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.
Colombian drugs traffickers have taken advantage of one of the world’s poorest countries and turned it into the main transit point for hundreds of tons of cocaine smuggled into Europe every year.
The Coast Guard offloaded more than 40,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $500 million from cutter Sherman here April 23, 2007, seized by the crew in three busts near Central America in February and March.
Dateline news report on how the CIA brought cocaine into the US during the 1980s, igniting the crack epidemic. The late investigative journalist Gary Webb discusses how “Freeway Ricky Ross” was only a small player in a much larger scheme by the CIA to traffic drugs into America. Former DEA agent Cele Castillo is also interviewed, speaking about how when he worked for the DEA and witnessed drug trafficking, he was told that it was a code operation being run by the White House! After the dateline report, Alex Jones offers further insight into the system of control that the US government has manufactured with it’s so called “War on Drugs”. This news piece is extremely damning evidence of the drug running conducted by the US government!
Watch the video clip: Dateline report on CIA drug trafficking into the US with follow-up commentary by Alex Jones