Hotel Scarface

Description:

In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. It was a hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday-- and an inspiration for the film, Scarface. Three waves of Cuban immigrants vied to dominate the trafficking, but as the kilos-- and bodies-- began to pile up, the Mutiny became target number one for law enforcement. Farzad examines a city high on excess and greed, and offers an unprecedented view of the rise and fall of cocaine-- and the Mutiny-- in Miami.

subjects: Drug dealers,  Drug traffic,  Case studies,  Social life and customs,  Hotels,  History,  Miami (fla.), social conditions,  Hotels, florida,  Miami (fla.), social life and customs,  Miami (fla.), history,  Manners and customs,  HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,  HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),  TRUE CRIME

Places: Miami,  Miami (Fla.),  Florida

Times: 20th century