Cocaine Cowboys Know Best Places to Bank
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Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- To grow up in South Florida duringthe 1970s and 1980s, as I did, wasn’t your typical Americanchildhood experience. Back then the area was known as the mostdangerous place in the country.
Carnage from the drug wars filled the local news longbefore “Miami Vice” became a hit TV show. By elementaryschool, my friends and I knew some of the lingo. A Colombiannecktie wasn’t a piece of clothing, but a gruesome executionmethod. When I was 7 years old my barber was murdered in hisshop, apparently over a drug deal.