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Forget Pain & Gain: Ten Other Real-Life Miami Capers That Should Be Made Into...
Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta’s Cocaine EmpireCue the humble beginnings, with a pair of friends dropping out of Miami Beach High School together, and flash to the pair at the top of their game, when...
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After 25 years in prison, Cocaine Cowboys hitman wants reduced sentence...
via Miami Herald:Cocaine Cowboys hitman Jorge Ayala, suspected of 35 drug slayings and convicted in three, wants out of prison.Ayala, whose penchant for dirty talk with secretaries dealt a damaging...
View ArticleRosie O'Donnell Sells Star Island Ganja House For $12.675M
Rosie O’Donnell has sold her Star Island hacienda - the house that used to be the HQ of the Ganja fueled Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, the house with the gorgeous banyan tree in the front yard, the...
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Once Home To A Dreaded Drug Lord, Medellin Remakes Itself (NPR)
Once the home of the cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, it recorded more than 6,300 homicides in 1991, making it the world’s murder capital. Then, one city government after another built schools and...
View ArticleMiami Is the Capital of Deadly ATF Stings: 130 Charged, 7 Killed
via Miami New Times:Miami is chock full of more cocaine than a Mexican narco-piñata. And yet, the city’s most dangerous drug may just be imaginary.According to an investigation by USA Today, Miami is...
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A $2.8 Million Gold Heist Shows Cuban Gangs Still Rule Miami
via Miami New Times:…[Raonel] Valdez’s gold heist wasn’t just an extraordinarily bold theft. The untold story of his exploits — from a run of escalating crimes in Miami-Dade County to a jaw-dropping...
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Colombia extradites drug lord called 'The Madman' to US
The most notorious Colombian drug lord since Pablo Escobar is now headed to the U.S. in handcuffs, after plastic surgery failed to conceal his identity from police.Daniel Barrera, AKA El Loco or The...
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When America turned to gangsters to oust Castro
via Salon:In 1960, the CIA met with Cuban exiles and mobsters to wage a counterrevolution and revive Cuba’s gambling colony.Permalink
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Coast Guard Unloads $35 Million in Cocaine at Miami Beach Base
via CBS4: A high-speed chase played out like a movie scene in the Caribbean Sea this week and the load of cocaine was brought to Miami Saturday morning.A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter hunted down a...
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Juan David Ochoa, Founder of the Medellin Cartel, Dies
via Daily Mail (UK): Juan David Ochoa The eldest of the three Ochoa brothers who founded one of Colombia's most notorious cocaine cartels has died of a heart attack at age 65.Juan David Ochoa died on...
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Judge Delays Ruling on Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala's Request for Sentence Reduction
Jorge 'Rivi' Ayala in Miami-Dade Court (photo via @DavidOValle305) via Miami Herald: Cocaine Cowboys hitman Jorge Rivera Ayala, suspected of 35 drug slayings and convicted in three, made a return to...
View ArticleThe Tanning of America premieres February 24th on VH1
Our new 4 hour documentary miniseries The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip Hop premieres Monday, February 24th at 11pm ET on VH1.
View ArticleThe Tanning of America screening at the Paley Center
via The Paley Center for Media:SPECIAL PREVIEW: VH1 ROCK DOCS PRESENTSThe Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip HopThursday, February 20, 20146:00 pm Reception; 7:00 pm Screening &...
View ArticleMove That Dope: Future (Ft. Pharrell, Pusha T & Casino)
"Cocaine, cocaine cowboy, like Mickey Munday"
View ArticleThe Process behind ESPN’s ’30 for 30′ documentaries: ‘We want to tell stories...
Ed Sherman interviewed ESPN Films executive producer John Dahl about the 30 for 30 series:Take, for instance, “The Fab Five.” People knew about the Fab Five. What were you able to do to take that story...
View ArticleThe Tanning of America now streaming online
Part One: Word is BornGet More: Diddy, The Tanning of America, Music News, Rock DocsPart Two: Fight The PowerGet More: Diddy, The Tanning of America, Music News, Rock DocsPart Three: Gimme The LootGet...
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The first reviews are in for Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded
DVD Talk: "Even with the longer running time, it's a really engaging watch...a visually arresting and historically insane time capsule of sorts, a fascinating portrait of a bygone era that would shape...
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