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.