The Castro Connection- How Cuban Refugees Dominate The Florida Drug Trade | Documentary

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  • čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
  • #trap #crime #documentary #narcos
    Johnny interviews Apache, a Cuban-American drug trafficker who moved tons of kilos for the Colombians in the late 80's and early 90's. He tells Johnny about how he went from small-time hustler to major middleman, moving loads from Baranquilla, Colombia and finally-- on working with Raul Castro and the Cuban government to smuggle his product to Florida.
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    0:00- Intro
    0:57- Cubans made the bricks move
    01:39- The Mariel boat lift changed everything
    02:14- Meeting "Apache" in Little Havana
    3:45- Baranquilla was a key city in the cocaine trade
    05:05- Apache's first time moving a drug load
    06:01- Support our sponsor!
    07:11- Starting off small-time
    07:50- How he moved up in the trade
    09:15- The real money was made out of town
    10:55- Dominicans distributed all over the country
    12:43- Colombians have it, Cubans, bring it, Americans use it
    14:21- Tricking the Colombians for better prices
    16:30- The only sober drug trafficker
    16:55- Moving his own load straight from Colombia
    19:51- How Colombians dealt with mistakes
    21:03- Working with the Castro regime
    22:20- Refugees fund anti-Castro militias using drug money
    24:20- Roped into a RICO case
    27:02- Outro
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Komentáře • 132

  • @erichusayn
    @erichusayn Před rokem +41

    Dude, you are doing an excellent job documenting this era of the trade, tracking down the relatives of those involved, and I have not heard a single contradiction yet. Well done.

  • @ArtOfMoney1
    @ArtOfMoney1 Před rokem +12

    This man is smart for not getting high on his own supply. That’s why he went so far in the business.

  • @CdotForbes13
    @CdotForbes13 Před rokem +6

    love your story telling ability, your videos are always intriguing and informational

  • @dangerbeatz6770
    @dangerbeatz6770 Před rokem +6

    Good job Johnny!!
    You explaining while giving key parts of the interview is the way to do it

    • @Skunkhunt_42
      @Skunkhunt_42 Před rokem

      I think jonny is a clown but your right. This is a good method for sure. Hes clearly gonna be a bigger YT personality than he was a dealer...he's just better at entertainment than slangin drugs

  • @bradcarlson7828
    @bradcarlson7828 Před rokem +3

    I could listen to these stories all day

  • @johnnyvalentino8720
    @johnnyvalentino8720 Před rokem +6

    Apache just casually chilling telling these stories with a little chihuahua in his bag 😂😂

  • @akapiff
    @akapiff Před rokem +6

    This guy is a walking legend this is how u do it

    • @HebryNegga-wy4zr
      @HebryNegga-wy4zr Před 11 měsíci

      He is evil if u glorify these criminals your mom raised an idiot

  • @oof9952
    @oof9952 Před rokem +42

    What’s funny is I’m half Cuban and Colombian and kids used say that I was the Supplier and the mover (never understood why)and what’s really funny that my mamá came from Barranquilla

    • @yaggaprince
      @yaggaprince Před rokem +1

      Barranquilla had som major drug traffickers

    • @oof9952
      @oof9952 Před rokem +2

      @@yaggaprince yea my aunts told some stories from the late 80s and throughput the 90s Barranquilla was a different place vs Now but the history of the relations between Cali and Medellin were crazy

    • @yayoserrano4573
      @yayoserrano4573 Před rokem

      😂😂😂

    • @huhSHUA
      @huhSHUA Před rokem +1

      Oh wow that’s fucking hilarious. NOT. As a fellow 305 we don’t give a fuck

  • @tylermartini1480
    @tylermartini1480 Před rokem +3

    Keep up the good work bro 🎉🎉🎉

  • @williampierce4513
    @williampierce4513 Před rokem +1

    this is a legit documentary respect for what you do.🙏🏿

  • @jtunverzagt
    @jtunverzagt Před rokem

    Fascinating channel bro!

  • @BrandinoTheGod
    @BrandinoTheGod Před rokem +3

    Loving your channel bro. Just saw you for the first time on YMH. Immediately fkd with you and definitely subscribed! 💪💯

  • @customk9254
    @customk9254 Před rokem +1

    Very good documentary. Watching from South Florida.

  • @anthonyc5525
    @anthonyc5525 Před rokem +1

    Johnny Mitchell with the Lucky Peaks T, gotta love it.

  • @iyona9900
    @iyona9900 Před rokem +1

    This was really good

  • @robsgarage4746
    @robsgarage4746 Před rokem

    just subs! you have a great show/docu. i like seeing a slice of history; it's true and fascinating.

  • @dercioferreira6169
    @dercioferreira6169 Před rokem +10

    This reminds me of when my uncle used to push weight in early 90s I used to get best presents during Christmas and I was living in Portugal when I was a kid, then I remember when he went on the run and he sent a brand new Harley Davidson and no one in the island had one, as i got older I asked him about his dealer days he regrets it because in the end he got deported and can never live in USA again and it tears him apart, he said one time he bought a brand new mustang and totaled it and went out and bought another one the next day, he said he loved his Porsche and his corvette the best tho

    • @omarabujellban4457
      @omarabujellban4457 Před rokem

      Oh sorry to hear that. But if ur uncle just waited till he get the green card, it could went a little bit much better for him

    • @Anotherdaynparadise
      @Anotherdaynparadise Před rokem +1

      I saw that movie too! Hell yeah...

  • @dinerodylan4100
    @dinerodylan4100 Před rokem

    Who needs Netflix I got Jonny Mitchel and the connect. 💯

  • @RalphMantuanoTwinStarMedium

    THANKS NEW SUB

  • @edx108
    @edx108 Před rokem

    Bruh we need more CONTENT!!!

  • @boxingfan5742
    @boxingfan5742 Před rokem +5

    What a trip! I went to high school with Apache. Dude was definitely an (maybe THE) apex bad ass mofo, even back then.
    I was mid level in the game myself in high school but had no idea he was in it. He came to my school from a neighborhood just slightly outside mine (presumably, based on the gang that I heard he'd been with). So, we didn't really hang together, but he was a always a cool person.

  • @streetwiseguitar5113
    @streetwiseguitar5113 Před rokem +3

    23:18 you say the, "Mario Boatlift!" 😂Better research that one.

    • @clippzzorito1420
      @clippzzorito1420 Před rokem

      Sure he says the Maria boat lift an abbreviated version.

  • @frankal85
    @frankal85 Před rokem +2

    Jorge Valdes is another Miami Cuban GOAT.

  • @georgepapatheofilou6118
    @georgepapatheofilou6118 Před rokem +4

    Kudos to Brian De Palma for making a film on your subject matter .

  • @yrnx9334
    @yrnx9334 Před rokem +5

    My country 🇧🇸had a big part to play in the cocaine boom of the 80s

    • @cripbk2147
      @cripbk2147 Před rokem

      The Cubans in the Bahamas were the ones in charge.

    • @HebryNegga-wy4zr
      @HebryNegga-wy4zr Před 11 měsíci

      Nothing to brag about your shit country doing illegal and evil things

  • @jlcmarble8722
    @jlcmarble8722 Před rokem +1

    Incredible...
    This guy is from a city next to where i was born (ranchuelo)
    Now im in Naples
    Small Word

  • @boeitnie1185
    @boeitnie1185 Před rokem

    what a great episode you can't make this sht up great job

  • @Blackbypopulardemand305
    @Blackbypopulardemand305 Před rokem +2

    I want to meet this dude maaaaan great stories

  • @juanescalante9972
    @juanescalante9972 Před rokem

    Damm that's a wild story guy is the real o.g.

  • @taylybetzabemalpartidarubi7939

    He look like steve bauer, rocky echeverria

  • @antonioallen440
    @antonioallen440 Před rokem +1

    🔥🔥🔥

  • @ggs7747
    @ggs7747 Před rokem +2

    We Cuban's do it the best baby 😂😂

    • @HebryNegga-wy4zr
      @HebryNegga-wy4zr Před 11 měsíci

      Nothing to brag about doing illegal things - nothing to be proud of - go fix your shit hole country it's in troubles

  • @samsham8218
    @samsham8218 Před rokem +2

    I'd love to hear an interview (anonymous of course)with a high level drug dealer who made there money, never got caught, and made it out.

  • @anthonymorales2499
    @anthonymorales2499 Před rokem

    Could you talk about Rafael Caro qintero

  • @boeitnie1185
    @boeitnie1185 Před rokem

    yeah that is true if you start at the bottom in the drug trade you learn all the little tricks like that the guys at the top don't realy deal w those kinda problems

  • @dondada4437
    @dondada4437 Před rokem +1

    Can u do an interview with Nicaragua trafficers

  • @bbb1081703
    @bbb1081703 Před rokem +7

    I don't believe he lost EVERYTHING 😅

  • @davidadamkess8129
    @davidadamkess8129 Před rokem +1

    Still not in Wikipedia. Wikimedia or wikidata.

  • @GbawlZ
    @GbawlZ Před rokem +2

    I want a dog like that that lets me hold him in my palm for 5 hours without fussing.

  • @dgrbcreations
    @dgrbcreations Před rokem

    Just some real talk here Johnny; your content is great but just be careful not to fly too close to the sun.

  • @ivand9610
    @ivand9610 Před rokem

    Do Puerto Rico like coquito Lopez angel millones El buster, reggaeton and Spanish rap was started as a drug front

  • @richard09able
    @richard09able Před rokem +1

    So the federales seized all his stuff and he did 11 years in federal. Can they really take all your $$$ and property?

  • @osminbarrios8581
    @osminbarrios8581 Před rokem

    Did Apache ever meet Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta?

  • @Guafarina
    @Guafarina Před 8 měsíci

    Bro this dude look exactly like Steven Bauer 😂

  • @frissonsteemit2318
    @frissonsteemit2318 Před rokem +2

    can you do a special about the Cartel Donkey shows?

  • @markusaurelius1828
    @markusaurelius1828 Před rokem

    Shout out BHAM

  • @lucyburgoyne4650
    @lucyburgoyne4650 Před rokem

    I know you probably don't want to give them the attention but are you going to address the videos saying that you've lied about your past?

  • @DTRIPLESOWKOW
    @DTRIPLESOWKOW Před rokem

    Elder the Apache. I know the guy.

  • @massappeal6649
    @massappeal6649 Před rokem +1

    Try to connect with Carlos leder

  • @VikCalo
    @VikCalo Před rokem

    This guy has that Miami accent

  • @juangarbey9252
    @juangarbey9252 Před rokem

    👍🇨🇺🇨🇺

  • @eddieohh6627
    @eddieohh6627 Před rokem

    This guy seems like he’s about business

  • @user-un9tg6sx5s
    @user-un9tg6sx5s Před rokem +1

    Why so short? Couldn’t been hours long man

    • @ZiggzMcGee
      @ZiggzMcGee Před rokem

      This is just a clip. the actual long one is on his channel.

  • @huhSHUA
    @huhSHUA Před rokem +2

    The anti Castro “military” doesn’t exist any more. That was in the 80’s and 90’s. I would run into them a few times as a kid when i was shooting in the Everglades. The Everglades has pretty much been off limits ever since the flooded it in the mid 2000’s

  • @jlcmarble8722
    @jlcmarble8722 Před rokem

    Which would have longer...

  • @ANTPHRESSH89
    @ANTPHRESSH89 Před rokem

    My Father used to deal with the Colombians

  • @Allaces305
    @Allaces305 Před rokem +1

    Alpha 66

  • @Oldjongcrow416
    @Oldjongcrow416 Před rokem +1

    🔥👈

  • @bigdrizz_nycnyc4098
    @bigdrizz_nycnyc4098 Před rokem +1

    😈

  • @tootydeltoro7491
    @tootydeltoro7491 Před 8 měsíci

    what is his real name? has he written any books?

  • @alphaeligon9226
    @alphaeligon9226 Před rokem

    🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳🤯😳

  • @user-nv7kr1ih5z
    @user-nv7kr1ih5z Před 3 měsíci

    Ok finally someone legit he a real dealer lol 😂

  • @robdawg88IROC-Z
    @robdawg88IROC-Z Před rokem +2

    Bring the F men back already

  • @felixhernandez9760
    @felixhernandez9760 Před 8 měsíci

    Jesus, what’s Apaches name ? Why isn’t it on the bio 💁‍♂️

  • @Rays_Bad_Decisions
    @Rays_Bad_Decisions Před rokem

    Just so I totally understand he got 11 years in fed time because his alias was in a ledger with a number????

  • @ArthurMorgan-rdr2gta
    @ArthurMorgan-rdr2gta Před rokem +1

    ey, soy cubano, es bueno saberlo que mi gente es vendedor de los drogas, no sólo los colombianos

  • @lougreen6218
    @lougreen6218 Před rokem +1

    Real life luluu for paid in full

  • @leftjab6145
    @leftjab6145 Před 10 měsíci

    I feel like these guys are full of BS. All of them knew Pablo all of their dads were badass making them badass. Idk they just seem like they glamorize the life and are just making themselves bigger than they are

  • @pierodavila7621
    @pierodavila7621 Před rokem

    Dominicans in Montgomery Alabama? No fucking way!! Lol

    • @markanthonyparks7787
      @markanthonyparks7787 Před 4 měsíci

      I’m from Montgomery al and I know on of them he’s broke now been to prison and bck now but he’s broke but he had trash bags of money long ago

  • @senorgringopapi2059
    @senorgringopapi2059 Před rokem +1

    Coca cowboys

  • @maryjoymary9433
    @maryjoymary9433 Před rokem

    I dont believe these guys. Every dealer exaggerated there moves and success

  • @kgSoloMan5k
    @kgSoloMan5k Před rokem +1

    Homie looks like Don Eladio from Breaking Bad.

    • @clippzzorito1420
      @clippzzorito1420 Před rokem +1

      Who was in scar face he played Angel lol that would have been a closer link to the story in question.

    • @kgSoloMan5k
      @kgSoloMan5k Před rokem

      @@clippzzorito1420 angel was much younger than eladio, so the comparison to eladio fits better. 🙏🏼

    • @nocapbussin
      @nocapbussin Před rokem

      ​@@clippzzorito1420 Manolo, not Angel

  • @RafaelManUtd23
    @RafaelManUtd23 Před rokem

    How u talking about meeting escobar this and that then u filming a CZcams video with a chihuahua and a men purse. Plus if u about it, you dont talk about. Just saying, I could be wrong 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @rudycastillo
    @rudycastillo Před rokem +1

    The gentleman you interviewed in Miami Apache is a liar, everything he told you in that interview is a lie I know him

    • @OloRishaCreole504
      @OloRishaCreole504 Před rokem

      Damn..smh lol...was he ever dealing or just made it all up?

    • @markanthonyparks7787
      @markanthonyparks7787 Před 4 měsíci

      Idk bro bc I’m from Montgomery al and the personally know a Dominican who had work in the 90s he went to prison and is out now but he’s broke working now

  • @lwdhmrcy
    @lwdhmrcy Před rokem +2

    Where are the Black Cubans

    • @dondada4437
      @dondada4437 Před rokem +3

      Nows not the time for pulling race card g

    • @cripbk2147
      @cripbk2147 Před rokem +3

      Lmao the smart ones were the white Cubans

    • @juliostevens9480
      @juliostevens9480 Před rokem +1

      Still in Cuba but they’re coming

    • @williamcooper9379
      @williamcooper9379 Před rokem +1

      Probably easier has a white Cubano to get into middle class and up communities to work if you see him without his accents you just think he was a blue blood or italian vs a brown or Indio or black Cuban just saying marketing purposes also 1980s was still semi segregated in Miami communities rich areas

    • @zarario4444
      @zarario4444 Před 5 měsíci

      Black Cubans are not involved in the drug trade.

  • @nagomizik9358
    @nagomizik9358 Před rokem +3

    Dude spits out such a fake vibe!!🧐

    • @danielskyberg
      @danielskyberg Před rokem

      Hes biggest fraud ever on CZcams you see right thru him how he carry himself hes a nobody and never been anything else then a driver for some local dealers for a few pounds of weed now he play and act talk shit cartel this and that. 1 brick in Europe is 60k + LMFAO more like 20k AT TOP

  • @annabrown9843
    @annabrown9843 Před rokem +1

    All his videos are fake guys

  • @AllinLogisticsLLC
    @AllinLogisticsLLC Před rokem

    Legend . 🫡

  • @thelittleguy9132
    @thelittleguy9132 Před rokem +2

    Lmao. This guy Johnny Mitchell has turned a half Oz of weed bust he got. into a million dollar trafficking lie

    • @kokokat584
      @kokokat584 Před rokem +1

      Jealous?

    • @thelittleguy9132
      @thelittleguy9132 Před rokem

      @Koko Kat ur absolutely right. I hate but I applaud it. He is a lier though. The guy couldn't get 10 views with his comedy act. And gets beat up at his own show.

  • @douglassamuel3943
    @douglassamuel3943 Před rokem +2

    Amazing content, Real heavyweights , Nothing less.🫡👆💥💫🏆🙏💯💰✨️