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Most of the violent crime in Miami during the period was directly related to conflicts in the city's growing drug trade. [1] In 1979, there were 349 murders in Miami. [11] The next year, the city had 573 murders and the year after that, it had 621 murders. [1] By 1981, the city morgue had an overload of dead bodies and was forced to rent out a ...
The operation was established in response to the explosive growth of money laundering in South Florida following the increase in drug trafficking in the region. [1] [2] A 1979 cash-flow study by the Federal Reserve Bank found that Florida had a $5.5 billion cash surplus at a time when the rest of the country had a cash deficit.
Griselda Blanco Restrepo [2] (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel.
By the end of the 1960s, a rapidly expanding Dadeland was enclosed and converted to a mall. By the 1970s, Kendall had become Miami-Dade’s fastest growing community, with this trend accelerating ...
The film chronicles his role in the Miami drug war (the resulting crime epidemic that swept the American city of Miami, Florida, in the 1970s and 1980s). The producers of Cocaine Cowboys use interviews with law enforcement, journalists, lawyers, former drug smugglers, and gang members to provide a first-hand perspective of the Miami drug war.
By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. ... The Prairie Avenue campus opened in the early 1960s.
Here is a look through the photo and story archives of the Miami Herald at what started as Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami. A 1977 picture of the Miami skyline shot from Bicentennial Park.
War on drugs, a campaign, led by the U.S. federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention. Miami drug war , a series of armed conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s. See also