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Italian-American Mafia criminal organizations in the city are nicknamed the Miami Mafia. In the 20th century, Mafia bosses agreed to share South Florida as a territory open to all crime families, with the exception of the pornography racket, over which the Gambino family held a monopoly. [1] Criminal organizations known to operate in Miami include:
While there already was a largely successful Cuban immigration to the United States before the 1980s, the third and most well-known wave of Cuban immigration was in 1980. The Cuban government permitted approximately 125,000 Cubans to board a decrepit fleet of boats in Mariel Harbor.
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The Miami Mafia is a disparaging caricature of Cuban exile politics created by Cuban officials. The notion considers Cuban exiles to be unilaterally politically organized in a feverish effort to overthrow the Cuban government. The label "Miami Mafia" can be used to refer to most or absolutely all of the political activity of Cuban exiles.
A 23-year-old Miami gang member could spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty this week of fatally shooting someone who drove by his house and of firing shots at an ...
The Miami drug war was a series of armed conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s, centered in the city of Miami, Florida, between the United States government and multiple drug cartels, primarily the Medellín Cartel.
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