His arrest facilitated the entry of Blanco into the popular imagination and exposed one of the most successful female drug traffickers. While I know that in S1 of Narcos and the end of S1 of Narcos Mexico, we were told that the DEA would go hard on the cartels, I think they actually showed what an … It’s known that a connect called Rafa was the Medellin cartel point man in the US and worked closely with Max Mermelstein for planning the logistics. Some known traffickers who worked with the Medellin cartel in Miami were Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday. On June 5, 1985, Miami police arrested Florida engineer Max Mermelstein on charges of smuggling cocaine.
If you want to know more about the impact of the smuggling in Miami you can watch the Documentary cocaine cowboys.
In the words of James P. Walsh, Los Angeles Federal Prosecutor, "Max Mermelstein was probably the single most valuable government witness in drug matters that this country has ever known."
Narcos is a Netflix original television series (2015–2017) that chronicles the life of Pablo Escobar and the rise of the Medellín Cartel.
Miami soon became known as the "Drug Capital of the World" due to ensuing turf wars between drug lords.
Medellin cartel traffickers Mickey Munday, Jon Roberts, Griselda Blanco and Max Mermelstein brought in loads of drugs from Colombia with the help of Jorge "Rivi" Ayala as a hitman responsible for around three dozen murders. Max Mermelstein, a high-level cartel distributor in Miami, later testified in court that he was shown the documentary a few days after it was broadcast and was told that the cartel wanted Seal either captured or killed: the price was $500,000 if Seal was killed, and $1,000,000 if he was captured alive. Unpopular opinion around here I guess, but Walt’s character arc in S2 was actually really well written imo. Max Mermelstein (November 1, 1942 – September 12, 2008) was a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the late 70's and early 80's, who later became a key informant against the organization. The first and the second season show his rise to the status of a powerful drug lord and finally his death. About his own life, Mermelstein told Frontline in 2005:
The role of Escobar is played by Brazilian actor Wagner Moura.