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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. 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."
With COCAINE COWBOYS, filmmaker Billy Corben -- whose first feature, Raw Deal: A Question Of Consent, caused a sensation at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival -- paints a dazzling portrait of a cultural explosion that still echoes as Hollywood myth, evidenced by the latest manifestation, NBC/Universal's Miami Vice, opening July 28th. Composer of the original "Miami Vice" theme, Jan Hammer, provides the score.
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 | Cocaine Cowboys | | I just saw this. It was a good documentaryhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtNQyk7E-0.. | | |
 | Cocaine Cowboys documentary | | Awesome documentary I just watched last night about the cocaine trafficking in South Florida from the 70s and 80s. This is the story of the real Scarfaces. Pretty crazy shit. Check it out, its on.. | | |
| Cocaine Cowboys | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WtNQyk7E-0countr.. | | |
 | Movie: Cocaine Cowboys | | Came out in 2006, and damn is it a interesting flick.The true story of the pioneers of Cocaine smuggling. Told by the smugglers themselves. Definately worth the watch.IMBD..... | | |
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