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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.
During the mid-to-late 1960s, Operation 40 unofficially served as a counterintelligence unit, primarily active in Florida, and still under Jose Sanjenís's leadership. The group largely spied on Cuban exiles and any Americans who associated with them, in the hopes of rooting out potential spies working for the Cuban government.
In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami.
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.
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 ...
Ever since the United States declared a war on drugs during the Nixon presidency, ... Jose Ismael Irizarry, 48, a former star in the agency’s Miami office, ...
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.