I center commercial Dadeland July 11 1979 - 14.28 hours
Ilaman the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
Yesterday they attacked the commercial center Dadeland
and they executed two Latins in the liquor store.
There was a shooting among the two groups.
The broken glasses and the bottles flew.
The shooting continued out.
Two men, murdered in Iluvia of bullets.
Victims of the antidrug fight in Miami.
The one that escaped had a machine gun.
They have to stop this.
? What will they make in this respect?
? What can they make in this respect?
People from Florida wonder
where they will attack now the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
THE HORSEMEN OF THE COCAINE
Me Ilamo Jon Roberts.
I was born in New York and I knew
to some Italian from New York
that they were part of a family of the mafia.
We open 4 or 5 night clubs of great fame
and he/she went us very well.
February 17 1970
One day the police came.
Not we knew why they came.
They told us that they found our partner
in the freeway of Long Island.
They had murdered it and he/she had
eleven bullet holes.
Who Io that happened knows.
The best thing that was happened in that moment
it was to take away from that tangle.
So I moved here
and I began in the business of the cocaine.
JON ROBERTS Trafficker of cocaine
It distributed cocaine for value of more than 2000 million dollars
for the poster of Medellín.
The city in Miami was very calm
and it was a very pleasant place where to live.
Before 1956,
the shift at night of the police
he/she had a patrol one
to patrol an area of the size of Rhode Island.
In that Miami was then, the south,
it was as Alabama.
Not there was money here. Not there were buildings
and the center was lonely.
In Miami Beach had bigger people
the time passing in rockers
waiting to the death.
The life was very different here, then.
It is for this reason that Miami is exactly for you.
In the anuses 60 and 70 Miami flourished
as place vacacional.
To Sunshine. To Sunshine.
To Sunshine. Channel 4 News.
Sun and amusement in the beach, the palms.
Miami is a center of transport important
and he/she has easy access with all the modalities of transport.
At the end of the anuses 70, South American immigrants' thousands
legal and illegal Ilegaron to Miami.
The Latin American influence
he/she gives an unique flavor to Miami.
Miami had settled down
as a place
where the Spanish-speakers they could prosper.
Miami was always
a place half pirate,
ferociously independent,
where one never pled for the law and the order.
As a virgin city.
I am a boy from Florida of the South.
Old one of the few ones born here.
I was devoted to the import.
MICKEY MUNDAY Trafficker of drugs
It transported more than 38 tons of cocaine of Colombia to EE UU
It digs deep
and you will see the traffickers of weapons,
to the smugglers of rum,
you will find the marijuana,
the Cuban immigrants,
and lastly, the cocaine.
There is always something entering to the city.
Florida of the South is the destination of EE nearer UU
for the South American traffickers.
- It was very open, then. - It was very open.
Kilometer after kilometer of costs without patrolling,
where they can leave the drug without being seen.
When Ilegué, in the anuses 70,
all entered drug in Florida.
The Antidrug Agency believes
that 95% of the marijuana that it enters in EE UU,
he/she enters for Florida of the South.
My friend died in his deposit.
He/she had 900 kg of marijuana.
That made it was to go and to take off it.
Not he/she knew anybody in the business,
so I gave the half to somebody
and the other one to somebody more,
and Io divided with them.
If you won 10.000 dollars to the anus,
he/she went you very well.
If you won 20.000 dollars,
he/she went you better than well.
I won as 165.000 dollars.
It is as the salary of 8 anuses.
And I told myself: "This is very pretty,
he/she has to have something more. It was very easy."
You arrived with your boat Ileno,
you robbed in the jetty
and Io discharged. Nobody said anything.
Let us say that they didn't watch over the frontier.
To the present rhythm, according to
some economists,
the biggest industry it could be soon the traffic of drugs.
You went out with your boat
and you found bales of marijuana floating.
Let us say, the square traditional fish.
The Colombians realized
that they had a mine of gold, and when they sent
all this marijuana, they also sent
some kilos of coca.
At the beginning it was a little...
Because it was very expensive.
They entered her in a valise...
And it was not noticed this way so much.
It was quoted extremely expensive.
By the middle of the 70, the experience of the Antidrug Agency it was low.
The office didn't treat matters of cocaine.
Not we have a problem in the national environment
given the great number of people that consumes cocaine.
Yes it is a serious problem for a certain minority.
I met a Cuban in Hialeah
that you Ilamaba Albert Sanpedro.
Most of the Cubans Io got everything
of the Colombians because, obviously,
them Io controlled everything.
In the traffic of drugs,
the organizations cubanoestadounidenses
they are allied with the Colombians.
The Colombians care the drug and the Cubans distribute it.
Albert gave me 100 grams
and I had about four days.
Then I went and him Ilevaba the money.
Then he/she gave me other 100 grams
and I believe that he/she used to pay him/her near...
about 800 each 30 grams, there for the 70.
Not it was of great quality,
but many didn't know the difference.
They saw those big stones and they thought:
"This yes that is good" and my clients
they were not people as people he/she imagined,
they were not people of the street.
If somebody had cocaine,
he/she had to be an airline pilot.
Real estate agents.
Grant a doctorate, lawyers.
He/she had doctors and lawyers.
Somebody that could pay it.
They were the weekend warriors.
During the week they didn't make anything,
but from Friday at night
until Sunday, they consumed.
And each one showed up to a friend.
And I passed this way of 120 grams
at 240, until the 500 grams,
and in one month he/she was selling
maybe 2, 3 kilos per week to the doctors and their friends.
When Ilegué from New York,
he/she had 650 dollars in the pocket
and then it won 20.000, 30.000 dollars per week
in this business.
A friend from New York
it had developed a great business in California,
in San Francisco's bay.
He/she sold Oakland Raiders,
he/she sold Grateful Dead.
He/she knew a stewardess that worked
for National Airlines.
So we sent the coca with the stewardess.
She went of here to San Francisco
and we sent to any place
from 5 to 10 kilos per week. I won
a lot of money, was close
of the 200.000 to 300.000 dollars and I began to know types--
Mercury Morris, player of Dolphins,
who went to the jail, so it is not secret.
Merc is a fallen angel
of the sport machine of Miami.
Former Dolphins, Don Reese
and Randy Crowder they were also arrested
in a transaction of cocaine.
I remember the week of Super Bowl,
when Dallas faced here Pittsburgh.
Two nights before he/she had to the regular leading
of Pittsburgh Steelers sat down in my house.
"We go, we go, damages the coca, damages the coca."
Not we have opportunity of enjoying the festejos
and of the parties because we have touches of it is.
They left to have a good time and Io made to big Io.
* We go, Steelers, we go *
Not they have idea of with what these types were drugged.
"? Van to play this Sunday?"
"Yes, and we will win."
They played and they won,
it didn't affect them.
The offensive line he/she made an excellent work.
The popularity began to grow,
and all those that before they consumed marijuana,
now they consumed cocaine.
We continue with the marijuana
until Ilegó the moment in that there was too much
and one could not sell.
But one was not able to to get enough cocaine.
I looked like each other that the best way
it was to be devoted to transport it.
You don't buy it, you don't sell it,
you don't consume it, alone you care her.
The Colombians offered us a sum
with the one that we were more than of agreement.
3000 dollars for piece,
or a kilo in your terms.
They wanted to move about 400 at least,
so we were and in the first trip,
they paid us 1,2 million dollars.
It was enough to get excited.
He/she hears, let us maybe stay in the business a time.
People with which tried
he/she had limited supplies
and while, people to which sold him/her
it expanded their business. I could no longer get enough.
A type requested me 15 kilos
or 20, or 25 kilos,
and alone he/she could give him/her 15 or 10, and it was money
that it left my pocket.
He/she could sell 100 kilos per week with easiness.
I was lucky. I believe that in 1979
I met a girl.
I Flew to Miami
and I worked in a session of pictures with a girl.
He/she told me that he/she wanted that he/she knew somebody.
My friend hooked me with her, he was a lawyer.
ÉI went out with a beautiful girl,
that it was model of Ford.
To the 3 months of knowing Jon it was my birthday
and I entered to the garage and there was a new Porsche.
It Was a Porsche Targa Career.
He/she had a great monkey above, a red monkey, on behalf of him.
Him ours was as a vortex.
We were very in love. We were...
They counted me
that he/she had discos in Manhattan.
We begin to leave
and she saw that I won't work.
If he/she wanted to go to New York, there he/she went,
and she had curiosity. I am a person
very direct, so you Io counted.
"I am devoted to this."
"If you don't want to see me more, it is well."
He/she told me that he/she had a friend
that he/she was a pilot and that he/she worked for the Colombians.
The type shows up, you Ilama Mickey Munday
and it is an uncultured type of Florida
that all its life lived here.
The type didn't please well.
The first time that Io saw, it managed
a black Mercedes of two doors.
It was very obvious that trafficked with drugs.
Mickey Munday transported with a lot of success
during anuses for this people.
It was extravagant, he/she resembled somebody
with who I didn't want to involve me.
I say... ?Do they remind the series MacGyver?
ÉI is that type.
He/she made incredible things.
It was an astute type, but I didn't like their cars.
For me, it was seen as all the other ones
of that business.
My business overcame that of the Cubans
and it was a necessity to find a Colombian
that it could provide the big quantities
that he/she needed.
He/she told me: I can connect you.
"You Ilevaré with the Colombians
"and they will give you Io that you want."
He/she had heard many histories of those,
so I told him/her that me Ilevara when he/she wanted.
We went until Sunny Isles, Florida.
We enter in a house
where there were 5 or 6 Colombians,
and they were armed,
armed until the teeth.
They had guns, machine guns,
all stopped ones were
and there I realized that the type was serious.
They went seriously, because people
it is not stopped this way.
I knew to this type
that it doesn't measure more than 1,60 or 1,62 m.
He/she shows up and he/she says: "Me Ilamo Rafa.
"I can give you
"Io that you want, old. If you have money,
"I will advance you twice as much
"of Io that you have brought."
Then I request him/her that it shows me a little.
Me Ileva to another room, presses on a button
and a wall opens up.
Never in my life he/she had seen so much cocaine,
hidden behind a wall.
I said: " I believe that you can help me.
"Give me one day to join the money
"and I will return."
The following day, there was an American.
ÉI me Io presents
and he/she tells me that he/she is their godfather.
"Not I am a lot in the city,
"but when you need something, he is the suitable one,
"he/she will take care of you and...
"don't worry, he is 100% of trusting."
The man that presented me
he/she was Max Mermelstein.
Jon introduced me to Max.
I believed that Max, in that then, he/she was a good person,
a person of trusting.
Max seemed a good type.
At least Io seemed.
At the beginning, Max gave me
75, 100 kilos per week.
With the time he/she saw that I went seriously
and that this was given every week.
When you pay a million dollars per week,
suddenly he/she is formed...
a knot among people.
Max wanted me to take charge of the business,
to go to Colombia, to fix the trips.
"If Io divides with me, you will make much more money
"and you can continue providing who you want."
And Max sent me to Colombia.
This is the municipality Envigado of Medellín.
It is where the bosses of the cocaine meet.
I met with Rafa
and I showed up to people with the one that worked.
Let us say that we knew
to the elite of the business of the drug of Colombia.
They Were Ochoa and...
- Pablo Escobar. - People of the one that...
...it was read in the books. - Carlos Lehder.
And me, a boy from New York,
that he/she never thought that this could pass him/her.
They pretended to have
an enormous office with computers
and with 40 secretaries, but they were a group
of vague, a group of street hoodlums
that they were lucky.
Let us put it in a way
in that the Americans they can understand it.
Here they are accustomed to the Italian and the mafia.
The Colombians have his Io.
It is a mafia, but it is the Colombian mafia.
Alone I knew to a family in that time.
The family era of Medellín.
The family Ochoa
it was a family of very respected farmers,
with a lot of influence
in their native city of Medellín, Colombia.
And of course,
they have the captain, and to the head, the boss.
A lot of people want to believe
that Pablo Escobar was the king of the cocaine.
Because that Io believes,
but the true king was Ochoa.
And it was not Fabito, the poor person, but the old one.
The old one was the silent man that he/she never went to the jail
and who controlled Escobar.
Fabio Ochoa, patriarch of the family Ochoa
of the poster of Medellín.
It is said that they created
an insurance of transport for the traffic of cocaine in Colombia.
Rafa was as a lieutenant,
and it almost controlled each kilo of coca
that he/she entered in this country.
Through people from Medellín,
Rafa knew Io that entered and he/she knew
who you Io Ilevaba and how much it won for each one.
And he/she made them win... I cannot believe it.
Millions are not enough,
he/she made them win more than millions to this people.
Not there was nobody above of him
in the poster of Medellín in this country.
He/she had many soldiers,
as the soldiers of the mafia that they worked for him.
Some sold drug,
others imposed the force.
He/she had accountants, lawyers.
In their opinion?these types
the Horsemen of the Cocaine are not?
Of course that not.
ÉI had of everything in this country,
and it was a well formed group.
Not they are different people
those that send the merchandise, it is an organization,
the poster of Medellín.
The federal ones accuse to the poster of controlling the 80%
of the cocaine that enters EE UU.
The authorities say: "These three men
"they manage a more violent organization
"and similar of powerful that the mafia in EE UU."
For my experience with the mafia of New York
and with the Colombians,
the Colombians they made much more money
in much less time
of the one that the mafia never sounded to make.
They had farms,
Ilamaban properties, Ilenas
of cocaine, because they constantly took place.
They had to types that they chewed leaves the whole night.
They worked in the factories chewing the leaves.
These types worked without stopping.
And there there is not industry.
They were earned a living harvesting this.
These farmers and poor workers
they received a lot of money to make this.
It was an entire process, as if it was a factory.
We worked with radios of short wave,
we didn't use the telephones
as you leave in the movies.
"Does he/she hear?how do the things go in Colombia?
"I need 600 kilos." No, it was not this way.
We had antennas that came out of the floor
and Ilegaban to the 25 meters high.
In a certain schedule they fastened the short wave,
we fastened the radios and we communicated this way.
At this hour in Miami
in a band of short wave
that most cannot syntonize,
Ilegan the coded instructions from a transmitter
in Medellín, Colombia,
of the members of the organization
more big of the world of the traffic of drugs.
The livestock is clever,
the livestock is clever.
At 8 o'clock on the dot.
At 8 o'clock for first o'clock.
We fixed this way the trips,
and the Colombians hired us.
I made the arrangements
and they said: We "have 1000 kilos,
"it passes to look for them."
On the mountains, slipping for the valley,
this way nobody would see us.
We never had landing problems
or of take off.
Everything was paid there, the government worked with them
and there we sent the airplane.
The Colombians didn't have...
Io that made didn't know.
99% of the runways
they were of powder, of grass, people that worked there.
It is hence that we had own team.
When Ilegabas there
you saw the destroyed airplanes, that would not happen to us.
The airplane landed, and it spent the night.
You landed and they asked you:
"? Do you want to stay or do you want a woman?
"If you want my sister, you will have it.
"? Do you want something of taking?".
"Yes, I want to take and to return to the airplane
"and to fly 12 hours drunkard. Clear.
"The woman doesn't sound bad."
The following thing was the load.
There are two ways to return from there.
Flying, one can return
for the east of Cuba that is shorter,
or one can return for the side west.
If he/she had much combustible the side west was the best
because all Io that happened,
he/she came from Bahamas.
If they were patrolling,
there it would be where they would be.
One would go where the action is.
So we came western, nobody would think there of you.
Apparently, the strict surveillance
and bigger security in the coast this of Florida,
he/she makes that the smugglers go to the coast west
to make their connections.
We appeared in the coast on Marco Island,
we flew to Georgia,
we gave the turn and we returned.
It seemed that we went toward the south.
Nobody that came from north to south
he/she made anything illegal.
Ilevar 62.000 cadavers was been able to
in an airplane in EE UU
because I don't know how many airplanes
there is at the same time in the air,
but there is not control.
You can land in a small airport
because there are not policemen in each airport
that they ask what Ilevas in the airplane.
We made as that we went
to one of the local airports,
but we made an approach and we went to the west.
We buy properties in Lakeland.
We build two tracks
and a couple of barns that in fact they were hangars.
They seemed barns.
And when you opened the door of the hayloft
you saw that it was adapted to the line of an airplane.
It managed a car of about 8 anuses of antiquity...
and we loaded him/her 300 packages.
We put suspension to the car
so that he/she didn't collapse
and we used a crane to tow it.
We had created a company of tows
and we buy a gas station and a garage in Miami.
The type of the crane he/she had a work order.
The driver, obviously, Io that happened knew,
but we told him/her: "If they stop you
"and they open the cajuela, you don't know anything."
If you manage the car it is difficult not to know
Io that there is in the cajuela, but that of the crane would not know.
Not you know, they hired you to tow it.
It hooked it and he/she left.
He/she leaves that you Ileven the car,
but they cannot stop because you have the order.
We went in caravan, with two or three cars.
One went to the front
observing, and one went behind.
They entered to Miami, and we made that
during 7 anuses without having any problem.
It was one of the advantages of Lakeland.
They always stopped people
that he/she went toward the north,
but it was never known that they stopped them if they went toward the south.
Mickey and the other ones they made air launchings.
I built myself a small navy.
We decide to make it of Colombia to Bahamas
and there to throw it to the boats.
They threw buoys
to know with accuracy where the load was,
because there was a frequency
that it sent the sign with the location.
The console of the mean opened up,
they made holes in the mean of the boat
and you Ilenaban.
And it was brought inside the boats.
The great problem it was the packing of the product,
that it was a fiasco because the Colombians,
so wonderful in the organization,
Io ruined in two trips.
There was filtration of salted water
and that killed to the coca.
The salted water is the enemy of the coca.
Mickey was determined in that could stop the filtration
and he/she told them how to wrap them.
I sent them recordings, I sent them pictures,
step for step, of how to make it.
One won't tell to a Colombian
how anything to make.
Mickey could pass it speaking
that the Colombians they won't make Io that tell them.
My boys will look for the packages
and when they returned
they were not wrapped up. They were as always.
And Io tossed to the garbage,
more than the half it didn't serve
and they lost millions of dollars
because they didn't know how to wrap it.
For their stupidity, the water harmed.
And they were bothered with me.
But they could not accuse me, it was their problem.
"He/she hears, it is your problem."
Not he/she went until the third trip that he/she gave result.
And it worked, and it worked.
He/she sometimes entered for the front door.
The front door it was the entrance in Haulover.
Ilamábamos this way.
Not you said that Ilegabas for Haulover.
So you said the front door.
It is a code class.
In Haulover Inlet rented a department
in the floor 12 of the northeast corner
Ilamada Harbour House,
that he/she has a spectacular view of the bay.
I put to a youth, I paid him/her so that he/she lived there,
I paid for the department.
When we took a trip
she had a couple of binocular
and clear, a radio.
We find all the possible frequencies
against the competition.
The Customs of EE UU, the marine local patrol car.
We would know if they were listening.
Once I came home in boat.
It was sometimes with the boys in the front door
or in the department.
This time, it was in the boat
speaking with my friends in the department.
Who Io will say, people of Customs appeared
and of the Coastal Watch armed with rifles M16.
Not I believe that they looked for us, but they were revising boats.
!And I am in a loaded boat!
But when stopping to my side
the motor of the boat ago:
!bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!
I tell him/her: "God, sounds awful."
And he/she tells me: It has been this way" "for one day.
!Oh, God!
He/she gives the turn, he/she doesn't go away neither 30 meters
and there is kind of a... !bum!
I believed that it had shot the rifle
and... it grabbed the wave exactly.
The piston is shot of the motor
and it jumps in the wave. As if they threw a stone.
A great Ilama comes out of side
that it illuminates everything. "!That I leave a ray!"
They call for the radio but nobody responds.
They had modern teams
and I worried about them.
"? Do they want that the tow?"
I threw them a rope, they were gone up to the boat
and I towed the Coastal Watch
and to the Customs of EE UU, but the boat
he/she had loaded about 350, 400 kilos.
The youth of the department
he/she said that alone me...
any other one had entered in panic and jumped by the overboard.
Of there we went until
the entrance of the port of Maule Lake,
where he/she had rented several quays.
The following day Ilegaba my crane
with a work order and a tráiler.
My business was to four blocks.
We put the boat there, we went from behind,
we opened the compartment and we loaded the cars.
They gave the whole merchandise to me.
He/she had several hiding places in Miami.
It used common people,
hard-working people that needed the money.
It was about finding to somebody in a decent neighborhood
that it didn't consume drugs,
because I made a couple of errors.
He/she found holes in the kilos
as if they put a jackstraw
and it seemed that a rat was the culprit.
Not it was in one, but in five different
and it maybe lacked one or two grams of each one.
It parked in the garage
to take out the product.
Each house had a garage,
because they were many kilos entering and leaving
and it could not discharge them in the street.
It counted it, I made sure that everything was.
And Io made by day. He/she never worked at night.
Each product had a mark.
300 had bicycles
and 200 had glasses.
Each one went to a certain group.
He/she had three, four... four different groups.
They went with the cars
to restoring Denny's, for example
or to Uncle Tom's Ribs
and the one that managed entered to the place
and he/she gave him/her Ilaves to the Colombian there inside.
They were always Colombian.
They had brought to their own one people to sell it here.
It never happened
Io that showed the stupidity of Mlaml Vlce
where they stopped the cars with weapons and everything.
"Allow me to see Io that there is in the cajuela,
"Io will revise, I will make tests and you Io will return."
Not it works this way.
They were controlled by the other ones.
Not it was that they had option,
you same Ilevaban
it was garbage or it was good,
you Ilevaban.
He/she gave them to him
to wholesalers.
The wholesalers Io divided
in 25, 50, 75, Io that was...
that their retailers wanted.
I remember that the kilo cost 40.000, 50.000 dollars
in the street for then.
They paid us to transport the kilos.
I believe that they paid us
3500 dollars the kilo.
To make sure that they gave us the money
alone we gave the half,
and they put the money in the cajuela,
and when they returned us the car
he/she gave them the rest of the product.
We are about maintaining to all far from all
and there was not this way way to rake him.
One of my fears was that those wholesalers,
that you Io gave to five different retailers,
that they caught one
and that for not wanting to go to the jail, he/she began to sing,
and he/she could tell them:
"This is the main type,
"follow it and he will bring them to me."
Rafa counted that he/she had to kill to a type
because Io caught and it will accuse them.
I heard strange histories,
so I tried
of never to need help.
To them they gave them the car,
they didn't know from where he/she came,
you already know, it is alone a car.
You never returned the car
where you had the coca, because you didn't want
to have the money and the drugs in the same place.
The money stayed in one of the hiding places.
He/she participated my of the money
and he/she kept the rest,
because he/she had to send
the money to Ochoa and Escobar.
Then we worked with Noriega in Panama.
The country of General Noriega
it is a meca for the laundry of money.
We put the money in our airplane
and we flew up to where it was people of Noriega.
It allowed them to use the airport for the landings.
We never sent an airplane
with less than ten millions.
Limitless quantities of money enter
and they leave the country without any requirement.
The laundry of money is not a crime.
The army took the money,
Io Ilevaban to the bank,
and we were partners in the bank with Noriega.
They opened the bills, you had a bill
and for Io that you wanted
you gave a check.
Many times he/she made a treatment.
Instead of paying me cash,
of the 500 kilos
they gave me 100 for me
and he/she could sell it to 25.000 dollars.
While Ilegaban the loads, it revised them
and it took out the best,
because they were not same,
and it put them here and there.
Max and I finish
making about 750.000, 1.000.000 dollars for trip.
Max told me that he used to make
250.000 alone for the transport.
ÉI was not only wet
when it could have been been at home,
but rather he/she was soaked
and it won more three times per week.
The drugs were in all sides.
All consumed cocaine.
I remember that was in the 80... !ugh!
The cocaine was in fashion.
It was something to show off.
You went to any side...
it could not leave to any side
without entering to the bathroom and...
When you entered to the bathroom, there was always
somebody aspiring a line.
You heard that he/she closed the door of the bathrooms
and you heard them aspire.
All entered something in the nose.
You saw to types
to leave the bathroom of the girls.
There were places where the tables
they were tapas of mirrors.
The waiters helped to the clients to mill the coca.
In a time in Miami, in the traffic accidents,
that they were common accidents,
3, 4 or 5 people sometimes left the car
that they ran in all addresses.
And they found cocaine and you arm in the car.
They stopped to a car and they found
30 handbags Ilenos with more than 900 kilos
of cocaine, with a purity of the 90 to 95%.
While the hauls and the seizures continue,
there is more cocaine in Florida of the South that never before.
We were of having cases of a kilo or two of cocaine
to 1000 kilos that it is a ton,
to 5000 kilos that are 10 tons.
During a period of five anuses
I presided over the trial of the case "the biggest quantity of cocaine in the history"
some ten times.
Each case was bigger than the previous one
and it imposed a new record.
In general, when the prices lower
it is a good news.
The exception is the prices of offer of the cocaine.
They were millions of dollars in drugs
that they fell of the sky.
One day a shepherd was giving a sermon
in a church of the south
and he/she was speaking against the drugs
and half million of dollars in cocaine
they cross the roof
because the airplane that Io was rushing
it left course
and it was pursued for an airplane of the customs.
The price of the white illegal powder
he/she fell 50% in both last anuses in Florida.
!My God! There were people from Cali,
another poster of Barranquilla.
You began to multiply the cocaine
that he/she entered to the country.
The connection Miami-Colombia
it is 80% of the 20.000 millions annual of the business of the cocaine.
Miami is one of the main branches
of Io that Ilamamos Cocaine, S.To.
Florida is flooded of cocaine.
- It was in all sides. - It was in all sides.
- Clubs, restaurants.
It was in all sides.
The elitist drug is now of labor class.
People common worker he/she believes that it is as the beer.
One of each ten workers it is drugged in the work.
People Io Ilevaba in the neck, non Io hid.
Nobody was about hiding it.
Undoubtedly I proved it, of course,
but I could never understand
what... why they liked.
It is very intense, I cannot describe it.
It is really well Io.
People one went mad.
Alone in Dade County, the lethal overdoses
they increased more than 88% in the last anus.
He/she makes 15 anuses, an annual death for cocaine
it was not very common. The deaths for cocaine
they have increased at two per week.
People began to smoke it.
The studies indicate that most
he/she has begun to smoke the drug.
? Did you come to smoke cocaine?
Yes.
And not the crack, but in their basic form,
because that Ilegó before the crack.
He/she transformed into furor.
They locked in the houses and they smoked.
I was awake four and a half days,
without stopping, without to eat neither to sleep.
Non Io understood, but he/she requested: "Make it."
For me it was a business,
and the more Io made, more money won.
I arrived here with about 800 dollars.
It was Io that had to my name.
He/she had about 25 or 26 anuses.
When I began in the business
it used the department of my grandfather in South Beach.
He/she had kilos there
and I will never forget the first time that he/she saw them.
He/she said: ?" What is this?". I counted him/her
and he/she told me: "Not I can understand it."
I responded: ?"You can understand
"that I am winning 50.000 a week?".
Once I told him/her:
"I will no longer use your house.
"I will pay to somebody."
"? How? Not make that, non Io makes."
And I told him/her: "Not it cares, now I have a million."
And he said: "Not you have a million dollars."
"I have a million, I will pay to somebody
"to put this in their house.
"I no longer need to make you this to you."
Then, a million for me
it was a lot of money.
It was the first million that won.
It was a lot of money, but after that...
By the middle of the 70
the American economy it was in chaos state.
The financial supplement of the Mlaml Herald
he/she spoke of a recession national that was in march.
There was a lot of unemployment, people lost her houses,
the real estate market it was disappearing.
The traffic of drugs it is affecting the economy
in Florida of the South.
But in Miami there were not houses to buy.
They could not be gotten
enough Rolex of gold to supply to the market.
In the first 6 months of 1977, the sales retailers in Miami
Ilegaron to the 10.000 millions.
Not there are recession signs.
Florida of the South stayed well
that many other parts of the country.
Here armored cars were sold
for hundred of thousands of dollars.
Ferraris neither Mercedes were not gotten.
Certain agencies of automobiles
they said that they have cars enough it stops less than one month.
They still admit in advance payments,
although the deliveries will be delayed.
All went to the business of the drugs.
The drugs and the money they go of the hand in Florida.
It is a business retailer of 7000 millions to the anus,
that is near 12.000 dollars for each house in Dade County.
If it looks for in their wallet in Miami
and it takes out a note and Io it analyzes
he/she will find cocaine in him.
The earnings of the gentlemen of the drug
they made that the local economy it resisted the recession.
Every day, he/she spills money in the economy of the coca.
They buy houses,
bounce, cars.
He/she Had a Porsche I Upset,
a Mercedes, then the 6.9 were in fashion.
We discuss once.
We get angry. He/she requested me something
and not you Io wanted to give.
I came closer and Io slapped.
It pursues me for the entrance
and we grab two Mercedes and we destroy them.
Jon took out a he/she arms and it shot to the car
to inclination... beside my head.
!I made that somebody you Ilevara
and it destroyed them!
We demolished both vehicles.
The following day I was laughing.
We destroy many things.
Skies, were cars for value of 100.000 dollars.
There was a company that you Ilamaba I.P. Evans Mercedes.
He/she had types like Max, Rafael, two or three employees of Rafael,
that they bought about 8 or 10 Mercedes to the anus
of Mercedes' concessionaire with a check of Panama.
? Who does buy 8 or 10 Mercedes to the anus?
Then, they didn't care it.
He/she entered and they told me: "? How it is, Sr. Roberts?
"? What does he/she need this week?".
"I need the 6.9 of there."
"Well?does he like it in black?"
"Yes, he doesn't care the color.
"And I need a van for their girlfriend."
And he/she gave him/her a check.
It was not even a box check.
He/she knew to the type in the concessionaire,
it was alone a check of a Panamanian bank
and I list, he/she had the car.
Very little it is made
to stop the propagation of the economy of the cocaine.
All wanted money then.
Not it is strange that a Latin spend 20.000 dollars or more
in all kinds of goods.
The best thing for the merchant it is that he/she pays him/her cash.
Although the merchants in Florida they don't consume drugs,
it is said that they can to be addicted to the money of the drug.
We Buy a Cessna Conquest.
We pay 980.000 dollars,
cash? what do they count me? Attempt it at some time.
Neither they blinked.
They believe to know
from where the money comes,
but they won't be desagradecidos.
They never blinked.
Not ask, don't speak, he/she takes the money and veto.
They didn't care a carajo.
The sale of cocaine and marijuana in Miami
it generates so much money
that the smugglers they don't have where to keep it.
Not they understand, he/she had bags of garbage in the garden
with 700.000 dollars, a million in each bag,
buried. Not he/she had another place.
ÉI used to keep it in the food of the horse.
I remember to look for the food of the horse
and to find money in the bag.
Nobody questioned anything,
because to my neighbor
he/she gave 10 kilos a week.
The neighborhood of Earth of the King
it was a ruin when we move.
To the neighbor of in front he/she gave him/her
20 kilos a week, this way what he took care.
All wanted money
and suddenly, all had money.
The whole neighborhood.
You wear out about 100.000 dollars of more
and it is well. Jon was that good.
Not it cared. Not it is that
he/she didn't have enough money.
? How could that be?
He/she had three boats in the back patio,
two pumas, two lionesses living in my house.
He/she had a helicopter in the back patio.
He/she used to go in helicopter to the careers.
All the other ones went in car.
He/she landed to see run to my horses
during one hour and he/she returned home.
He/she had, 40, 50 horses in that time.
Skies, he/she had excellent horses.
? Io that costs know to feed them one month?
50.000 to the alone month to feed them.
The cost didn't care
because Io had in the pocket.
People left party.
Suddenly there were dozens
of night clubs of first that you/they were inaugurated.
He/she already makes anuses that didn't open up a night club
in Miami Beach.
The Jockey Club, Turnberry,
Palm Bay Club, Cricket Club.
But the best of all was
The Mutiny, in Coconut Grove.
It was exclusively for the traffickers.
If you were in that business, you had the money.
You could entertain to people abundantly.
We used to go to the restaurants...
to have dinner to Arturo's or Palm
or to Joe's Stone Crab.
The Forge it was then the best restaurant.
They gave us the fourth bottom in The Forge
and we closed the room.
And we could spend 20.000 dollars in one night
and to destroy the walls.
We gave them the money so that Io that we broke fixed.
It was an I waste, the money was not anything.
Jon liked to go to the bars of nudes.
Not it was anything to spend 5000 dollars in a striptease club.
Not we speak of one night,
but of three or four a week.
He/she told to my friends: "? Do you see that girl?
"I guarantee you that I can to make that he/she goes to bed with you."
ÉI said: "Not there is way
"that he/she wants to go to bed with me."
He/she asked him/her: ?" How much you want
"to go to bed with this type?". "Non Io will make."
"?Will non Io make? I give you 500."
"Non Io will make." "I give you 1000."
"?Will non Io make? I give you 2000."
At the end, they stopped to resist.
2000, 3000 dollars. "I will make it."
And the type started to tremble,
they could not understand how Io achieved.
Although Miami has changed, I still believe
that all had a price. All Io has.
They are few those that not.
You could begin with Noriega in Panama
and to lower until
the administrators of the city, to the police.
If they stopped somebody
and they had 50 kilos, they were offered a tip.
One maybe is not able to coimear to a policeman with 20 dollars
or with 50 or 100, but there were hundred
of thousands of dollars.
Tell them that in one hour you will have
Io that they want cash.
Half million,
three million rooms.
But you should leave with the coca.
He/she almost always gave result.
He/she knew a lieutenant
that Bay worked in North Village.
I came closer one day and I told him/her:
"I want to discharge some boats
"behind police's department
"?do you believe that there will be problems?".
And he/she said: He/she "looks, we will use two patrol.
"Put it in the cajuelas
"and Ilevaremos to where you want."
We accuse four mayors
most sentenced by corruption.
We were very powerful and we had a lot of money.
?There are places where they have more power
- that the government? - Hey... Unfortunately,
I believe that it is certain.
I was member of the republican circle.
Howard Baker sent me a letter:
"Send me the contribution and you can come to Washington."
AIlí was, with the senators and the fat fish
and neither one of them asked me
neither to what I was devoted in Miami.
They accepted me
because I made a great contribution
to the Republican party.
It was in that circle and I told myself:
"I made all this with the drugs
"and Io made with alone that."
The traffic of cocaine and the money
almost they ruin the morality of this community.
Millions of dollars cash
they support to a net of banks of drugs.
?Have you done a city with so many banks?
?You will tell me that that class exists
of industry and businesses here?
Please.
That makes the government suspect
it is that the last anus the banks of Florida of the South
you Ilevaron 6000 million dollars extra of the savers.
The presidents of the banks they counted money during days.
?Is Landmark a bank of the coca?
Definitively not.
The banks invested in machines accountants of money.
For lack of space, the banks Io surrendered
to the Federal Reserve.
A bank of this size deposits
near 12 million dollars to the anus in the Federal Reserve.
The last anus, the Continental-National
it deposited 600 million dollars cash.
? He/she means
that this bank is not legal?
Here the money is counted
of the Federal Reserve in Miami.
The last anus, the Federal Reserve of here
it generated a surplus of effective of 5000 millions,
more money than all the other banks of Federal Reserve
of the whole country.
To Miami it can describe it
as the general barracks of the exterior
for the laundry of money of the Colombians.
I bought properties for all sides.
There are thousands of properties
that they are worth more than 1000 million dollars
that they were bought with illegal money in Florida of the South.
A couple of houses.
A navy.
The property where my business was.
We buy departments.
Many deposits.
We buy 190 hectares of earth in Tampa.
A real estate great business.
We buy one of the buildings
to transform it into a radio room.
Four hundred hectares in Central Florida.
The traffickers bought 8, 10, 15 houses.
In a place in the south of Miami,
he/she was owner of almost the whole neighborhood.
He/she had 24 million dollars in properties.
One day I will work and I enter to the Interstate one 95,
the one that gives me a beautiful view of the center of Miami.
"He/she looks at that", and we count
22 cranes for the construction
that they were seen in the horizon.
"I wonder how much of that money it is of the drugs."
!Skies! ? How much did I spend?
There was so much money that once he/she entered
you could no longer destroy.
Maybe Io that I kept in the bank...
at least 50 million dollars.
Thousands of millions will have financed
much of the development and of the construction in Miami.
But it was spotted money of blood.
I center commercial Dadeland July 11 1979 - 14.28 hours
1979 were the anus
in that the things became serious.
Dadeland was the moment definitorio.
The first shooting in the war of the cocaine.
The shooting happened at 14.30 o'clock
when two Latins entered to a liquor store
in the side west of the commercial center.
Two or three Latins followed them more
and there the shooting began.
We knew immediately
that it was another shooting among Colombian for drug.
Two people have died
and others are wounded.
Inside the liquor store, a Colombian
and another no-Cuban Latin suspects of traffic of drugs
they lie in a puddle of blood.
I was running until there and I said:
"I am of the Mlaml Herald, ?do Io that happened here know?".
The policemen were in shock state.
Never in my life I saw...
hey... such a quantity of...
hey... ?how to say it?
In 1979, Ilevaba two anuses in homicides.
But this went further on
of Io that anyone it could have imagined.
There were glasses and wastes for all sides.
There were bullet cases in the wall, the floor,
in the shelf, it seemed a shooting of the old west.
The aggressor shot
for the whole parking lot.
? Io that happened them saw
when it finished the shooting?
- They left running. - ?Where?
Not I know, I was running.
The innocent pedestrians they looked for refuge,
the cars were riddled with metralletas,
the tanks of gasoline they spilled their content.
There were two scenes, the main scene
where they were the bodies, in the liquor store,
and the secondary scene, to the one that you/they assigned me
it is the one that you Ilamó the van of war.
They found a van
to the north of the commercial center.
With the open door and the lit motor.
It was a van Ford Econoline 1979
transformed into armed people's transport.
It was the machine of the death.
He/she had steel reinforced to the sides.
The windows were taken out to be able to shoot.
He/she Said Happy "Supplying Hour" in the side.
We find 14 different weapons.
These murderers they were as the glasses descartables
clever to discard.
They shot a he/she arms until it was empty,
they threw it and they took another.
There was of everything, shotguns, carbines, MAC-10, an Uzi,
several guns, ammunition for all.
I believe that the van of the war it was the decisive moment
where the police he/she realized to Io that faced
and how overcome they were.
? What he/she tells him/her the quantity of armament
in that van?
Well... that they are very armed
and that... they are prepared to give battle.
The bullets flew for all sides.
The total bill was of 86 bullets
that they were shot of all the weapons.
Skies, I don't know...
I don't know how many times they shot them.
They had so many bullet wounds
that it was me impossible
to determine the exact number of shots.
We made the pursuit standard,
the van it was registered with a false name.
The weapons bought them with false names.
We went to the addresses
but they had already escaped.
It was the Colombian typical case.
Not us Ilevó to any side.
The police registered the neighborhood
during more than one hour, but they didn't find suspicious.
I told myself: "Another open" slope.
That means a case without solving
because so far we have not been successful
in closing the Colombian murder.
We have a new phenomenon,
this violence doesn't have precedent.
The sophistication didn't have precedent.
I believe that it was the first case
where there was a shooting
in a public place in the mean of the day
when people happened over there.
After that, it frequently happened.
It was the principle of a war, the war of the cocaine.
The detectives of homicides
they say that Miami is in the mean of a war
among drug traffickers Colombian and Cuban.
Miami was changing.
The Colombians they were tossing to the Cubans.
There was a lot of noise to share the market.
One of the reasons of the violence
it was due to the competitive factions.
And the violence converted Miami in the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
This Way Ilaman, the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
Ilaman the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
This of the Horsemen of the Cocaine, they were people from Medellín.
The calculations say that they are 100.000
the Colombian illegal residents
that they live and they work for the traffic of drugs in Florida.
They went after their objective,
they killed the wife, to the maid.
"If there is a dog there, Io will kill."
"If there is a bird, Io I will kill,
"if there is a pececito, Io I will kill."
If a girl Ilamaba to the door to sell cookies,
they also killed her.
Stopped people there, children.
They killed anyone.
They killed visible anyone.
Jesús Hernández, a machine gun discharge
Io destroyed in its car
in a street converged at noon.
Machine gun fire.
And then I heard the one...
An Iluvia of bullets Ilenó the department,
a sign of identity of the Horsemen of the Cocaine.
In the freeways, the tolls, the national one 1,
in some residential streets.
Red Mustang went toward to the north
in the avenue 107.
The green sedan stopped beside the driver and he/she opened fire.
The tools of the death, you arm automatic and shotguns.
This is Io that you leave in television,
that doesn't leave in the real life.
The witnesses said that it was a war zone.
To the style Mlaml Vlce, but without the cameras.
But this was the real life, it was happening.
They killed over there at five,
three over there.
A calm area of Kendall
it was the scenario of a slaughter.
They were six bodies in an elegant house.
The police says that it is the worst
case of multiple murder in the history of the city.
It is believed that the massacre it is related with the drugs.
We speak of slaughters that in this time
they would have journalistic covering
of all the television channels.
That level of violence was to newspaper
and the local means, because we were saturated of it,
they said: "Ah, another double" homicide.
"Ah, another triple homicide."
It was common that we were
jumping of a scene from the crime to another.
He/she had to have more than four deads
so that it was important.
I remember five murders that they happened one night.
They happened eight murders in Dade in the last 48 hours.
You never knew when you will trip
with another body.
Miami looked like each other
to the slaughter of San Valentine's Day of the anuses 20 in Chicago.
Gánsteres managing for the streets
stopped of side
with their machine guns Thompson.45
tiroteándose in Chicago in the anuses 30.
What happens here
he/she would make that Chicago, in the days of the dry law
it seemed a picnic of a Sunday school.
One of the policemen said that he/she resembled Dodge City.
It seemed the Distant West then in that.
But he/she made a mistake, because Dodge City
it was never as violent as Io it was Miami.
Miami in the anuses 80 were considered
the most dangerous place in the earth.
The city of the murder was Detroit, then Atlanta, and now Miami.
In 1976, 104 murders were investigated.
The first seven months of 1979
they were the bloodiest in the history of Florida of the South.
There were 573 homicides in 1980.
1981 will break another record
of murders in Miami.
I believe that there will be more than 600 murders
for anus ends.
While the traffic of drugs prospers,
the average of homicides in Dade it will continue ascending.
The crime in Miami ascended and the tourism lowered.
In spite of the pessimism that people predict,
we predict that we will have
more arrivals of tourists in the area of Miami
for the summer of Io that we had the passed anus,
that it was an exceptional anus.
For Fidel Castro it was the equivalent one
to a genocide act.
Of a single time, it liberated Cuba
of thousands and thousands of undesirable.
It emptied the jails, it tossed to the vagrants
of the streets of Havana. Murderers, thieves, perverts,
prostitutes, slowed, discapacitados,
all joined and they were sent Mariel Harbor
and of there in boats in address to Miami.
Fidel Castro declared openly:
"I threw of the chain of the bathrooms of Cuba on EE UU."
And he/she bounced of it.
A ship came out toward EE UU every 5 minutes,
Ilegaban without nuisances day and night.
It was something common in Florida of the South.
Shootings, dead people
and most of the time, the murderers
they are those that came from Cuba in 1980.
As consequence, the rate of murders it was duplicated.
It was as if there is correspondent an army invader
so that it violated, he/she stole and it set on fire the city.
And it is Io that are making.
I assault serious, violations, robberies.
In little time, we had bodies in the floor.
We had to heap them. It was a shame.
There have been so many murders
in Miami lately
that a refrigerated truck is in use
for the office of the forensic surgeon of Dade
to keep the bodies.
They had fixed to rent it
to Burger King, that he/she has the central office here.
It was very angry.
The martian have invaded us.
These types are unhinged.
To anybody it seemed to care him/her Io that happened
in the streets of Miami. For that reason I spoke.
Psychologically, they are not even human.
They are animal... not even animals,
that it is an insult to the animal Kingdom.
Not there were law neither order.
We all carry weapons. My wife,
my two children.
They will see that I have a loaded shotgun