Horrifyingly tidy and efficient, when you think about it, everything neatly signed into law, protected by US occupation forces surge, extracted at just those royalties necessary to keep the national government, army and militia in power, and leave the Afghan people in thirty years just another destitute, resource-stripped, smoking moonscape, narcostate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
No US Citizen in their right mind wants to work in that narcostate. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The outcome matters for the United States as well if the drug cartels succeed, the United States will share a 2,000-mile border with a narcostate controlled by powerful transnational drug cartels that threaten the stability of Central and South America. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That made sense: Santos played a key role in Uribe's brass-knuckle security policy, which transformed Colombia from a guerrilla-infested narcostate into a stable, prospering democracy. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Karzai government has yet to show any progress in providing good governance and bringing down corruption, and Afghanistan has virtually become a narcostate. ❋ Zahid Hussain (2010)
Most notably, Colombia went from a failed narcostate to a solid, stable, and growing nation in just 15 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)
An expanding an increasingly violent "war on drugs" threatens to convert Mexico into a narcostate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mexico approaches this election confronting the rise of a narcostate, growing economic chaos, social inequalities, citizen disenchantment -- or worse ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is a possibility, remote as it may be, but there is a possibility of becoming a narcostate. ❋ Unknown (2009)
IRIN: Guinea-Bissau: Fears of an emerging narcostate ❋ Unknown (2009)
International observers fear that it risks developing into a “narcostate” if it cannot adequately police its shores. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Promoted to Headline (H3) on 7/4/09: A Nation on the Brink - Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'A Nation on the Brink - Mexico\'s July 5 Legislative Elections '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Mexico approaches this election confronting the rise of a narcostate, growing economic chaos, social inequalities, citizen disenchantment -- or worse ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Guinea-Bissau's role as a narcostate, began to receive telephone threats. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On top of Mexico collapsing into a narcostate and spreading chaos into the US from the Border McCain and Obama deep down want open and unguarded? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
Promised infrastructure building was slight allowing Afghanistan to morph into a narcostate providing money for the terrorists. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The possibility that Afghanistan could emerge as a Colombia-style narcostate, dominated by competing warlords and drug cartels, is what Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, Abdullah Abdullah, described to me as "the biggest danger and threat to stability." ❋ Unknown (2004)
Promised nation building was slight allowing it to morph into a narcostate. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Osama bin Laden may be dead and his fraying al-Qaeda network dispersed to other lands, but when the Americans leave, the country could easily revert to the failed narcostate and terrorist training ground that it once was. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The U.S. invasion also deters drug barons from turning Haiti into a fully fledged narcostate via political intermediaries. ❋ Unknown (2010)
