Uber Trujillo is the second son of the notorious narcotic drug lord, Griselda Blanco, and her husband, Carlos Trujillo. Uber was born in a murky world of criminal enterprise, operating in Medellin slum, Colombia, and the US cities of Miami and New York.
The story and biography of one of the four sons of Griselda are inspiring after being raised by a few ethically binding guardians. The fourth son, Michael Corleone Blanco, is still alive after his mother’s assassination in 2012.
Uber, together with his brothers Dixon and Osvaldo, were murdered. Michael, 46, is the only survivor, though he managed to escape at least seven jaws of death due to his association with the mother’s business. He ran the drug empire and quit after his mother’s death. In 2011, Michael was put under arrest on two felony charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy to traffic cocaine, according to the Miami New Times.
Who is Uber Trujillo?
Uber Trujillo is the second child born to the late drug lord, Griselder Blanco. Born and raised in the harsh realities of the drug peddling chain operated by his mother, he became part of the substance network in Medellin, Colombia, which grew into a thriving business across the United States.
Uber was the second born in the family of four sons. He was born in 1971 in Colombia and attended an elementary school, where, together with the two brothers, they dropped out along the way to join the mother in the lucrative drug trafficking business.
At the time of their mother’s demise in 2012, Osvaldo and Michael were the only surviving members of the family. Dixon and Uber Trujillo were assassinated in Colombia in late 1992. In an interview with The Mirror in 2020, Michael said that all three of his brothers were dead, indicating that Dixon might have been killed a few years after his mother’s demise.
Now married and living a criminal-free lifestyle in Miami, Michael narrates the harrowing ordeal he went through after his mother was served with 20 years in jail and his brothers later, barely at the age of twelve.
“I lived the life of a teenage capo. I wasn’t allowed to be a kid, I had to risk my life everyday I left my house for being a Blanco.” he said.
The Blanco’s were the pioneers of drug trafficking in the United States, and as fate would have it, Uber Trujillo and the two brothers met a perilous ending, a trick they themselves invented, while their mother wasn’t allowed to have a natural death even after being paroled and deported back to Colombia following her frailty while in prison.
Who was Griselda Blanco, Uber Trujillo’s mother?
Along with three sons, Blanco entered the United States in her early 20s and managed to successfully establish a flourishing drug business in New York. She would later escape to Colombia to avoid conviction after falling under the radar of the federal authorities.
Griselda, also known as the Black Widow, due to the deaths of all her three husbands, began the drug trafficking business in the early 1960s in the drug-spot slum of Medellin, Colombia, together with her husband, Carlos Trujillo.
She was exposed to the murky business as a toddler. At the time, Medellin was under a critical socio-economic catastrophe, which resulted in the mushrooming of drug lords
Blanco met her first husband at the age of 13 and had three sons together: Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo. They later divorced. She married Alberto Bravo when she returned to Colombia after escaping a conviction in the US.
Blanco killed Alberto after accusing him of stealing millions of dollars from the drug enterprise. She would later marry Darío Sepúlveda, whom they bored Michael with and later killed when he attempted to kidnap the child over custody wrangles.
Griselder developed health complications from cigarette smoking, which prompted the US authorities to grant her parole and later deport her back to Colombia in 2004. She was assassinated on September 3, 2012, while out shopping when she was shot in the head twice by an assassin on a motorcycle. She perished on the spot.
She is accused of playing a central role in the murder of 200 people, with innocent people dying during her gang violence in the 1970s and 1980s in Miami. As Michael would put it, Griselder was once worth £1.5 billion, with reportedly £61 million a month and a ‘gold-plated sub-machine gun’.
