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.
--The incredible true story that inspired "Scarface" and "Miami Vice"
---the cocaine cowboys operation continued and grew until one of the men in the group was taken into custody and snitched on the entire operation.
People involved:
*Jon Roberts ...
**Al Sunshine ...
*Sam Burstyn ...
*Mickey Munday ...
Bob Palumbo ...
Toni Mooney ...
Edna Buchanan ...
Al Singleton ...
Louis Caruso ...
Raul Diaz ...
Jorge Ayala ... (as Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala)
Nelson Andreu ...
WATCH THE MOVIE COCAINE COWBOYS FOUND ON LIME WIRE,ECT.
people call them the cocaine cowboys NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE ADVENTUROUS LIKE COWBOYS....but because they were the first to venture into the cocaine frontier at the time when they began it was unknown and unexplored territory....just like a cowboy in the wild wild west :)
A group of adventurous drug runners in the 70's. Who brought in the first large shipments of the drug. named cowboys due to the fact that they were mainly in it for the adventure. Depictaed in the film BLOW and in the book of the same cnwboy name
Henrick is sniffing mad dope tonight. Look at that dope ring around Head Ham's nose. Flim Flam is a dope head. Henrick sure is a cocaine Cocaine Cowboy
if you want to be more effective in the drug wars, listen to Marshall Zhukov and kill not only the cocaine cowboy but also all people in the United States who produce and/or distribute the drugs, but don't consume said drugs themselves.
A drug trafficker who illegally stores and traffics crack cocaine from one location to another, like a Cowboy who herds cattle. Hence the name, Cocaine cowboy.
"Before his incarceration, Jimmy was a Cocaine cowboy who shipped crack from Columbia to the south coast US.