The Underworld Podcast
The Underworld Podcast
The Underworld Podcast
Los Muchachos: Miami's Cuban Cartel
57 minutes Posted Apr 22, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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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.

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