Showtime has been running the updated version of Cocaine Cowboys this month. These were ruthless gagnsters in s florida in the '80s, and they were making 100s of millions of dollars in drugs n gun trade. Did the italian mafia down in s florida just look the other way because the "cowboys" were so ruthless or were they involved in anyway? or were they involved w the drug trade once it left miami. This era of miami and the drug trade is much like prohibition in chicago and nyc that is portrayed in Boardwalk Empire and seems on equal level of violence in both eras.