Sentences with phrase «narco state»

In their world, the entire country has become a «narco state,» literally managed and controlled by a massive drug cartel.

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«Without this type of political support, military aid, and supportive push from a GOP Congress in the 1990s, it might have become a failed nation and even greater «narco - state» threat to the U.S.»

The situation gets more galling when Netflix executives state, without offering proof, that they are beating the networks, as Sarandos did last December when he said that Netflix's drug - trafficking drama Narcos reached more viewers than the HBO hit Game of Thrones.

We've seen most of West Africa descend into a kind of narco - state where armed militias compete for drug territory.

With high - ranking government officials and members of Maduro's family sanctioned or indicted in connection to drug - trafficking crimes, Venezuela has been dubbed a «narco - state.»

Either way, narco - states would lack a viable export; especially if as suggested by @DA internal restrictions are lifted before import / export restrictions are.

It is about Ghana gradually becoming a narco - state.

With the help of casting director Carla Hool, who worked on «East Los High» and «Narcos,» the «Coco» team saw hundreds of boys in the United States and Mexico.

Matthew Heineman «s «Cartel Land» is indeed a gruesome and riveting account of how the narco violence has kept entire towns in the state of Michoacán hostage, and how a group of civilians, the «Autodefensas,» took matters into their own hands and became a reactive form of rogue institution that had, initially, no ties to the federal government, but it's also a profoundly humanistic and intellectually complex work.

Their objective: to create the biggest Narco - State in history.

The Santa Blanca drug cartel has transformed the beautiful South American country of Bolivia into a perilous narco - state, leading to lawlessness, fear, and rampant violence.

Set in the largest action - adventure open world ever created by Ubisoft, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands takes place in Bolivia, a few years from now, as the country has been turned by the vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel into a narco - state.

Players will discover Bolivia a few years from now, a country transformed by the vicious Santa Blanca drug cartel into a narco - state.

Other states — including Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, and Montana — have passed laws to legalize hemp - farming, based on the DEA granting a permit to do so (which the narcos have done only once, to researchers in Hawaii — a permit that has long since expired).

With or without Tandy and the federal narcos, North Dakota has continued moving forward with its plans to license individual state farmers to cultivate industrial cannabis — the non-narcotic cousin of marijuana that is easy to grow, and actually rejuvenates the soil — and on Feb. 6 issued the nation's first - ever hemp farming licenses to two farmers there, at least one of whom is ready to push Tandy and her pals into federal court in order to win the right to cultivate the environmentally friendly crop.

Moreover, the agency's track record doesn't exactly inspire confidence: Still pending before the narcos is a 1999 application from North Dakota State University to grow a research crop.

And, just about everybody acknowledges that if Afghanistan doesn't come to grips with the drug problem, it is already, or it will soon become, a narco - terrorist state.