narcokleptocracy: drug money-funded Peruvian death metal?[views:4946][posts:2]_________________________________ [Jan 25,2005 5:05am - damnose ""] OED Online Word of the Day narcokleptocracy, n. DRAFT ENTRY June 2003 Brit. /{smm}n{fata}{lm}k{schwa}{shtu}kl{ope}p{sm}t{rfa}kr{schwa}si/, U.S. /{sm}{smm}n{fata}rko{shtu}{smm}kl{ope}p{sm}t{fata}kr{schwa}si/ [< NARCO- + KLEPTOCRACY n. Cf. slightly later NARCOCRACY n.] An elite or dominant group of people whose wealth derives from the trade in illegal drugs and other organized criminal activities; a government dominated by such a group. Cf. NARCOCRACY n. 2. 1981 Newsweek 23 Nov. 79/1 Together they form what one diplomat calls a narcokleptocracy reaping a fortune from cocaine and other contraband. 1989 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Aug. II. 7/1 As the U.S. Senate's subcommittee on terrorism, narcotics and international operations reported in mid-April: Panama's democracy has been stolen as Noriega presides over the hemisphere's first narcokleptocracy. 1995 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 2 July C2 It's a term..transplanted from the narcokleptocracies (cabals of cops, pols, law enforcers in cahoots with drug dealers) of South and Central America. |
________________________________________________ [Jan 25,2005 1:17pm - humanbonedeathmachine ""] hahahaha |
_________________________________ [Jan 25,2005 1:19pm - pisscup ""] you should copyright that shit |