Watching “Cocaine Cowboys” is like watching the highlights of Blow, Scarface and Casino for 2 hours straight. Lots of snorting, lots of killing, and “fokin Colombians.”
Up until the 70’s Miami was a place for old folks to retire and wait for life to end. But the easy acess to South America cause the cocaine import to flourish into town. The spike in drug trade jolted the local economy, so no one had any reason to complain.
But suddenly the cocaine wars started and produced casualties that no one had seen in their lifetimes. It took a national effort to put an end to the spiraling out of control violence and trade.
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I love Cocaine Cowboys. I’m dying to write a screenplay on Griselda Blanco, AKA the “Black Widow”. She was notorious for killing her husbands, rumored to be a lesbian, and made Scarface look like Hello Kitty slinging fairy dust. How has no one made a movie about her yet? One of her men killed a child by accident, and she just shrugged her shoulders and said, “at least we got him.” She was brutal.
