Byliner Publishes COCAINE COWGIRL: The Outrageous Life and Mysterious Death of Griselda Blanco, the Godmother of Medellín
By Jennie Erin SmithSeptember 26, 2013—San Francisco—Today Byliner publishes Cocaine Cowgirl ($1.99), by celebrated journalist Jennie Erin Smith, a never before told story about the murder of the notorious “Godmother” of the U.S.-Colombia drug trade. Her real name was Griselda Blanco, but she was known by many other, more evocative names: Black Widow, La Madrina, Queenpin. For years, she ventured where no woman had gone before, dominating the cocaine trade between South America and the United States, rivaled only by her