Cocaine Cowboys
(2006) 

DIR.:
Billy Corben
TRT:
118 min
MPAA RATING:
R
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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 world's most glamorous hot spots the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel.


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FULL SYNOPSIS

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 world's most glamorous hot spots the epicenter of a $20 billion annual business fed by Colombia's Medellin cartel. By the early 80s Miami's tripled homicide rate had made it the murder capital of the country for which a Time cover story dubbed the city "Paradise Lost."

CAST & CREW

  • Producer(s): Billy Corben, Alfred Spellman
  • Actor(s): Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn, Mickey Munday, Bob Palumbo

GENRES

Documentary  

SUBJECTS

Law Enforcement, Addictions, Cities, Crime, Crime and Punishment, Drug Addiction, Geographical Areas, Health and Medicine, Law Politics and Government, Miami, Society and Culture

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