Meanings
- A member of the narcobourgeoisie.
Peru's traffickers do not represent a self-conscious narcobourgeois class (to borrow from Merrill Collett).
1989, Donald J. Mabry, The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security, page 662 more examples
It also provided the prototype for the emergence of a new kind of paramilitary phenomenon explicitly tied to the drugs trade and the defence of the interests of the increasingly powerful coca-funded 'narcobourgeois'.
2005, Doug Stokes, America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia, page 76The very exemplar of a 1980s narcobourgeois, he travelled extensively and cultivated extremely profitable contacts.
2012, Andre Cedilot, Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan, page 141
Origin
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