Narco-capitalism

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 &mdash; thus, who uses the term, and in what context, is significant to understanding its intended meaning. Guinea-Bissau has been occasionally called a "narco-state" due to government officials often being bribed not to testify by drug lords in the country.