Narco-capitalism (derivatives: narco-state, narco-economy) 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.

Examples

• (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,.

See also

• War on Drugs
• Opium War

Notes

External links

• The Economics of Cocaine Capitalism