black widow remains out of reach, although agent Charles Cecil has managed to know his Colombian address.Except that there is no extradition agreement between the two countries - at least not before 1982.So that the fugitive can quietly remarry with Dario Sepulveda in 1978.Michael Corleone Blanco was born on February 17.His oval face, the chin trap and his mother's coffee eyes.
Michael Corleone and Griseldacredits: MCB/Facebook
According to DEA, Griselda reigns over a company of 600 people who export some 1,500 kilos of powder per month to the United States.She even developed a line of underwear with secret pockets to hide drugs.In Miami and New York, she would have ordered 40 assassinations, a small number compared to the 250 victims that are attached to her on both sides of the Caribbean.His son, even if he is not fully aware of it, is well placed to observe this activity. « À 5 ans, j’ai compris que ma mère était spéciale, que c’était elle la patronne, pas mon père»», explique Michael.In his confessions, Jorge Ayala, former Cleaner in the pay of Griselda Blanco, says he saw him with the Madrina when he came to discuss a $ 50,000 contract to delete a target.But it won't last.
Having heard of a relationship between Dario Sepulveda and a stripper from Fort Lauderdale, Griselda Blanco confronts him with the facts.The father then decides to take Michael with him to Colombia, where he thinks of receiving the protection of Pablo Escobar and the Ochoa brothers.Las, arrested by false police officers, he is riddled with bullets in front of his son. « Le petit Michael hurlait et a couru vers son père mais avant qu’il arrive, Dario était mort»», raconte un ancien intermédiaire, Max Maermelstein.Now the child follows his mother in his constant trips to escape the friends of the late her husband.
Wandering
The black widow ends up falling into the DEA nets.On May 30, 1984, she joined an indication of the agency, under the eyes of Sergeant Robert Palombo, in Newport Beach, in southern Los Angeles.Decision is however taken to postpone his arrest so as not to endanger the life of the bait.The scenario is reproduced in September: patience.With the help of a former family friend under the locks, Gerry Gomez, the Americans now know that she lives in Irvine, not far from Newport Beach.In the garden, his son has fun in the miniature porsche he received for his sixth anniversary.This February 17, 1985, he attended the arrest of his mother.
During his first five years of detention, Michael lives with his maternal grandmother, taking advantage of the houses and the money that the American authorities could not grasp in Colombia.He visits her as soon as possible.From his 12 years, the teenager is tossed between different adoption households."I met someone my mother knew and I said:" I will live in your house, I will pay the rent and you will be my legal tutor."Once, I had a minister as a tutor, who opened me to God.»» Malgré cette rencontre, le jeune homme passe par des phases de dépression d’après Cristian, un ami de la famille."His whole family was in prison, he did not know what to do with his life, and he was certainly not ready to work from 9 am to 5 pm.I advised him to write his memoirs because someone would like to buy history one day.»»
Sometimes Michael Corleone Blanco sleeps in Charles Cosby, a man who has established a curious romantic relationship with Madrina.After sending him an elegant letter in 1991, this ambitious Oakland crack seller visited him.He claims to have taken advantage of his networks to sell cocaine, gleaning several million dollars.The son Blanco, nicknamed Nariz, would also have given him a Mac-10 submachine gun when he was only 15 years old in 1993. « En lui rendant visite, Michael m’a dit que Griselda voulait nous donner de la coke pour que nous la vendions ensemble»», a témoigné Cosby à la justice."I asked Mickaël what he thought about it and he replied that he was ready.»»
Michael Corleone, Griselda and Charles Cosbycrédits: Charles Cosby
The lover also claims that in a desperate act, before his judgment, the black widow tried to set up an operation to have John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr removed removed., son of the late president.For the friend of the family, Cristian, it is only pure fiction.The fact remains that the Colombian is doing well.As she faces the death penalty, she is doing with a sentence of ten years' imprisonment in the favor of a procedural defect: during the trial, two secretaries of the prosecutor had erotic telephone conversations with theWitness Jorge Ayala.At his release in 2004, his three older sons were killed.He only has Michael Corleone left.
Based on the Ayala confessions, director Billy Corben tells the bloody fate of the Blanco family in a documentary released in 2006, Cocaine Cowboys.Coupled with those of two other traffickers, this story has such ramifications that it gives rise, alone, to a second part in 2008, Cowboys II: Hustlin ’with the Godmother.Cosby, who participates in this opus, invites Michael to the preview. « Il était comme un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine»», se souvient Cristian."Needless to say, he hated the film.He did not like that the bloody body of one of his brothers appeared on the screen and another be described torturing someone.It was too much for him.»»
To give its version of the story, the last son Blanco sells the rights to the Californian production company First Born Films in May 2011.The ink is barely dry that it is arrested in a Miami donut shop.According to DEA, he undertook to buy five kilos of cocaine from an infiltrated agent on behalf of the rap label Kill All Rats.The members of the latter deny their involvement. « Pourquoi les flics n’ont pas attendu de savoir où iraient ces kilos ?»» interroge, dubitatif, l’ancien pilote des narcotrafiquants colombiens, Mickey Munday.
Michael Corleone Blanco Face Camera in Cartel Crewcrédits: VH1
Michael is under the locks when, Monday September 3, 2012, at 3 p.m., a young biker entered a butcher's shop in the south of Medellín without removing his helmet and two balls in the head of Grisela.She was 69 years old.His body rests in the same cemetery as Pablo Escobar.Since then, her son says he has left criminal circles.Placed in parole for 7 years, he continues to launch legal projects which polish his legend, starting with the Pure Blanco brand, which he begins to speak in 2015 and the Rap Xtorxion label. Sur Facebook, il pose avec un t-shirt barré de l’inscription « RIP Griselda Blanco»». « Je glorifie ma mère car c’était ma mère, elle m’a nourri»», se justifie-t-il."She was not a saint but it was my mother and she will always be.»»
Cover: Michael Corleone Blanco.(VH1)
