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Cocaine Cowboys II Set to Hit Stores
Published Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:46 AM

By Ismael AbduSalaam

In a follow up to the highly successful cult original, Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin’ With the Godmother has been confirmed for DVD release on July 29.

The sequel will be narrated by Charles Cosby, a lover of the notorious Griselda Blanco, also known by the aliases “The Godmother,” “Black Widow,” and “Cocaine Queen of Miami.”

Cosby opened his first crackhouse in the late 80’s, and became well known throughout East Oakland’s burgeoning drug trade.

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via New Times

Griselda Blanco has acquired many monikers in her 65 years. The Colombian drug dealer earned the title of “Cocaine Queen” in 1970s New York, and she became La Madrina — AKA “The Godmother” — when she moved her operations to Miami. Because of her tendency to bump off her own husbands, three in all, she has also been dubbed “Black Widow.” Blanco got busted in California in 1985, and she was subsequently convicted in federal court of conspiring to import cocaine. The conviction made the nightly news, which is how Charles Cosby, a small-time street hustler from Oakland, California, learned about her. He was gob-smacked, he says. “My drug dealing was confined to the hood,” he recounts in a telephone interview from California. “I couldn’t see beyond the ghetto. I never knew anything about the higher echelons.”

Cosby saw Blanco as a role model, someone to be emulated. In 1991, he sent a fan letter to her California prison cell, and she wrote back. The two struck up a fast correspondence friendship. Authorities wouldn’t let Cosby, then 23, meet the 51-year-old Blanco in person because, he says, he was on probation for carrying a machine gun.

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via DVD Talk

The story of Oakland, Calif.-based drug lord Charles Cosby and his tumultuous association with Griselda Blanco (the so-called “Godmother” of the Colombian cocaine trade) is the kind of stuff Hollywood screenwriters salivate over and indeed, Cosby seems highly self-aware, conscious of the seductive nature of his tale. And so Cocaine Cowboys 2 follows Cosby from his Oakland childhood up through the ranks of Griselda Blanco’s organization (including their brief, torrid affair that might just re-define your ideas of conjugal visits) and their lethal falling out, culminating in protracted legal proceedings that most definitely do not end in a conventional manner.

Through it all, the implacable Cosby — seen frequently in snapshots fondling cash, posing in front of cars or sticking his tongue down Blanco’s throat — maintains an effortless cool, embodying the very type of outlaw celebrating in rap songs, a bad-ass dude who ran the streets and got out clean…

The Miami premiere of Cocaine Cowboys 2 is Wednesday July 23, 2008 at 8:30pm. The premiere will be at the Colony Theater on 1040 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. Join us for the afterparty at Bella Rose at 423 16th Street in Miami Beach (between Washington and Drexel). There will be live video-remixing of Cocaine Cowboys 2 by DJ Tom Laroc.

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This is a clip from ‘Cocaine Cowboys 2′ of the the fatal confrontation between Griselda Blanco and her husband Alberto Bravo — the person credited with Blanco’s introduction into cocaine trafficking. Alberto’s death gave rise to Blanco’s international legend — and solidified her status as cocaine’s first billionaire!

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Hello Charles,

I hope this message finds you in the best of health. I was wondering if there was anyway I could get an advance copy of Cocaine Cowboys 2 or will I have to wait until July 29th like everyone else? Im really dying to see part 2, and Im extremely interested in seeing and hearing your side of the story.

Im in awe of you and I must confess; you must have had huge balls to make the first step in contacting Griselda Blanco and ask her what she can do for you. I give you mad props. Im so happy that the Las Vegas premiere for Cocaine Cowboys 2 was a success and that you are getting so much publicity. You deserve it!

BTW you are a very handsome man, and for someone who came from nothing and became a multi-millionaire in a matter of months of meeting Griselda Blanco truly fascinates me.
Like you, I too wanted to be an attorney but my partying got in the way, so I settled for second best and became a paralegal instead, that’s been my profession for almost 23 years now. I actually do more work than the attorneys themselves, but of course they get all the money. LOL

Again, I was just wondering if I could get an advance copy of Cocaine Cowboys 2, as Im dying, and I mean literally dying, to see it. Im obsessed w/the first Cocaine Cowboys, I even downloaded it to my IPOD. Now i’m waiting for Cocaine Cowboys 2…I’m very interested in hearing more on your relationship with Griselda Blanco.

Thanks for reading.

All my love and respect,
Maria a/k/a Gypsy
The Animal Rescuer

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