Cocaine Cowboys: How ’80s Miami Became America’s Drug Capital | Netflix
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, the city of Miami isn’t just a backdrop. It’s a character unto itself: flashy, gritty, hedonistic, and full of cocaine. At its peak, 70 percent of the country’s supply passed through Miami, turning local boys like Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon into billionaire cocaine kingpins.
In this video, we’ll paint a lurid picture of Miami in the late 70s and 80s - a city so warped by drugs that it began to resemble “narco-states” like Colombia. Welcome to Miami.
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A pair of high school dropout friends allegedly become two of South Florida's top cocaine traffickers in this true crime saga that spans decades.
I wish Netflix would never stop making documenturies, shows or even movies about the old times in Miami or about drugs in general. I am obsessed with these. Thank you
haha me, I thought this was ANOTHER new one not just a stupid ad. By the way did you ever read the books? There are sooo many good ones. Especially American Desperado(About Jon Roberts from Cocaine Cowboys 1 its AMAZING) and Hotel Scarface about the club that all the dealers partied at.
Mane! This documentary was my 2nd best ever. I got pablo 1st lol this better them blanco
@@addidaswguyOMG Thank you so much for the book's suggestions. I have never read them
You do feel sorry of the law enforcement their job and life’s are so shit compared to the drug lords
@@addidaswguy AND THE MAN THAT MADE IT SNOW BY MAX MERMASTEIN!
Now miami is just run by rappers lying about selling coke lol
No its ran by old people who don't do anything but sit around some from retirement some used to sell coke lol
Obviously None of you have every even been to Miami unless your just being sarcastic. Miami is still the same violence drugs and fraud Cubans Colombians haitians and Nicaraguans still all rule the city and always have even the pathetic minimum wage hasn't changed much the difference is the tourism industry does a much better job at covering it all up oh and the buildings have become much taller the traffic much worse and the housing costs especially rent significantly higher but the crime drugs and shootings haven't changed. Don't believe me RUclips Miami news and you'll see shootings and murders and major drug busts every day!!!
I think ur both right.
@@bigballzmcdrawz2921I ageee
It’s ran by gangs and by Freemasons / Freemason gangs ect.
I lived in Miami in the 1980s and attended FIU. I didn’t see any of this cocaine wildness, but was always in the news.
But in the night clubs on Saturday nights, everybody was snoring coke in the restrooms. You could hear the sniff sniff the moment you walked in.
It would’ve been better if you saw Billy Mays in that bathroom and talks to you about OxiClean
I remember that too crazy times 😂
Depending on your age and who you hung out with was definitely a factor on you witnessing the drug craziness. My brother and sister are 6-8 yrs older than me and my parents had their eye on everywhere they went and who they were with. So they knew what was going on.
Miami Vice perfectly capsule this moment in Miami's Florida's history. Miami is one of my favorite cities in America. This was an insightful video.
Miami's fun but expensive.
I live here. It is not that great 😂. Extremely expensive.
It’s so crazy how south beach was really quiet in the 80s while everywhere else in Miami was absolutely insane during the coke era.
I mean it's the duality of places. LA was a facade in the 80s traffic was improving, the skyline was starting to become a little bit cleaner, but there was a sense the future would be better.
But scratched the surface and you saw Rampant crime, poverty, drug abuse, and etc...
I moved down there in 83. Back then South Beach was nothing but blue hairs and pink motels oh and really really good blow! lololol
@@brianfrancis3368 Sounds like a hell of a good time..🤣
It was not all over Miami.
Nothing has changed in 2023.
Pablo Escobar,GTA vice city,and Scarface was running through my mind during whole 12:00 minute
So what are you known for?
Miami: it’s complicated.
Dolphins but mostly Drugs.
As someone who lived in Miami for 30+ years, I love your comment.
Why do drug dealers prefer Miami specifically?
@@rewade70
GTA: Vice City
😍Indeed
this video and documentary were one of the main inspirations for my tabletop role-playing game (Miami 86 RPG)
@@ArchmageArispenthat game sucks
love what Jorge Valdes turned out to be. he's really friggin inspiring to do things the right way legally above board
I lived in West Palm Beach at this time. Sundays we would take boxes of money to a bank which we worked with, they took all the money,no questions asked. At this time every single restaurant had lines of cocaine on top of the toilet tank. Such a waste of money, going to a fancy restaurant, ordering the best of foods and then do so much cocaine that we never ate our foods. Once I was robbed in a sugar cane field in Belle Glade for $22,000 by 5 cubans. My friend who had set up this deal, his lovely daughter was married to the Cuban who set up the plan to rob me. So my friends lovely daughter took me to bed on the 4th of July and my friend gave me a Russian sable coat and his Dodge Ramcharger.
I'd love to hear more stories.. cocaine was big in europe too in the 80s and 90s
Let's hear more stories
Whats the most amount youve handled at one time ? Would you do it all over again ?
I see Belle Glade hadn’t changed much. It was just as tough back then. Same with West Palm Beach I see.
You should write a book.
Gta 6 rockstar should bring the 80s timline in very realistic type drug trade like this🙄🤩🤟
True man maybe side game or the next main game
heard the first part of the game is goin to take place in the mid to late 90's
Sadly so far (from the leaked videos) it looks like it's modern day Vice City. Hopefully it's not going to be set only in the modern day Miami, the 80s are way better background, especially when it comes to crime.
@@nicholas5129I wish they done vc or vcs but with gta 4 or 5 graphics
1:25 it's 2am and I'm asleep and that knocking noise scared me so much!
I’d rather have lived in 1980s Miami than 2023 Miami
You’re delusional
@@joshuawillis602You don't know what you don't know
@@bbrcummins1984 Kids
The same went for the 80's. Looked really good from the outside. The most accurate 1980's youth film was "The Last American Virgin (1982)". Drugs and peer pressure was everywhere.
Pablo's biggest mistake is not cutting a fat check to the taxman. He should have legalised it and paid his taxes. That's all Govt cares about.
What would he report it as? "Fifth Amendment income"?
His mistake was running for office
His mistake was appearing in narcos, once that first season came out everyone was after him
He did try that actually. I believe he offered to pay the national debt. Colombia turned it down.
@@johnwest1559 not really. Sooner or later he would have been wanted. The catalyst for his downfall was the murder of his associates Moncada and Galeano. And no I don't get any info from Narcos. It was and it still is a stupid tacky show.
Building inspectors were probably paid off and that is why that building just fell
Is this why some of those buildings in Miami are in danger of collapsing
Non union construction
GTA Vice City. I also hope GTA 6 adds this time too.
I live near Miami now and every time I drive in or through Miami I always have to listen to 80s music because of that game lol
@@DrewMIATL that’s fire 😂
A Six-part Saga on the South Florida traffickers indicted in one of the largest drug cases in U.S. history. Alleged to be the chief U.S. distributors for two of Colombia's biggest cartels, Cuban exiles Augusto "Willy" Falcon and Salvador "Sal" Magluta were accused of smuggling over 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in the 1980s. The high school friends built a reputed $2 billion empire that made Willy and Sal, aka "Los Muchachos," two of Miami's biggest celebrities. While law enforcement plotted their takedown, the world champion powerboat racers managed to skillfully outrun and outmaneuver prosecution for decades before the chase finally came to an end. Featuring colorful interviews with those closest to them, their defense team, and the Feds tasked with taking them down, the series paints a vivid portrait of the last of Miami's "cocaine cowboys."
I lived in Miami next door from FIU. It was in a bad area where the houses around me had bars on the windows the doors and even the garage with a gate surrounding the property. My apartment also felt like it was haunted. It felt like something really bad happened in there. The apartment looked like it was built in the 80’s or earlier and it felt like someone was brutally murdered in that apartment. The previous tenant who lived there before me was delusional and I heard he would scream out in the balcony at 3 am and the cops had to remove him from the property and eventually the landlord forced him to leave and that was when I got the apartment. Even the FBI came to my door asking for him at 8 am it was so sketchy. I didn’t stay there for long I was only there for 3 months and turned in my keys and left because that apartment felt so haunted. Probably is considering that people come and go after a few months. And after seeing this video it all makes sense now.
I got answers as to what happened in that apartment. A satan ritual went on in there where there were drawings of portals on the kitchen floor and drawings of symbols on the walls and I heard they had to repaint the walls and re do the floors because the apartment mysteriously caught on fire and people like myself don’t stick around in that apartment for very long.
Sweetwater aint bad papo
Miami for the most part wasn’t that bad. However all of the houses around me mostly had bars around there are windows and doors.
@@noahcricketYou must of not been there at that time.
Making New York look like daycare in the 80s
We had Willie Falcon at USP Marion when he first entered the BOP. Sal Magluta was sent to the ADX due to his sentence length. Falcon was released in 2017 since he had pled out and received 20 years. Magluta took it to the mat and was sentenced to north of 200 years. He's currently in the Allenwood Penitentiary in Pennsylvania.
Chi Chi…get the YeYo
Miami 80s cocaine? TOMMY VERCETTI
REMEMBER THE NAME
I hate to admit this but I sure got my share of this via Spanish Harlem in NYC. I truly don't know how I lived, I think if I tried to repeat those days now I'd be dead.
I wished i was in that shit especially in the 80s in Miami
The banks sure took that money in lol.
At one point Miami banks had more cash then the federal reserve
@@pabloes588 The Miami federal reserve at one point had more money than all others fed banks in the USA combined. 🤔 Hmmmm big money......
They were bringing money to the banks in Hefty garbage bags.
back when it was easy through Miami ports.. not so much today but plenty still gets through
I don't have a cocaine addiction I just like the way it smells
I was a Mutiny girl in 1977. I made great money, but the drug scene was not my thing. We had some very colorful customers to say the least.
All my boys drove IROCs, corvettes and Zs, cell phones, beepers, plenty of hot chicks to go around and every day was an adventure, the grove was always exciting and nobody cared about the beach then. Life ever since has been mundane and boring.
The narrator’s voice takes away from this
Agreed
Yep!
Would you have like it if it was homer Simpsons voice instead?
@@genocidejoe : Or Marge’s?
@@djquinn11 😅😆😁🤷🤷
the dope game still alive down here
Wow! now I can't wait for the new GTA!
What a disappointment that was
Rumor has it, they're going back to Vice City!
@@mvd0072 You mean the definitive editions....
@@bishop51807 yes I was still optimistic at that point what a disgrace that was
One of my favorite movies of all time is Scarface…set in Miami!
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND !!!
Tony Montana (Scarface 1983)
Enjoyed the series. Very informative
This is really a well done short video. It pretty much covers everything in a succinct manner yet lets you see enough of a clip of what is being talked about to appreciate the era and situations.
Nice one
🤔
All drugs should be legalized
Congrats. Dumbest statement this week. Way to go.
@@flipperhansen5600 its the most clever statemant this month. places where drugs are legal have less problems with criminality and addiction + state can use the money. statistics dont lie. thats all we need to know.
@@flipperhansen5600 I bet you drink lots of alcohol though.
Dangerously based
This guy at the end legendary
The River Cops would be a great Netflix show
I live right on one of the spots where it happened
@@robertobeltran442 Was it North Bay Village?
You know why drug dealers are always smiling? Freedom.
I watched an indepth documentary about Roseldo(? spelling) Blanca. This woman was terrifying. She had grown men who committed murder themselves shaking in their boots. If I had to use one word to describe her it would be "vicious". She was the epitome of vicious.
Can someone please tell me what the name of the disco song is used in episode 3 towards the end? Cant find it anywhere..
All this still goes on in Miami it's just the tourism industry does a better job at covering it up so they don't lose money from the tourism industry.
When I went to Miami on spring break a year ago, I went back to the old bartending place. I got fired at because I was competing with Cokeheads while I was sober. I went to the gift shop right down the street and his Cuban with his eyes and pupils wide-open talked me into buying weed at this gift shop and even though it’s not legal I ended up paying over $150 for the weed grinder and a pipe and the weed smell like Pine-Sol and split like croutons and it turned out it was laced with cocaine, fentanyl PCP and ketamine I was surprised I didn’t die because I had moments where I couldn’t breathe properly and felt a bunch of weight on my chest, but it damage my brain for almost a year.
There already is a documentary called cocaine cowboys and it’s much better than this
100 is 1/10th of Miami's police? How small is this police force?
Over 100 Like they said they were trying to jump up recruiting!
So you already have a small police presence to begin with, now make at least 10% of them corrupt, and let’s flow 70% of the nations cocaine through the city……yep Miami didn’t stand a chance in the 80s
My uncle rich asf and he always jokes that he made all his money back in the 80s selling the snow and never got caught 😂 let’s me use his Miami beach house anytime
Ralph Linero’s jaw is about to crawl out of his head. He’s obviously still doing coke.
11:35 Basically the whole video.
I remember being 16 and working at the Mayfair in valet. I was killing it $$$ my parents made me quit after one week.
The good old times
I was born to late
@@mvd0072 me too
Went to Miami in 1980 when I was 6 with my parents and it was awesome
like escobar said money or bullet sad but true
THE GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED BUT YOU DONT HEAR OF ANY ARRESTS
They should have legalized it in the mid 70s
No coke is to dangerous it’s not the same as weed coke will make you Superman and super horny weed makes you think and sit on the couch
Dude, if they did, do you have any idea how great our economy would be? With all the money made and shipped from cocaine we probably wouldn’t have to pay taxes anymore lol
Groselda was behind dadeland ,man she really edded everything up
These guys do amazing documentaries
This reminds me of Narcos
Make a documentary series about Griselda blanco already !!!!!
Boooooring. More bigger players then her.
@@signoresantinoburnett1169 cocaine cowboys were bigger & obviously Pablo & chapo are ahead
Cocaine Cowboys 2: The Godmother
Imagine your doctor taking coke as payment
I wonder if Jon Roberts knew Willy Falcon
easy money is hard to leave it too.. Duitt😍😍
80s zaman emas
Lol Jon Robsrts book American desperado is insane and great ..
I knew Jon. He had racehorses. He rarely spoke to anyone. Mephisto Stables.
Incredible and a hard working person can't even make ends meet.😮
Miami was a crack town in the 80s.
After this I really wanted to play gta vice-city again
"It's enough"does not exist in this world.
We still have to take that shit to florida- Antonio Montana
I bet (now) 53 year old Matt Edrige who was featured as "the skateboarder who took a tumble" in a smaller headline with his picture and all in the last newspaper shown in this video doesn't even know he is featured once more~! Would he be excited to know~? I wonder if he will even find out.
I thought that police officer rapper dude ran miami, i think his name is William or something like that but he changed his name to rick ross
Scarface
Otra noche en Miami
Don’t believe when they say Zoe’s run Florida they are at the bottom of the barrel don’t let these rappers fool you the real ones know what’s going on
Corruption is main issue
Pls do a new season of Daybreak 😭
Miami and Fort Lauderdale are still considered to be the cocaine capital. They usually meet at places like the shipyards, old abandoned warehouses and such or in the glades where not much of tbe public goes to
Kinda confuse with you guys, you guys allowed drugs documentary but ban cigar documentary like Hand Rolled 🤔
ok, i don't entirely get this concept. but they are saying i have six fraud rings mistreating me meaning the building treaty is in sufference six different way. a male is in the worm hole saying make it seven polar bearing the worm hole. so he is on the one hour extermination by rifle time concept, but because he polar bears it, the take is from the top of the head. this completes another duchess mission of how and what the hell. why does he have ...
1980’s coke.
Man, I wish😂
I'm American.....it got ugly in the 80's Miami highest homicide rate ever. Jamaicans, Columbians, hatians, cubans, Americans at war.
yes the best of times and the worst of times
Operation court broom 😂😂 who comes up with these names
Miami was build with drug money
Like vice city
Vice city 🤜🤛🤩
Now whole america is like Miami.
No way.
You forgot to mention that here was this powerful mafia boss named Tommy Vercetti.
AMC Pacer 3:52
Anyone else hope they talk about Rivi if you know you know
Watching this makes me hate the government more so because they benefited more from it in the 80s
The guys who worked in Customs made a lot of rich friends.
Tommy Vercetti
Escobar > chapo
Jjjjj Fidel Castro
Dumbasses discussing which terrorist is the "best"
@@willaragon6508 hes not a druglord
@@willaragon6508 he wasn’t a drug lord he was a dictator drug lords were better than him
And because Miami in the 1980s became America’s drug capital, Scarface and Miami Vice inspired from it.
and not only that, miami vice changed television and the world forever.
Was cocaine the reason why 1980s footage looked so crappy?
Where is the original cocaine cowboys documentary?
Yeah Waiting for it
Shouldn't have messed with SA Frank White....
Must feel better,
5:43 name song