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Javier Peña did indeed have to fly to Miami during the days in which Escobar was killed, but it wasn't to be investigated for his involvement with Los Pepes. As mentioned before, Peña represents all of the corrupt officers that aided them. Peña flew to Miami on a tip that Escobar had fled to the Magic City so he was there with intentions of hunting him down. But soon after the news of Escobar's death, the focus was shifted towards an even more powerful monster: the Cali Cartel.

Escobar's shrinking cartel did nothing for the importation of drugs into Miami. The Cali Cartel swooped in and took the Miami business to new heights with a more careful operation. They once found 15,000 pounds of coke in a container packed with frozen broccoli. That's one way to get people to eat their veggies! Authorities also say that at one point, 80% of the cocaine in the United States was being provided by Cali through Miami.

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The money made from cocaine in the 80s and early 90s was unbelievable. Refining a kilo of coke cost about $1,000 and about $4000 to smuggle into Miami. But the street value of a kilo in the Magic City was anywhere between $50 to $70,000. That's as astonishing 1000% profit margin. Murphy and Peña say they were bringing in five to seven shipments a day of 500 kilos each. So yea the money was stacking up so high that they had to find creative ways of getting it back to Escobar or Cali when they decided to swoop in and take the business right underneath his nose.

Tata's brother was Carlos Arturo Henao Vallejo. He was secretly involved in the smuggling of drugs to Miami, but it is unclear whether he was actually living there. Pablo flew him in to see his sister to calm her down in the midst of this turmoil. Well, at least he tried. Things got kind of complicated, as you'll soon find out.

In the early 80s, the street value of a kilo of cocaine in Miami was $50,000.

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The Cali Cartel was quite the opposite of the Medellin Cartel as shown in this clip. They were sophisticated instead of flashy and flew under the radar. It was clear by the territories they operated in. Medellin had Miami and Cali had New York. They had politicians and cops on the payroll allowing them to operate more freely. At the height of their power they had control of 90% of the world’s cocaine.