narco-state

"We've been called a narco-state, but consumers, they are narcos too," said Mr Colom.

BBC News - Home 2011

"We've been called a narco-state, but consumers, they are narcos, too," Colom told the BBC last week.

The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post William Booth 2011

Its theme: Just Say No. It seems that the Harper government, with Liberal support, is poised to ratify a free trade agreement between Canada and the murderous narco-state of Columbia.

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And though news from that war remains remarkably grim, were we by some miracle to win, for hundreds of billions of dollars we would have gained tenuous control over the fifth poorest, second most corrupt, and premier narco-state on the planet.

Tom Engelhardt: Cutting $100 Billion?... Easy -- If Only Washington Had a Brain Tom Engelhardt 2011

The Zetas: gangster kings of their own brutal narco-state

US agent killed in Mexico attack 2011

The Kuomintang mercenaries, however, proved to be far more successful setting up their own narco-state in southeast Burma, plundering local villagers and smuggling out opium by the ton.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

If you replace the Taliban with the Northern Alliance, you have a narco-state.

Matthew Yglesias » Experts Call for Lowered Expectations in Afghanistan 2009

The Kuomintang mercenaries, however, proved to be far more successful setting up their own narco-state in southeast Burma, plundering local villagers and smuggling out opium by the ton.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

He wants us to expend billions more dollars and more US lives to … exchange the Taliban for a narco-state run by the Northern Alliance.

Matthew Yglesias » America Needs More Realistic Aspirations in Afghanistan 2009

Perhaps it’s fitting that Afghanistan, the country we helped turn into the planet’s leading narco-state, has given us a 30-year high from hell.

Tom Engelhardt: The Urge to Surge: Washington's 30-Year High Tom Engelhardt 2011