Dixon Trujillo is the son of Griselda Blanco. Dixon Trujillo’s mother, Blanco, also known as La Madrina, the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother, and the Queen of Narco-Trafficking, was a Colombian drug lady of the Medellín Cartel and a pioneer in the Miami-based cocaine drug trade and underworld during the 1980s through the early 2000s.
Dixon Trujillo Blanco is the oldest child of Griselda. He was born in 1962. Dixon Trujillo Blanco is not the only child of his parents. He had three other siblings. They are Michael Corleone Blanco, Uber Trujillo, Osvaldo Trujillo.
Blanco’s first husband was Carlos Trujillo. Together they had three sons, Dixon, Uber, and Osvaldo Trujillo. Dixon and his brothers were believed to be poorly educated. Dixon Trujillo and his brothers were introduced to the cocaine business at a very young age by their mother.
Dixon represented the family in San Francisco, moving 660 pounds of cocaine a month. Arrested in 1985, he was convicted in Miami a year later along with his mother and two brothers. He was serving 10 years in federal prison.
Dixon Trujillo and his brother Osvaldo Trujillo
Just a few months after Rayful Edmond III, an American former drug trafficker in Washington, D.C. in the 1980s was sent to prison for the rest of his life for running the District’s largest-ever cocaine operation, he met two men who would propel him into a whole new realm of drug dealing.
Sharing the same cellblock with Edmond at the Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary was Dixon Trujillo-Blanco. His brother, Osvaldo, was just a cellblock away. The way federal authorities tell it, the three quickly became friends. After all, they had a lot in common. Besides similar convictions for drug dealing, all three were mama’s boys, raised by tough women who taught them their trade.
Before they were sent to prison, the three men, Dixon Trujillo-Blanco, Rayful Edmond III, and Osvaldo Trujillo were among the largest cocaine dealers in the nation; all three made millions and spent their money with flair, often frequenting the same pricey stores on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
But they had never met until the winter of 1990 in Lewisburg. By then, Lewisburg was bustling with convicted drug dealers, and according to some federal officials, the dealers were doing a bustling business inside the prison, setting up deals for friends on the inside and the outside.
Even in that milieu, the Trujillo-Blanco brothers Dixon Trujillo-Blanco and Osvaldo Trujillo stood apart. They were from the supply side of the cocaine world. They would become Edmond’s new Colombian cocaine connection, a replacement for his suppliers from the Cali cartel — a second, upstart cocaine-exporting group that he had helped make a major competitor of the Medellin group in this country. Edmond’s Cali suppliers went to prison when he did.
The Trujillo-Blanco brothers Dixon Trujillo-Blanco and Osvaldo Trujillo’s connection went to the heart of the ruthlessly violent Medellin cartel. Their mother dubbed the “Godmother of Cocaine,” was one of the most notorious players in the cartel’s U.S. operations.
Like Edmond’s mother, Constance “Bootsie” Perry, Griselda Blanco rose from humble beginnings. Perry peddled pills on Washington’s streets; Blanco worked as a pickpocket in New York when she first came to this country from Colombia in the 1960s.
Bob Palombo, a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who investigated the Blanco organization, said in an interview last week that Griselda Blanco was responsible for much of the drug-related violence in South Florida during the 1980s.
Dixon Trujillo-Blanco’s mother is credited with perfecting the motorcycle assassination, a popular tactic among South Florida’s “cocaine cowboys.” And she once had a part interest in a Colombian factory that manufactured girdles and bras with compartments to hide cocaine.
When Edmond met Dixon Trujillo-Blanco and his brother, the brothers were two years away from being paroled, but they had plenty of drug connections to offer. And Edmond had plenty of customers eager to do business.
The Trujillo-Blanco brothers were paroled in early 1992 and were back in Colombia. To reach them, Edmond simply made collect calls to Washington area associates who patched him through to the brothers via conference calls and the three get to do their deals.
In mid-1992, Edmond persuaded Dixon Trujillo-Blanco’s brother, Osvaldo Trujillo-Blanco not to kill Jackson and Corbin, who had not paid him for cocaine delivered to them. Instead, the Colombian upped his price by $10,000 a kilogram — to $26,000 — to make up for his losses. Osvaldo Trujillo-Blanco, 25, was killed a few months later in a Colombian nightclub. Dixon Trujillo-Blanco was also later killed in Colombia.
Dixon Trujillo’s mother La Madrina: How she died.
On the night of September 3, 2012, Dixon Trujillo’s mother, Blanco died after being shot twice; once in the head and once in the shoulder by a motorcyclist in Medellín, Colombia. She was shot at Cardiso butcher shop on the corner of 29th Street, after having bought $150 worth of meat; the middle-aged gunman climbed off the back of a motorbike outside the shop, entered, pulled out a gun, and shot Blanco two times before calmly walking back to his bike and disappearing into the city. She was 69.
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