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- noun A
country that is heavily involved in thetrafficking or production of illegal drugs
Etymologies
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Examples
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Horrifyingly tidy and efficient, when you think about it, everything neatly signed into law, protected by US occupation forces surge, extracted at just those royalties necessary to keep the national government, army and militia in power, and leave the Afghan people in thirty years just another destitute, resource-stripped, smoking moonscape, narcostate.
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No US Citizen in their right mind wants to work in that narcostate.
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The outcome matters for the United States as well if the drug cartels succeed, the United States will share a 2,000-mile border with a narcostate controlled by powerful transnational drug cartels that threaten the stability of Central and South America.
Notable 2010
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That made sense: Santos played a key role in Uribe's brass-knuckle security policy, which transformed Colombia from a guerrilla-infested narcostate into a stable, prospering democracy.
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The Karzai government has yet to show any progress in providing good governance and bringing down corruption, and Afghanistan has virtually become a narcostate.
The Scorpion’s Tail Zahid Hussain 2010
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Most notably, Colombia went from a failed narcostate to a solid, stable, and growing nation in just 15 years.
The Long Game 2010
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An expanding an increasingly violent "war on drugs" threatens to convert Mexico into a narcostate.
A Nation on the Brink - Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections 2009
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Mexico approaches this election confronting the rise of a narcostate, growing economic chaos, social inequalities, citizen disenchantment -- or worse
A Nation on the Brink - Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections 2009
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There is a possibility, remote as it may be, but there is a possibility of becoming a narcostate.
The Mexican Problem 2009
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A Nation on the Brink - Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections 2009
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