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narco-state

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Noun1.narco-state - an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent; "this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day"
geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth
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In recent years Guinea-Bissau has achieved notoriety as a transit point for the cocaine trade between South America and Europe, raising fears it could become a narco-state.
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Add a collapsing global economy to a losing war with drug cartels, and Mexico is at grave risk of becoming a failed state, a narco-state with a 2,000-mile border with the United States.
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Also missing from Vienna was a discussion about increased numbers of destabilized countries becoming narco-states.
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