Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 871 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 1980s Miami, amid the glitz, gunfire, and power boats, two Cuban-American friends Sal Magluta and Willy Falcon, built one of the most powerful drug empires in U.S. history. Known as Los Muchachos, they moved mountains of cocaine through a city shaped by Cuban exiles, ambition, and an underworld that blurred the line between loyalty and lawlessness. From funding anti-Castro revolutionaries to working with both the Medellin and Cali Cartel, this is the story of how they rose, ruled, and ran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	It's 1980 Miami.
1:02.0	So you already know.
1:04.0	Los Mucachos are riding high.
1:06.0	The group of big-time drug traffickers led by 20-something Cuban exiles, Willie Falcone, and Sal Magluda,
1:12.5	have arrived on South Florida's Coke scene in a big way, and they are making money hand over fist.
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