Drug trafficking is the mass-production of drugs in one country distributed to another for expected profit. The notorious bosses of the drug trafficking at the time were the infamous Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and Griselda Blanco. The two main smuggled drugs were cocaine and marijuana. They were smuggled by plane, boat, and human mules. To hide the abundant profits they’d money launder, hide money in safe, and even went to the extent of having their money built into house walls just to avoid the law. The violence in Florida increased to mass murders. Colombian cartels have controlled the producing, buying, and selling of drugs for many years on. During the 1970’s and 1980’s, the drug lords had increased profits from thousands to billions of dollars yearly. The drug traffickers had made high connections with better intel for the time. It was in the last few years of the 1980’s when the United States …show more content…
Revenue was in the billions. The profits were masked to avoid trouble with the law. The mass amounts of money laundered led to the growth of cities in Florida. Such as Miami, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, and Orlando. Cocaine was known as the party drug populations grew intensively with that came luxury, fame and fortune. The filming production exemplified those three things. Film directors were obsessed with the exotic party lifestyle drug trafficking brought to the United States.The entertainment business went from very little to people constructing glamorous housing, monuments, and cities. Pablo Escobar, Carlos Lehder, and Griselda Blanco all contributed to the increase of violence in Florida. The atmosphere was changed to the glamourous settings and the fast money that was able to be made.The mass killings was and amount of drugs seized shocked the United States and ultimately changed Florida during the 1970s and