Drug Cartels | Inside Miami’s Drug Wars with Hotel Cocaine | 1

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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It’s 1978 in Miami, Florida. The hottest spot in town is a club located inside the world famous Mutiny Hotel. And it’s also the epicenter of Miami’s infamous drug wars.The new MGM+ Hotel Cocaine takes you deep into this world, where every pleasure has a price. David sat down with creator and showrunner Chris Brancato and series stars Danny Pino and Mark Feuerstein to learn more about the glamorous Mutiny Club and the darker reality that surrounded it.For more on the illicit cocaine trade and the battles that followed, check out our season “Drug Cartels,” airing only on Wondery+ on August 7.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can binge new seasons of Business Wars, ad free right now.
0:06.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery app or on Apple Podcasts. I'm David Brown and this is Business Wars. If you were looking at a party during Miami's disco era, there was one place you had to get into.
0:47.0	The hottest Pleasure Palace in Miami.
0:49.0	No, the whole damn world was a place that made Studio 54 look like a church picnic.
0:56.0	The Mutant Club.
0:58.0	The club at Miami's Mutiny Hotel was one of the hottest spots in town in the late 70s
1:02.4	and early 80s.
1:04.0	And it also happened to be the epicenter of Miami's Drug Wars.
1:08.6	Later this summer, we're going to be going inside Columbia's underworld
1:11.9	in our series Drug Cart drug cartels where top dogs like
1:14.7	Pablo Escobar take no prisoners in a fierce turf war for market supremacy.
1:19.2	But before we get there, we're taking a trip down to Coconut Grove to see the mutiny hotel in its hey day.
1:26.5	That's the setting of the new MGM Plus series Hotel Cocaine, which explores Miami's drug wars through the eyes of the Cuban exiles who built the scene in the 1970s.
1:36.0	The show follows the Mutiny Club manager Roman Comte,
1:40.0	a Cuban who escaped Fidel Castro's takeover to start a new life in Miami.
1:45.0	But when a DEA agent comes knocking at the mutiny for information on Raman's estranged brother,
1:51.0	one of the biggest drug lords in the game, well things get complicated.
1:56.6	Today we are joined by Chris Brancato, the creator and showrunner of Hotel Cocaine.
2:01.8	Chris shares the real stories that inspired Hotel Cocaine. Chris shares the real stories that inspired Hotel Cocaine and how the drug trade transformed Miami in the 20th century.
2:09.0	Later, we'll hear from the stars of Hotel Cocaine, Danny Pino, and Mark Foyerstein.
2:15.0	Danny plays the hotel club manager Romine Comte,
2:18.0	and Mark plays the mutiny hotel's owner, Burton Greenbird.
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