narcobourgeois

narcobourgeois

English

Etymology

narco- +‎ bourgeois

Noun

narcobourgeois (plural narcobourgeois)

1. A member of the narcobourgeoisie.
   • 1989, Donald J. Mabry, The Latin American Narcotics Trade and U.S. National Security‎, page 66:

     Peru's traffickers do not represent a self-conscious narcobourgeois class (to borrow from Merrill Collett).

   • 2005, Doug Stokes, America's Other War: Terrorizing Colombia‎, page 76:

     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'.

   • 2012, Andre Cedilot, Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan‎, page 141:

     The very exemplar of a 1980s narcobourgeois, he travelled extensively and cultivated extremely profitable contacts.