Killing the Lieutenant: Fighting Miami’s Cocaine Wars, Hunting Griselda Blanco...with Lt. Raul Diaz and Sean Oliver.
William Ramsey Investigates
William Ramsey Investigates
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have two very special guests. |
| 0:08.0 | They've just worked together and published a book. You're watching this on YouTube, Rumble X. |
| 0:14.0 | Substack now. You'll see the cover of their excellent book. The full title is Killing the Lieutenant, |
| 0:20.0 | fighting Miami's cocaine wars, hunting Griselda Blanco in my the cover of their excellent book. The full title is Killing the Lieutenant, |
| 0:24.2 | Fighting Miami's Cocaine Wars, Hunting Grisel de Blanco, |
| 0:25.9 | in my fight to Stay Alive, |
| 0:28.9 | and it's written by Lieutenant Raoul J. Diaz, |
| 0:32.3 | and he is co-writer, co-author, is Sean Oliver. |
| 0:34.9 | And I actually saw Sean's name pop up earlier about this book, Monkey Morales. |
| 0:36.5 | I saw him on interviews. |
| 0:38.2 | So when I was open this book, I was pleasantly surprised to see that he was the author of that as well. |
| 0:43.7 | I kind of made the connection. And he's mentioned in this book. There's a lot of very interesting |
| 0:48.2 | first person accounts in this book of Lieutenant Diaz's life in Miami as somebody who fled Cuba. |
| 0:56.1 | And we're talking in the pre-show. |
| 0:57.5 | It's actually current today because I think it was Raul Castro, I think is his name. |
| 1:02.9 | I can't remember his first name. |
| 1:04.1 | But he was indicted, I think, today or yesterday, which we're talking about. |
| 1:07.9 | And they can add more to that and talk about that. |
| 1:10.0 | But there's a lot in this book. |
| 1:11.7 | It's a great account of growing up in Miami at that time. There's a lot going on in Miami that has |
| 1:17.6 | led into common culture, the anti-Caster Cubans, things that happen around Kennedy, that he can talk |
| 1:24.0 | more about. They both can talk more about. So Sean Oliver and Raul Diaz, welcome to the show. |
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