narco-state
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- noun
- /ˈnɑrkoʊ steɪt/
- NSFW
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narco-estado
- To our south, communism is on the march once again, and there is an active failed narco-state on our border, armed with the weapons that the Muslim and his racist A.G. have given them.
- become a narco-state
So countries like Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, these countries are now narco states.
- So countries like Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone, these countries are now narco states.
- And so Mexico daily weekly creeps closer to becoming a full on narco state where the cartels really have that say.
- And it's basically turned into a narco state where they're just, they're just bringing this shit at will.
Examples
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As drug cartels gain more power, Mexico increasingly resembles a narco-state, undermining public trust in government.
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Many people believe that the rampant corruption in Afghanistan makes it a prime example of a narco-state.
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Mexico is pretty much a narco-state now.
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Lebanon was a narco-state and a failed state all in one.
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And so Mexico daily weekly creeps closer to becoming a full on narco state where the cartels really have that say.
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That the Bundeswehr continues to occupy Serbian territory, despite the clear evidence that it is supporting a criminal narco-state?
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The authors describe Tajikistan as effectively having become a "narco-state," where drug traffickers are integrated with political office.
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In a three-hour message, he explained that he could not go into detail about his victimization during the 42 days of silence "because there is no security that what happened to me will not happen again and I cannot put my family at risk" but he did refer to a "forced disappearance" caused by Mexico being "a failed narco-state."
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The media-refracted view of Arizona and its neighbor to the south is cartoonish: a quasi-fascist police state perched above a failing narco state.
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Law enforcement agencies struggle to operate effectively in a country that has been labeled a narco-state due to cartel influence.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Narco-state combines the prefix narco-, from narcotics meaning 'drugs', and state, meaning 'a country or government', so it literally means a country linked to illegal drugs. That's why a narco-state is a place where drug cartels control or strongly influence the government.