Cocaine Cowboys (2006)

In select theaters October 27th: 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.? In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago – and it put the city on the map. “Cocaine Cowboys” is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the United States, told by the people who made it all happen.