) is a pejorative neologism
meant to express criticism of a state's policies and practices surrounding the international illegal drug trade
. The terms narco-capitalism and narco-state currently have no formal definition in official use and are not in the Oxford English Dictionary
. It is a pejorative
term meant to criticize and express disfavor about a government's drug policies; no state calls itself a narco-state as a neutral descriptor - thus, who uses the term, and in what context, is significant to understanding its intended meaning.
- (2002). Title of an online essay: "The Narco-State Cometh
- (2006). An anonymous US official on Afghanistan: "Now what they have is a narco-economy. If they do not get corruption sorted they can slip into being a narco-state,.