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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
How To Use narco-state In A Sentence
- People were murdered with impunity and worse than this, it became a narco-state.
- What this war has achieved is to restore a compliant narco-state, headed by a US appointed puppet.
- I am now living in one of the busiest narco-states in the world.
- Under him, the country visibly turned into a narco-state with organised criminal gangs.
- this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day
- These horrible acts of violence must be understood within the context of an increasingly vile and murderous narco-state.
- The island has become a narco-state and the people living there are not seeing it.
- It's now labeled a narco-state in which drug lords and traffickers control both the economy and law enforcement.
- But the new slew of charges helped shed light on an impoverished country, which international observers say has long been a narco-state.
- There is a real danger that if the battles with gangs in the region aren't won, these countries could become narco-states.
