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Twenty years after Cocaine Cowboys premiered, the cult classic returns with a complete visual reconstruction. Smugglers, traffickers, assassins and cops. The people who lived Miami’s cocaine wars reveal how billions in drug money and an unprecedented wave of violence transformed a sleepy vacation town into an international capital.
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00:09We go into this house, I meet this Colombian, and he's telling me, you know, I'll give you
00:13whatever you want. And I said, well, you know, show me something. I had never seen so much
00:18cocaine in my entire life. We went down there, and the first trip, we got paid $1.2 million.
00:29It built half the city. It built the high-rises, it built the scrapes, and you just couldn't
00:34get enough cocaine. Flacco came in his motorcycle, he said, you guys fucked up the hip. I was
00:41told my boss, the boss wants to meet you. Grisada Blanco, she was the godmother of the cocaine
00:47trade.
01:05They call them the cocaine cowboys. Cocaine cowboys. Cocaine cowboys. He said, you're
01:15going to kill me? I said, not right now, but I will later.

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