Cocaine City: Miami’s 1970s Deadly Drug Wars
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Experience the wild, cocaine-fueled chaos of Miami in the 1970s and '80s in this gripping tale of drug lords, police corruption, and the battle to control America's cocaine capital. Watch now!
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Glad you covered Griselda Blanco. She should get her own Casual Criminalist episode.
Yes
Suggestion for a story. The drug money that fuelled the US motor racing scene in the 1970's and 1980's.
Whittington Brothers? You could also do one on the Sydney Mazda Rotary scene in the 00’s. Wild times.
I was wondering why the two drug lords in the picture were wearing racing uniforms.
There was a good doc about the brothers who ran a coke business in Miami and spent a ton of money on racing boats. It was really good.
I NEED you to do a video on the Florida Keys during this period! There's so much good material - i.e. The Fire Chief running a drug ring out of the fire station in Key West! The best part? His name: Bum Farto - Not joking at all :)
We still sell "Where is Bumfarto?" shirts and stickers in Key West. The man literally sold coke out of the Fire House. He disappeared before they could arrest him, I believe he 'retired' somewhere in Central America.
I never heard of this so I tried to look it up.
It’s a really hard thing to research. Too many great fart videos to get distracted by.
And for every kilo that was reported as seized, many times more than that went right up America's nose. And sometimes some of what got seized also.
cool story.
@@JaseBDaleyhaha, comments section has gotten worse and worse
@@JaseBDaley is it not true? I ask this as a genuine question.
@anonme. 💯
The old joke was the cops capture two tons and miss the sixteen tons that arrive at another port.
It was funny because it was true.
I heard about a guy that used to work for the cartels shipping all that coke but he wasn't paid very well. He once loaded 16 tons and what did he get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Drug runners will intentionally tip off authorities to a load and when they are distracted by busting a couple of tons, they are bringing in hundreds of tons just up the road...
@chrisschmidt355 Pablo Escobar don't call me cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the Cartel's goals.
Pablo wasn’t the biggest dealer but the most violent. So he got the most notoriety. The Ochoas and other members of the Medlillin cartel were just as big.
meh Gacha was arguably more violent. And killed first. Gacha definitely had a larger private army.
He was also one of the biggest lmao fym
the cops in the keys were the bigest
ollie north
You can't forget Angel Felix Gallardo and his Guadalajara/Sinaloa cartel.
Shout out to drugs for winning the war on drugs.
They did have more people working for them.
The war on drugs is more about whose drugs the population buys, it was never meant to stop production and use of drugs.
@@JarrodFLif3rthe war on drugs was about getting rid of the competition.
@@deannelson7027
There is profit in war from all sides...the CIA will sell arms to all the sides so they have a vested interest in prolonging and expanding the war ...but not so.much finishing it.
Ah a fellow Vice viewer I guess?
Even Bloom County did some commentary on this. The iconic image I remember has a DEA speedboat zoom by as Bill the Cat is fishing while going the other way in this dingy little tub. Submerged at the end of his fishing line is a huge stash of drugs.
The effects are still being felt today.
It's so odd watching Simon talking about cocaine in a serious tone.
wtf is simon?
You don’t want no part of that shit!
When you wanna get down, down on the ground... cocaine.
@DrGreenthumbPhd. Mmmm.... kinda puts you up....Not down bro.
He's been preparing for this episode for years
Video reccommendation:
Grenfell tower fire
I believe this is the best channel for it.
From the cladding that was approved that exacerbated the fire, that is still present in many other structures.
The missing people, those who died, the lack of accountability or charges for (in my opinion, allegdly) criminal negligence birthed of substandard regulations approved due to the lack of fx given about the mostly low income and minority residents it was being built for.
The dangers of neoliberalist policies.
Etc...
Also, that particular shootout in Miami talked about at the beginning is the reason why we have ammo in 10mm and 40 Smith and Wesson. The FBI asked for a round with more takedown power over 9mm and 10mm ammo was born. However, the FBI had weaker agents that couldn't handle the recoil which is on par with 357magnum so the cut the cartridge short and 40S&W was born.
Surprised they didn't trade in for M1911's. Not like they're in short supply.
Preach brother preach!
That’s why it’s called 40 Short & Weak
I remember back in the 80s there was a daily bus service running back and forth from Miami to NYC. It was referred to as the cocaine corridor. For this to happen every sheriff of every county along the route was bought. Every now and then, they would bust a bus, with plenty of journalists present, just to say that the sheriffs were doing their job
'Say hello to my little friend.'
Such a bad Cuban accent he had. Lol
Are you a flasher?
My father in law who was a homicide detective in south Florida during this time remembers it all too well.Drove him to early retirement
@11:35 As a born & raised South Floridian, I just have to ask: why in the hell would you jump into the ocean knowing you can't swim?!?
Drowning is better than life in prison?
@@rathertiredofthemess2841 if the cops were as corrupted as the video says, they probably could've been bought
“Medellin refers to a time when one group controlled every aspect of the drug trade, providing a measure of order that we could control. And until somebody finds a way to convince 20% of the population to stop snorting and smoking that sh*t, order's the best we can hope for.”
Simon literally has a channel on every possible subject but I trust him more the the news
Florida man big time in this episode. The police sounded like they went to Florida Man University.
The godmothers face looks like its melting in that mugshot. 😂
The Godmother didn’t play.
Growing up in the city we know the deeper folds beneath Griselda and all the polarized figures
"Deeper folds beneath Griselda" is an extremely sexual way to say that and I love you for it
Ooofftt.... Griselda had plenty of folds to get lost in!
Slap her belly & ride on the 3'rd wave bro. 👍
Ooofftty.... Grizzly had plenty of folds to get lost in!
@@peterj5106 that sounds oddly sexual
I was in Miami at the absolute height of Pablo Escobars reign of the city. I was a kid from Stockport, one of the towns on the outskirts of Manchester, England, and Miami was SO incredibly different. I had a relative (now dead thankfully.....Filthy child molesting piece of shit), who was somehow involved in the cocaine industry, more in the 'business department' rather than active smuggling, I think he made money vanish into real estate. Many of his friends were typical 'Pablo Escobar types', loud Hawaiian shirts, solid gold Rolex 'Bluesy' watches, and Ferrari cars......He was a little bit more discrete. The VAST cocaine fueled wealth on display was crazy! One day myself, my 'Uncle' and the rest of my family went out for a boat trip round Biscayne Bay in one of the so called 'Cigarette Boats', a 60 or so foot long speed boat with 2 MASSIVE engines on the back. No smuggling done on that day, but smuggling was the main purpose of the boat. The whole 6 week visit was an incredible eye opening experience for a 6yr old Stockport lad, and probably even more so for my parents who got to see what my relative was really like.
Tbf I can’t believe it’s taken Simon so long to get here 😂 keep smashing it Simon! X
I heard that every time a cocaine lord is arrested simon cries.
Funny, next to Disney and oranges, the drug trade is one of Florida's biggest import
The 2006 documentary on this subject, "Cocaine Cowboys" is both very educational and very entertaining. The story is told by people who lived it, from some of the top smugglers, local reporters from that era, law enforcement officials (not the crooked ones mentioned here), and even one of the "Godmother's" top assassins. Don't waster your time with the sequel though. It's as bad as the first one is good.
I grew up in the 80s. Cocaine was king. I remember the drug wars. Make the shit going on today looks tame
Not sure about that the drugs are crazier this day in age, look at fentanyl in the US
Bring back cocaine. Fentanyl, meth and whatever next level drugs are so much worse.
Simon- you should do an episode (either on Into the Shadows or Casual Criminalist) about the LAPD Rampart Scandal; the infamous, sprawling police corruption scandal that was the inspiration for the movie Training Day
I went from watching your podcast to your video.
Only videos? Haha 😂
Damn, I just binged Narcos.
watch Griselda next. it is SO good
If not for this tale, my beloved GTA Vice City would never have existed.
Just watch the historical documentary series from the 80s "Miami Vice" with Don Johnson as host.
Lmao
One of my all time favorite series
@@arthas640they were always getting giants plates of coke thrown in their faces as they chased the good gu…..I mean drug dealers. Great series.
It's amazing to see where drug money ended up and where it got funneled into. Racing teams, horses and airports come to mind.
Hospitals too
It's so weird when a show like Archer can teach you something, even if ti's just a name 😂
One of the best episodes.!
This would have been a very different video if it had been a Brain Blaze video.
The drug wars have left Miami a permanent scar to this day.
Thanks for the uploading i follow about 4 of your different accounts ❤😂❤
Only 4? Haha
@@Saturn_2138at this rate it will be SimonTube by the 2030s.
Damn now I want to look into this more
Start with the film Cocaine Cowboys part I and II. It’s the film where Simon got most of the footage for the video. 5*
Los muchachos Whistler
People always ask how simon can make sooo many videos... check out the czech drug possession policy...
NAFTA is one of the main reasons why the cocaine war ended in Miami. freedom of movement across the US/Mexican border made that the easiest way to get drugs into the U.S., not the Port of Miami anymore.
Suggestion: The CIAs connection to the drug trade like Air America for example and the allegations that they were involved in the crack cocaine epidemic.
Not to mention the amount of coke that comes to Europe and to uk , the streets are awash with it
Gotta love Simon’s smile when Cocaine is in the thumbnail when he’s not in the other video thumbnails😂
Is there a part two coming? This ended on a cliffhanger.
My dad owned a chain of boatyards in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale in the 70s and 80s and said it was like a warzone down there.
GTA Vice City (2002) was set during this and in Miami, Florida 🌴
Tommy Vercetti just became a new backstabbing drug kingpin at the end of the game 😈
Just think, that’s where Dorothy, Blanche, Rose and Sophia lived.
I’m in love with the coco
Cocaine Cowboy was a good film.
We were coming into Houston from Cabo. A customs office was going by with a cart loaded with kilos in 3 totes. Our mouths were watering. A lady asked what it was and he told her..cocaine. It weighed 187 pounds. We heard them log on 135 pounds. This is a true story.
When was this?
@@anonme_ 81/82
It sounds so much fun until it wasn't
Oooo a documentary about home!
ooh is simon gonna talk about la madrina herself? the miniseries on netflix where sofia vergara plays griselda blanco is really good! she’s so good outside of comedy too!
hey hey
Simon needs to create so many new channels, because he gets his cocaine in the frames of RUclips Creator Awards.
am I the only one who thought of "Miami Vice" when Los Muchachos were mentioned?
#DamnIamOld
So this when the florida men were born...
Explains a lot
Oh no, Florida Man existed long before this. It only got exposure in the last decade with all the news stories and memes.
How many channels does this man have??
"Took a plea deal...only served 20 years...current whereabouts are unknown" That is not comforting!
How does 50 science facts get an hour , but Miami only gets 15 mins ?? ❤❤❤😂😂
Who wrote this ?? They got rogered for time. 😂😂❤❤
Love the entire menu of Simon's for channels
Come on it was right there. "cocaine calamity" 1:02
1976 my dad sent a guy who is now a university professor in economics to Colombia with $80,000 in cash to buy as much white powder as he could, to sell through their connection to the Genovese family in Springfield, Mass. We moved to the US Virgin Islands down by Puerto Rico at the 18th north latitude to facilitate this in 1981. I have a few stories growing up ages 11 from the start of 1981 to 20 at the start of 1990 on St. Thomas...
don't tell stories bruh
some of these people are still out there
Might wanna delete this
U could become a target buddy
I hope your dad is in prison.
Where are you staying now?
Anyone ever notice that Fact Boi hams up his Britishness sometimes? He gets real “queen’s english” with it.
Its always a handful of people who ruin it for the masses
Miami and Texas were booming for work. It is said that without the drug money, Miami wouldn't be what it is today . Rebuilt the whole city
10:23 Falcon deeefffffffinitely snitched
I grew up in the keys. This entire history I watched in the news papers and could not understand what was happening. We all knew people who were making staggering amounts of money. I was too young to understand it all. But it was all going on around me. Was it 1980 when a quarter, or a third of residents of Florida City were arrested by the feds? There were rumors of those residents paving drive ways (which was not needed), and putting PVC pipes full of cash in them to await the statute of limitations. Then Miami cops started to be arrested or killed. Then I heard of a guy from Colombia asking me "Don't you know of the La Violencia" Forgive my spelling, but he told me that Columbia had 70 of amazing violence. And when the Columbians replaced cocaine from the marijuana trade, it all went crazy.
I remember talking to police who found a dead body, there was no identification on the dead man. Where did he come from? Who did he associate with. It was the most strange part of my life as a young person.
But as the decades rolled on, the broader realization of WHAT was going on shocked me. So much death. So many fake banks. Race horses. Helicopters. I can't believe it still.
Still can't understand why people use drugs. Maybe upbringing, environment,... But i never once even slightly entertaining the thought of try one, not even weeds. Matter of fact, i don't even smoke or drink, now that explains
From a heavy drinker and smoker... stay away. You don't need any of it. Live clean and healthy. And long. Even so I can't imagine snorting a sketchy white powder up my nose.
Watch the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. Shit was wild bud.
Medellin in Colombian is pronouced Mede-J-in, not Mede-Y-in. The double L in Colombia (and in Argentina) is a J sound, not the Y sound you find in other Spanish dialects. The Netflix Griselda show screwed this up too, except for the latina cop who was the only one pronouncing it correctly.
If you like this stuff, you should def read A Brief History of 7 Killings by Marlon James. It's a (fictionalized) portrayal of the cocaine cowboys of Kingston, Jamaica and their entry into the US market. Griselda shows up and like a third of the book is about a hitman paying her back after he accidentally saves some of her opps from getting gunned down in a club.
Everybody forgets The Godmother
Cocaine Candy canes and cocaine candy corn!
The thumbnail showing one guy wearing a Coors t- shirt. Nice.
Cannot tell what you are trying to say.
The good old days
And today Miami is even worse
America: wow that crack/cocaine epidemic was real bad
The whole entire opioid/opiate family: lol thats cute
It's different the people doing the drugs are dieing now not the people selling it if ur saying it that way anyway they were shotting up clubs full of inoccent people for a few people back then now people just shoot up and die 🤷♂️
HOW MANY CHANNELS DOES THIS GUY HAVE?
All of them!
@@Max-kw2hp every time his face pops up I block the channel. I have at least one channel a day for a week with him. WTF!
Funny how they showed the MAC-10 in the opening sequence. That's why there were so many stray bullets in that hit; bc that thing couldn't hit the Orange Bowl from 10 yards away. Just spray and pray.
When will it stop getting worse?
I mean we did ban alcohol once, i know what you're trying to say but that is very much a thing we did. And even more, its one of the things enshrined in the Constitution. It's not a law you can easily forget cause every student in the US has to learn all the constitutional amendments at one point, and we all had to remember it's the only amendment in the Constitution that worked so poorly it had to be removed later
Wapidily? Bit of a johnathan Ross impression?
GTA: Vice City is based on this time and place. Helluva game. Don’t mess with Tommy Vercetti, cuz he’ll chainsaw your f*cking arm off!
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If you like this watch the documentaries Cocaine Cowboys and Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami.
cocaine city miami 2.0 is happening right now thanks to desantis lol
Still, we got Miami Vice so it wasn’t all bad.
Follow up about the 80s crack epidemic?
*cue vice city music*
And now we simply have an open border - just rolls right in, what could possibly go wrong?
I see someone watched cocain cowboys
How is that prohibition going for ya? Seems we never learned from trying that with alcohol. People are going to get wasted, the only question is if a country can figure out how to benefit from it or create new burdens.
Prohibition has been fairly successful in places like Japan and Korea.
@@eadweard. Probably not the easiest countries to immigrate to though for similar reasons.
@@BigMobe Cannot tell what you are trying to say.
“…for the love of the blood sports.”
🏁🏁🏴☠️🏴☠️
And utter 🤡🤡🤡 still be like: “bLUe LivEs mAtTeR!”
👮♂️🤣👌
Cannot tell what you are trying to say.
Yarp