Cocaine Cowboys Page #7

To Miami it can describe it

as the general barracks of the exterior

for the laundry of money

of the Colombians.

I bought properties for all sides.

There are thousands of properties

that they are worth more than 1000 million dollars

that they were bought with illegal money

in Florida of the South.

A couple of houses.

A navy.

The property where my business was.

We buy departments.

Many deposits.

We buy 190 hectares

of earth in Tampa.

A real estate great business.

We buy one of the buildings

to transform it into a radio room.

Four hundred hectares in Central Florida.

The traffickers bought 8, 10, 15 houses.

In a place in the south of Miami,

he/she was owner of almost the whole neighborhood.

He/she had 24 million dollars

in properties.

One day I will work

and I enter to the Interstate one 95,

the one that gives me a beautiful view

of the center of Miami.

"He/she looks at that", and we count

22 cranes for the construction

that they were seen in the horizon.

"I wonder how much

of that money it is of the drugs."

!Skies! ? How much did I spend?

There was so much money that once he/she entered

you could no longer destroy.

Maybe Io that I kept in the bank...

at least 50 million dollars.

Thousands of millions will have financed

much of the development

and of the construction in Miami.

But it was spotted money of blood.

I center commercial Dadeland

July 11 1979 - 14.28 hours

1979 were the anus

in that the things became serious.

Dadeland was the moment definitorio.

The first shooting in the war of the cocaine.

The shooting happened at 14.30 o'clock

when two Latins entered to a liquor store

in the side west of the commercial center.

Two or three Latins followed them more

and there the shooting began.

We knew immediately

that it was another shooting

among Colombian for drug.

Two people have died

and others are wounded.

Inside the liquor store, a Colombian

and another no-Cuban Latin

suspects of traffic of drugs

they lie in a puddle of blood.

I was running until there and I said:

"I am of the i Mlaml Herald, /i

?do Io that happened here know?".

The policemen were in shock state.

Never in my life I saw...

hey... such a quantity of...

hey... ?how to say it?

In 1979, I spent two years in homicide.

But this went further on

of Io that anyone

it could have imagined.

There were glasses and wastes for all sides.

There were bullet cases

in the wall, the floor,

in the shelf, it seemed

a shooting of the old west.

The aggressor shot

for the whole parking lot.

? Io that happened them saw

when it finished the shooting?

- They left running.

- ?Where?

Not I know, I was running.

The innocent pedestrians

they looked for refuge,

the cars were riddled

with metralletas,

the tanks of gasoline

they spilled their content.

There were two scenes, the main scene

where they were

the bodies, in the liquor store,

and the secondary scene,

to the one that you/they assigned me

it is the one that you Ilam

the van of war.

They found a van

to the north of the commercial center.

With the open door and the lit motor.

It was a van Ford Econoline 1979

transformed into armed people's transport.

It was the machine of the death.

He/she had steel reinforced to the sides.

The windows were taken out

to be able to shoot.

He/she Said Happy "Supplying Hour"

in the side.

We find 14 different weapons.

These murderers

they were as the glasses descartables

clever to discard.

They shot a he/she arms

until it was empty,

they threw it and they took another.

There was of everything, shotguns,

carbines, MAC-10, an Uzi,

several guns, ammunition for all.

I believe that the van of the war

it was the decisive moment

where the police

he/she realized to Io that faced

and how overcome they were.

? What he/she tells him/her the quantity of armament

in that van?

Well... that they are very armed

and that... they are prepared to give battle.

The bullets flew for all sides.

The total bill was of 86 bullets

that they were shot of all the weapons.

Skies, I don't know...

I don't know how many times they shot them.

They had so many bullet wounds

that it was me impossible

to determine the exact number of shots.

We made the pursuit standard,

the van

it was registered with a false name.

The weapons bought them

with false names.

We went to the addresses

but they had already escaped.

It was the Colombian typical case.

Not us Ilev to any side.

The police registered the neighborhood

during more than one hour,

but they didn't find suspicious.

I told myself:
"Another open" slope.

That means a case without solving

because so far

we have not been successful

in closing the Colombian murder.

We have a new phenomenon,

this violence doesn't have precedent.

The sophistication didn't have precedent.

I believe that it was the first case

where there was a shooting

in a public place in the mean of the day

when people happened over there.

After that, it frequently happened.

It was the principle of a war,

the war of the cocaine.

The detectives of homicides

they say that Miami is

in the mean of a war

among drug traffickers

Colombian and Cuban.

Miami was changing.

The Colombians

they were tossing to the Cubans.

There was a lot of noise

to share the market.

One of the reasons of the violence

it was due to the competitive factions.

And the violence converted Miami

in the Horsemen of the Cocaine.

This Way Ilaman, the Horsemen of the Cocaine.

Ilaman the Horsemen of the Cocaine.

This of the Horsemen of the Cocaine,

they were people from Medelln.

The calculations say that they are 100.000

the Colombian illegal residents

that they live and they work

for the traffic of drugs in Florida.

They went after their objective,

they killed the wife, to the maid.

"If there is a dog there, Io will kill."

"If there is a bird, Io I will kill,

"if there is a pececito, Io I will kill."

If a girl Ilamaba

to the door to sell cookies,

they also killed her.

Stopped people there, children.

They killed anyone.

They killed visible anyone.

Jess Hernndez,

a machine gun discharge

Io destroyed in its car

in a street converged at noon.

Machine gun fire.

And then I heard the one...

An Iluvia of bullets Ilen the department,

a sign of identity

of the Horsemen of the Cocaine.

In the freeways, the tolls, the national one 1,

in some residential streets.

Red Mustang went toward to the north

in the avenue 107.

The green sedan stopped

beside the driver and he/she opened fire.

The tools of the death,

you arm automatic and shotguns.

This is Io that you leave in television,

that doesn't leave in the real life.

The witnesses said

that it was a war zone.

To the style i Mlaml Vlce, /i but without the cameras.

But this was the real life,

it was happening.

They killed over there at five,

three over there.

A calm area of Kendall

it was the scenario of a slaughter.

They were six bodies

in an elegant house.

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