What I've dedicated my life to is revenge. A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel. They think they're better than us. Who do you think you are? I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong. She's punishing me. You destroyed my family. I will not rest until I've destroyed yours. A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9. In less than three hours, I showed them the 50 birds. And he freaked out. Ever since then, I was his go-to guy, his number one guy. I stashed the dope. I saw the dope and I stashed the money. Colombians have it. Cubans bring it. Americans use it. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. 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, shank, like six inches. And 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.

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to The Connect. My name is Johnny Mitchell. Okay, so we've gone

through the history of the cocaine cowboys, the first generation of Colombian immigrants to expand and

essentially start the cocaine business in the United States in Miami.

But no story about drugs and cocaine dealing in Miami would be complete without talking about

the Cubans, Los Cubanos. The Cuban Americans were to Miami what the Dominicans were to New York

City back in the day. Yes, the Colombians were the Kingpins,

of course. They were the manufacturers who got the product from the factory floor to the hub,

in this case, Miami. But the Cubans were the ones with the numbers. They made it move.

The west coast of Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida. They say if you stand in Key West,

you could actually see the lights of Havana at night. So naturally, Miami has always been a hub for Cuban immigrants, but especially after the 1959 revolution and Castro came to power.

But it wasn't until 1980 in the Mario Boatlift when the Castro regime dispelled

hundreds of thousands of undesirables

from the island, did Miami then really see this explosion of Cuban criminals? Just like Tony

Montana portrayed in Scarface, they were known as the Mario Littos. So this Cuban crime wave coincided

perfectly with the influx of Colombian coke that was flooding the city.

And just like New York City at the time, the Colombians did not have the manpower to supply

the demand of their new booming industry.

They needed an ally with numbers, and the Cubans had the numbers.

And that's where first generation Cubans like Apache stepped in.

So while we were in Miami, we went down to Little Havana to the famous 8th Street

to interview a man who calls himself Apache.

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