Miami in the 80’s is synonymous with cocaine. You know, Miami
Vice, Scarface and all that shit.
Well this is the real deal folks.
This doc has players from the time tell their stories. And holy shit do they have some good
ones. They lay out exactly how their operation
went, how the police were outmanned and outgunned, how people were killed if
they fucked up and how they all eventually got caught.
The whole thing, every detail is incredibly engrossing. Each individual story would be by far the
most interesting thing that ever happened in an average person’s life and these
guys have a million of them. For example
this dude named Rivi was at a club one night when he was informed that there
was going to be a hit at a particular table.
Rivi then rounded up his crew to get the hell out of there so that none
of them would get hurt by a stray shot or something. However in the process one of Rivi’s guys
unknowingly told the man that was the target that night so he split too. The hit got fucked up accidentally which put Rivi
in deep shit. This leads to him meeting
Griselda Blanco, aka the Godmother (she was a billionaire, or at least a
hundreds of millions-aire, in the coke biz and she was responsible for something
like two hundred murders), who eventually ends up hiring Rivi as her hitman.
Even a little tale like how the Colombians weren’t wrapping
the cocaine right in plastic at first which would cause the package to come
undone when it was dropped from a plane into the ocean is fascinating.
This is a must see if you’re interested in crime, drugs or
even the history of a city. Miami was
the murder capital back then with something like over 600 murders annually in
the early 80’s. And it wasn’t just drug
gangs killing each other, innocent bystanders were getting caught in the
crossfire. There were shootings in
public places during the day. These
motherfuckers didn’t give a shit. Like
the Godmother ordered a hit on a guy in an airport terminal. Rivi wisely turned this job down because he
knew it was impossible to get away with.
But some other crazy sonuvabitch took his place and was arrested almost
immediately after stabbing his target with a bayonet several times.
Apparently at that time you couldn’t go anywhere in Miami without
stumbling across a corpse. It got so bad
that special forces had to be sent in. A
combo of that plus the fact that the cartels were just running out of people to
kill finally brought this chapter to an end.
I highly recommend checking this picture out. Everyone in this is very forward and candid
about what they did and how they did it.
They don’t hold back on anything.
Cocaine Cowboys II picks up where the first one left off. The Godmother is in jail but she gets sought out by an up and comer named Charles Cosby. He becomes her right hand man on the outside. Again, it’s more interesting stories from those that lived them.
One thing about this series that’s refreshing but also a
little off putting is the brutal honesty about shit that you feel like you
shouldn’t be hearing. For example in
part II they tell you step by step how to make crack. Not even in Breaking Bad where the entire show revolves around the production of
meth do they actually show how to create the stuff.
Overall part II isn’t as captivating as part I but it’s
still very cool. And with these two parts
this all really does feel like a movie and its sequel. The original was great and is self-contained.
But the studio wants to make another one
so they bring back one of the characters while introducing new ones. It’s a new adventure.
If you liked the first one you’re definitely going to want
to see the second one too.
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