This week we offer more tales linking Miami's past to its future, from memories of former big-time drug trafficker Jon Roberts to a young contemporary dealer who moves more modest amounts of cocaine through local streets. Explore the topography of the Eighties with our handy map of notorious shootouts and drug-dealer homes. Follow the price of a kilo over the years as well as the evolution of coke fashion.
Also presented in these pages are some casualty reports: prominent locals busted for drugs, a 25-year body count, and Miami's rehab industry. Plus don't miss reflections by former law enforcers and that ever-popular Miami pastime: trying to nail Fidel Castro as a major smuggler.
Want to know what it was really like to live through the Eighties in Miami? Carlos Suarez De Jesus synthesizes it through a memoir of his stint as a houseman at the legendary Mutiny Hotel, his coke-fueled wedding, and not least, delivering cocaine all over town in an ambulance.