BOLIVIA, A NARCO-STATE WHOSE FOREIGN POLICY DEFENDS NARCOTICS’ TRAFFICKING

The “term narco-state is applied to all such countries whose institutions are heavily and significantly influenced by narcotics’ trafficking and whose leadership are, simultaneously; governmental officials and members of illicit narcotics’ trafficking networks, shielded and protected by their legal immunities”.   Narco-politics is “such political activities in which the State’s institutions are gravely influenced by narcotics’ trafficking”.