Thursday, March 25, 2010

COCAINE COWBOYS


The cocaine trade of the 70s and 80s had an indelible impact on contemporary Miami. Smugglers and distributors forever changed a once sleepy retirement community into one of the worlds most glamorous hot spots, the epicenter of a $20 billion ... Full Descriptionannual business fed by Colombias Medellin cartel. By the early 80s, Miamis tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country, for which a TIME cover story dubbed the city Paradise Lost. PRICE REDUCED 12/20/07.
Miami, Florida, is the destination for filmmaker Billy Corben in this exploratory documentary on how the community was affected by a deluge of Colombian cocaine in the 1970s and '80s





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