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''[[Democracy Now!]]'' mooted [[Afghanistan]] as "The Worst Narco-State in History?" in 2014, a refernece to the increased havest of [[opium]] after the [[2001 Invasion of Afghanistan]].
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The phrase "'''Narco-state'''" is an exonym used to promote [[fear]].
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''[[Democracy Now!]]'' mooted [[Afghanistan]] as "The Worst Narco-State in History?" in 2014, a reference to the increased harvest of [[opium]] after the [[2001 Invasion of Afghanistan]].<ref>https://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/the_worst_narco_state_in_history</ref>
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The term is used by Western {{ccm}}, possibly to suggest national governments which will be targeted for "[[regime change]]". Recipients of this term include [[Peru]], [[Guinea Bissau]]<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/opinion/narco-states-africas-next-menace.html</ref><ref>http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2009/06/guinea_bissau_a.html</ref> and [[Mozambique]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/22/mozambique-africas-new-narco-state</ref>.
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The ''[[Guardian]]'' in 2018 reported that "The [[Netherlands]] is starting to resemble a narco-state with the police unable to combat the emergence of a parallel criminal economy, a report from the [[Dutch police]] association has warned".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/20/netherlands-becoming-a-narco-state-warn-dutch-police</ref>
 
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The phrase "Narco-state" is an exonym used to promote fear.

Usage

Democracy Now! mooted Afghanistan as "The Worst Narco-State in History?" in 2014, a reference to the increased harvest of opium after the 2001 Invasion of Afghanistan.[1]

The term is used by Western commercially-controlled media, possibly to suggest national governments which will be targeted for "regime change". Recipients of this term include Peru, Guinea Bissau[2][3] and Mozambique[4].

The Guardian in 2018 reported that "The Netherlands is starting to resemble a narco-state with the police unable to combat the emergence of a parallel criminal economy, a report from the Dutch police association has warned".[5]

 

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Mark Rutte“I get so angry reading those articles in Amsterdam where people are snorting 10000 lines of cocaine that are seemingly being used weekly or daily in the big cities, which makes me wonder that those idiots, that do that, those idiots that do that, they are maintaining that system of heavy crime, where Taghi and all those criminal families have made a billion-euro business.”Mark Rutte2019
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