On June 16, it debuted on the MGM+ streaming platform. Cocaine Hotelan eight-episode series that will tell various events related to the drug world in Miami several decades ago.
This audiovisual, according to FilmAffinity, tells the story of Roman Compte (played by Danny Pino), a Cuban who goes into exile in the United States and there becomes general director of the Mutiny Hotel, a place that will establish itself as a kind of headquarters of the « Miami cocaine scene of the late 70s and early 80s.
This portal states that “businessmen, politicians, international drug traffickers, CIA and FBI agents, models, sports stars and musicians” meet there, who are regular clients of the hotel and several of them rub shoulders with the Antillean entrepreneur.
In the middle of this pleiad is Néstor Cabal (Yul Vázquez), Compte’s brother, who is the biggest drug lord in the southern state. The DEA (United States Drug Enforcement Administration) will offer the protagonist to infiltrate the ranks of his relative and he must assume that mission in exchange for protecting his family. This will then trigger some of the main plots in the fiction created by Chris Brancato, the same one behind the successful Narcos.
This production marks the return to the screens of Cuban Vázquez, one of the most common Latin actors in the North American entertainment industry. One of his last jobs had been White House Plumbersabout which we talked to you here, where he shared with his compatriot Alexis Valdés.
In this work he put himself in the shoes of Bernard “Macho” Barker, who belonged to Batista’s secret police, then to the CIA and was one of the plumbers who accessed the headquarters of the National Committee of the Democratic Party to steal documents and install microphones. This story is the basis of the famous “Watergate Scandal.”
As we told you previously, last year he also participated in Godfather of Harleman acclaimed series starring Forest Whitaker, in which he defended a mafia leader.
“José Miguel Battle is a real character, a Cuban who was a police officer on the Island, left there for the United States and returned to Cuba for the Bay of Pigs with brigade 2506. My uncle Ramón was in that invasion with him. I had known who he was for a long time. In 2018 a book about his story came out, called The corporation, which is incredible. When the opportunity to play this man came up, I said yes immediately,” Yul commented in an interview.
Yul, born in Cuba in 1965, arrived in the United States six years later with his family. You can learn more about his long career in the following work:
Yul Vázquez and the path that led him to be “the US’s favorite Cuban actor”
