Movie Review: Cocaine Cowboys By Billy Cohen

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The documentary Cocaine Cowboys by Billy Cohen sheds light on how the cocaine industry took its hold on Miami Florida. The cocaine cowboys are the people who opened up a new frontier for selling and transporting drugs. This documentary does a great job showing the viewer who may not have a lot of knowledge on the drug war why it is so important. The film starts off by describing why the drug trade was so desirable to the people of Miami. The film introduces the audience to three people who helped sell and transport drugs. These people would use planes to take drugs from colombia to Miami. The three people described about how people in the city would go crazy for the drug and there was no law enforcement when it came to this drug. The reason …show more content…

The film explains how Miami was a peaceful town know as a place for sunshine and old people. After the drug trade in miami began the city had the highest homicide rate in the entire country. This entire city which used to be a vacation spot had turned into a place where people felt they needed to carry a gun everywhere they went. One reporter in the film describes that she didn’t feel safe in the town anymore. The murders got so out of hand that people didn’t even bat an eye when they heard there was a homicide in Miami. Murders became so common on the streets of Miami that people would hear gun shots around them during the day and night. The colombians were ruthless and didn’t care who they had to kill. One woman Griselda Blanco who was a cocaine trafficker in Miami known as The Godmother. this woman was know to kill people for no reason. She had hired gunman who would kill entire families and other random people just because they were around when the hit was happening. This woman was reckless and was said to have contributed to at least two hundred murders in the Miami area. This information presented in the film is correct. The information helps show the viewer what a menace the cocaine and the cocaine cowboys were. These people terrorized a city that used to be a peaceful place. This documentary does a great job showing …show more content…

What once was an open land for the drug trade to flourish became a place where the cocaine cowboys were killed, had to hide out away from the city, or they were put in jail. While the drug trade is still prevalent it doesn’t have a strangle hold on the city like it once had. The law enforcement in Miami for the most part is no longer corrupt and actually attempts to do right with their duties of making sure that drugs and drug dealers stay off the streets. This documentary does a great job showing the audience the history of the drug trade. The roots of this countries epidemic is explained in the film giving the viewer a proper look at what the drug trade has done to not just Miami but to the entire country. This documentary accurately portrays a reality that drug trade and the cocaine cowboys are a menace and everything possible should be done to get them off the streets of this nation. Miami is just one city that was affected. It was the beginning of the epidemic due to its close proximity to Colombia. But although Miami was one of the first places affected and it did get hit hard by the drug trade. The drug problem is something that the entire country has to deal with every day. This Documentary show the world that the drug trade is a problem and it needs to

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