Dadeland

You are building your empire, hiring fishermen, all of that stuff, you know, to to run these these trips down to Columbia and back in Miami.

You know, two gunmen open fire in broad daylight at the Dadeland Mall, and then the press coins them cocaine cowboys.

What was happening in your world when you heard about Dadeland? I was just saying, I'm glad I'm

out of Florida.

I mean, I saw that coming, you know.

The Mariel boatlift, uh, was devastating for the community in that sense.

Um, you had the McDuffie uprising just a little bit before that, the Dadeland massacre.

Um, the s- the city had already become sort of the stand-in for both the war on drugs and, you know, the crime capital of America.

So narcotrafficking, you name it.