narco-state

"The threat is definitely there that the country will become a narco-state," he said in an interview.

Many observers fear that Guatemala may be turning into a narco-state.

"They are probably the worst narco-state that's out there on the continent," he said.

The headlines have reduced Mexico to a narco-state on its way to becoming a failed state.

Exactly what the Obama administration intends to do about that, and how it might break the narco-state, has yet to be articulated.

Perhaps it’s fitting that Afghanistan, the country we helped turn into the planet’s leading narco-state, has given us a 30-year high from hell.

"The fear that Afghanistan might degenerate into a narco-state is becoming a reality."

The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state".

They want to make Colombia into a narco-state, so they can handle their business more easily.

Naturally, Western leaders cannot impose an alternative placeman to sort out his narco-state.

They must work harder, smarter and more cooperatively to rescue this narco-state.

One of his allies in the legislature went so far as to dub Holland a "narco-state."

Hillary Clinton has called his country a "narco-state".

For example, in Afghanistan a narco-state now exists.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described his administration as a "narco-state."

If they do not get corruption sorted they can slip into being a narco-state,"."

But despite the gains, Afghanistan will remain a narco-state for the foreseeable future, partly because the country’s own drugs problem is getting worse.

It's a violent country once dubbed a "narco-state" by a US congressman.

Central America became one large, extended narco-state.

But the government cannot allow Honduras to become a narco-state, with a narco-government and a narco-police force.

Opium is the easy answer and along with it warlords and fears of a narco-state.

The country could become a narco-state.

It might appear that these are all the symptoms of a failing "narco-state" where the drug money is more powerful than the rule of law.

Some analysts are warning that Mexico is on the verge of becoming a "narco-state" like 1990s-era Colombia.

These elections matter, he adds, as the emergence of a narco-state would be a disaster in fragile West Africa.