Tag: banks

  • Cocaine Cowboys

    Cocaine Cowboys. How the drugs transformed Miami into something that looks a lot like Panama today. “All these banks”, says one of the protagonists (which also tells you all you need to know about people like Eisenmann getting into shady banking in Miami in the eighties). “All this construction”, says another.

  • US State Department hooked on gramophone needles

    Is it some sort of wacky hobby then, of the fine people of US State, to repeat themselves in voluminous reports every year and push policies that demonstrably have no effect in reducing the drug trade and money laundering? Is it, maybe, an addiction?