n 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
But statements from people who have fled the North and an array of circumstantial evidence paints a more likely picture: the North is a narco-state in which all aspects of the .
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described Karzai's administration as a "narco-state.
In the mean time, Southeast Asia's largest narco-state continues to thrive.
Crooked Mexican mayor gets 11 years for money laundering A crooked former Mexican governor was sentenced today to 11 years in the slammer for using American banks to launder $17 million in bribes he pocketed through a stunning corruption scheme that turned his territory into a “virtual narco-state.” Mario Villaneuva helped the notorious Juarez drug cartel funnel massive amounts...
June 29, 2013 - New York Post
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Washington Post It is time for some new thinking to ensure that Afghanistan does not fall into a failed narco-state status and become, once again, a safe haven for al-Qaida,wrote Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the top Republican on the House Foreign...
Barry McCaffrey in Earthtimes (press release) McCaffrey calls that "a drop in the bucket compared to what was spent in Iraq and Afghanistan ( $700 billion to date). We cannot afford to have a narco-state as a neighbor."
Richard Holbrooke in Reuters Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said last year (when he was not in government service) that "breaking the narco-state in Afghanistan is essential or all else will fail."