Port Of Miami Business Case Study

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s the drug business was one of the most profitable business, especially in Miami, Florida. The reason is because most of the drug traffickers reside in the Miami, Florida to keep an eye on their organization. Since the Port of Miami, Florida wasn’t secured with US Marshall nor US Coast Guards so, it was easy to smuggle in drugs like marijuana, cocaine and even immigrants from countries that didn’t want their people any more. As of today Port of Miami, Florida is the second economical, functional port that is revenue at 2.8 billion dollars a year, and created over two-hundred thousand jobs in South Florida ("Port Miami - Miami-Dade County," n.d.). The drugs people was smuggling was from Colombia. Colombia
Once she understood the business Blanco and her second husband to decide to move to New York, to live the American Dream. By 1970 Blanco and Bravo became the power couple. It is estimated that within months of being in the United States they was already millionaires with Colombia cocaine. They even control the mafia families, blacks, and other families was running a drug organization. Blanco and Bravo operations was so successful that they was moving a ton of cocaine every two to three weeks. To understand how powerful Blanco was becoming, she started off with $26,000 in her savings account and within a year she reached the dollar amount of 10 million
Blanco made a name for herself immediately. She ruled the organization with an iron fist. She lived by the motto “If I owe you money then you are going to get killed and if you owe me money then you are going to get killed.” By living with the motto the city of Miami was averaging over two hundreds murders a month due to drug relate (Netflix, 2008). It’s believed that Blanco didn’t have a heart so she killed women and children. Blanco even had a niece of the powerful family, the Ochoas of the Medellin cartel, in Colombia killed because she didn’t want pay her (Netflix, 2005). During this time is where Blanco met her third husband, Dario Sepulveda. They one son together. After being together for several years they decided to break up but Sepulveda wanted full custody of their son but Blanco said no and had him killed. It is believed this was the beginning of Blanco demise. After she killed her third husband, kingpins such as Pablo Escobar and many others wanted her died and they was willingly to pay generous amount of over $400 million