I grew up in South Florida during those years.
They were finding bodies every day in car trunks all over the city.
I worked in over a dozen latin night clubs during those years. Everybody leaving the bathroom was wiping their nose.
they used to have rails of coke right in the mens room compliments of the house on a big mirror.
there was so much money around it was unreal. they used the clubs to launder all that money they were making.
Back then there were so any clubs you couldn't count them all.
A few that I remember....
Club International
The Tyrona
Papa Grande's (big daddys)
El Salsero
The bar in the Hotel Mutiny in coconut grove (this is where all the big dealers hung out.Going in there was just like walking into a scene from Scarface.
Neon Leons lounge
Club LaClave
Thats just a hand full....
Those years in Miami must have been similar to what it was like in Brooklyn in the 1970's. Except much more bloody and violent. These Latin drug guys didn't care if they killed everybody in your family just to get to you. The LCN from what I understand doesn't work that way.
Sal
Griselda Blanco ordered to kill a family for a drug debt. The colombians was crazy they kill,kill and kill because was only drug traffickers so why stay in the shadow ? The LCN made money in the dark with various rackets included the white collar crimes. This is the difference but from 1980 to today almost all the cocaine cowboys are dead while the mobsters are alive and enjoy their money.
