Miami: A World of all Excess Part of the Series: The Most Dangerous Cities
Miami is a huge city undergoing an explosion: an explosion of drug trafficking (Miami is the American capital of cocaine) and a demographic explosion, with large numbers of Latin American immigrants. Since 2005 the city has experienced its greatest real estate boom since the 20's. Miami: an explosive cocktail where extreme wealth meets extreme poverty.
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2012
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