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Day 4 - 'Hotel Scarface' by Roben Farzad.
An excellent piece of journalism - the hotel in the title was the Mutiny Club in Miami - the unofficial base for the serious coke dealers of the 70's and 80's - in origin virtually all anti-Castro Cuban exiles and veterans of the Bay of Pigs fiasco - who realised they weren't going home any time soon and transferred the skill set the CIA had helpfully provided them with to smuggling gigantic quantities of drugs. The amount of money they were making was truly jaw dropping - at one point Pablo Escobar was spending half a million dollars a year on elastic bands to bundle up his cash. Things start to go wrong in the mid-80's - law enforcement agencies finally get their act together - 'outsiders' try to get a bit of the pie and the violence becomes extreme - any of the original smugglers not dead or in jail were twisted after years of abusing their high purity product. Quality hedonism.
Cheers - I.
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