REPORTER: This small American group

includes a teacher, a nurse, a recording

engineer, and a photographer.

10 years ago they might have stuck to smoking marijuana.

But now they pass around the lines on the mirror.

MAN: Save some for the rest of us.

[laughter]

His structure is based on two foundations.

One is extreme violence and the other is business

and logistical organization.

His capacity for violence, his ambition and his smarts

single him out.

And no one actually ever challenges

Escobar's leadership.

Planes would leave the jungle drug laboratories,

laden with cocaine, and begin to fly

northwards and hopscotch across the Caribbean

before it hit US shores.

CARLTON TURNER: And that was all coming in to Miami.

So Miami was a distribution point.

And Miami became a hotbed of corruption, of the cartels.