The Miami drugs war – a battle to control cocaine in the South Florida city – came out in the open with the “Dadeland Mall Massacre”, a daytime shooting in July 1979 that killed two ...

When I saw Griselda—not that I killed husbands or anything like that—I knew who she was. I have many similarities in a way; I’m an immigrant, a mother, a strong person,” says Vergara.

Sofía Vergara’s role as the notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco in Netflix miniseries Griselda was more than just a job to her. Sofía Vergara in Big Trouble in 2002. Photo: Touchstone Pictures ...

Sofía Vergara first heard of Griselda Blanco — the murderous Colombian crime boss she plays in Netflix’s limited series “Griselda,” a role for which she is now Emmy-nominated — while ...

It wasn’t until 2006, though, when the actress watched the documentary Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, that she learned about Blanco and her years of running a cocaine cartel in Miami in ...

Ten years after the murder, in 2006, Vergara saw “Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami,” a documentary about Miami drug lords Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon that featured Blanco.

The creation of Netflix’s limited series "Griselda" captured the true Miami during the late 1970s and early 1980s by following the color palette of film stocks and Polaroid-inspired images from this ...

Griselda Blanco at one point earned $20 million from drug smuggling weekly. She was ruthless and brutal. She was drunk on power and eliminated her opponents without blinking an eye.

After tracing Blanco to Irvine, California, in February 1985, Palombo, who had been assigned to a South Floridian drug task force, entered, walked up some stairs and found Blanco sitting on a bed.