The 1979 Miami “Dadeland Massacre” definitively confirmed the presence of a deep-rooted Columbians led drug cartels operating in Florida. Furthermore, those drug dealers disregarded the U.S Government “war on drugs” declaration of 1971, pioneered by the former President Richard Nixon. Indeed, this mass murder orchestrated by the legendary “cocaine cowboys” appeared as a powerful warning message Griselda Blanco, also known as “Godmother of cocaine”, wanted to reiterate to her competition. So, when Ronald Reagan accessed to the White House, he altered the fight against the drug traffic by allowing not only the incarceration of the alleged dealers, but also going after the disruption of their financial and transport networks by passing the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. Thus, the Munday-Coley Organization, which formally established as a business performing phony vacation flights, but in reality executed the clandestine transport of the Medellin cartel drugs to Miami between 1982 and 1986, automatically became the target of the South Florida Drug Task Force. Finally, the outcome after busting the air smuggling estimated the amount of products delivered to 60,000 pounds of cocaine during four years with a total of 30 people indicted (Bearak & Nones, 1987). Beside the …show more content…
Indeed, Operation Cashweb initiated in 1984 in the Dade County resulted in the detention of eight individuals in South Florida and around 40 additional suspects nationwide, according to the FBI, which infiltrated the three main cocaine and money-laundering families from Columbia. Furthermore, $21.5 million of the approximated $200 million seized, laundered through undercover companies in Miami, New Haven, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Newark and New York City (Krause,