[dramatic music building]
REPORTER: This small American group
includes a teacher, a nurse, a recording
engineer, and a photographer.
10 years ago they might have stuck to smoking marijuana.
But now they pass around the lines on the mirror.
MAN: Save some for the rest of us.
[laughter]
His structure is based on two foundations.
One is extreme violence and the other is business
and logistical organization.
His capacity for violence, his ambition and his smarts
single him out.
And no one actually ever challenges
Escobar's leadership.
Planes would leave the jungle drug laboratories,
laden with cocaine, and begin to fly
northwards and hopscotch across the Caribbean
before it hit US shores.
CARLTON TURNER: And that was all coming in to Miami.
So Miami was a distribution point.
And Miami became a hotbed of corruption, of the cartels.