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The Miami drug war was a series of armed conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s, centered in the city of Miami, Florida, between the United States government and multiple drug cartels, primarily the Medellín Cartel. It was predominantly fueled by the illegal trafficking of cocaine.
Interstates 95 and 395 were constructed in Overtown in the 1960s. [1]Overtown is a historically black neighborhood in Miami, [2] [3] [4] located north of downtown. [5] [6] In 1982, the 4-square-mile (10 km 2) neighborhood was home to about 18,000 people, almost all African American, [7] an ethnic group that constituted about 17 percent of the Miami metropolitan area's 1.6 million residents. [5]
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.
Griselda Blanco was known as the “godmother of cocaine” and had Miami connections during the city’s Cocaine Cowboy” days in the 1980s. ... the mastermind behind the gruesome drug related ...
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.
Blanco was later charged with first-degree murder in Castro's 1982 death in 1994 and the deaths of drug dealers and married couple Alfredo and Grizel Lorenzo, per the Tampa Bay Times' 1994 reporting.
By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through the ‘60s, was a place in transition. Let’s see what it looked like from the Miami Herald Archives.
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.