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'Narco-capitalism' (derivatives: 'narco-state', 'narco-economy') is a neologism and pejorative meant to express criticism of a state's policies and practices surrounding the international illegal drugs 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.

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Examples

★ (2002). Title of an online essay: "The Narco-State Cometh"^[1]

★ (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,"^[2].

See also

★ Illegal drug trade

★ War on Drugs

★ Opium War

Notes

1. "The Narco-State Cometh", Kuro5hin Wed Mar 20, 2002.
2. "Afghan opium cultivation hits a record", by Fisnik Abrashi, Associated Press Writer, Wed Aug 16, 2006.

External link

★ ''The Economics of Cocaine Capitalism''