After him marrying my mother, me being born, and him seeing the lifestyle, the money, the cars, the power.

My father said he got infatuated with it.

He was like, this is what I was born for.

You know, I would have died for Rafa in a heartbeat because he made me a somebody.

My father said, I touched a million before you were born.

That's when I see lights behind me start to flash.

And I didn't even think.

I just hit it.

I was driving like my life depended on.

Then I parked the car, hopped out, closed the door, and I started running.

And he pulls out a burner, shanks, like six inches.

And then he passes it to me and he goes here

that's yours don't ever leave the cell block without this he was the reason i made it out of that

place alive welcome back to the connect my name is johnny mitchell this week we're talking

about miami the history of the cocaine trade there, specifically by groups

like the cocaine cowboys and the legacy that they left on South Florida.

If you're a fan of this show, it's likely you've already heard of the cocaine cowboys.

But if not, here's a little refreshing.

The cocaine cowboys refers to the first generation of drug dealers who migrated to Miami

in the mid-1970s to sell blow for the new CEOs of the Medellín cartel,

Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar. There were the white boys like John Roberts and Mickey Monday,

who smuggled untold tons of cocaine for the cartel. And the infamous Griselda Blanco, also known as La Madrina,

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