Talk:Narco-state

School project
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

Because of a school project, I will be working on the narco-state wikipedia page. I am planning on adding more information concerning the description of the narco-state and am considering adding a discussion about Colombia in the final section. If you have any tips or comments, please let me know!

Greetings, MyrtheSpecht (talk) 07:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@MyrtheSpecht: I agree that the description of a narco-state needs to be added to. I would suggest expanding the categories of narco-state by explaining the indicators for each category. I agree that adding a discussion about Columbia would be beneficial to the article, however, I think it is more precedent to add more to the subheadings/examples (the United Kingdom, etc) because they are severely lacking information. Carter925 (talk) 01:05, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

@MyrtheSpecht: I also agree that it is important to expand on the introduction/description given of a narco-state. I also think that adding indicators/criteria of a narco-state will be useful and Colombia is an interesting case to add. Wmair00 (talk) 15:58, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Fellow Wikipedians,

As mentioned before, I have been working on the narco-state page. So far I have been adding extra information to the description of the concept. As I am almost finished with this, I am planning on either posting it later on tonight or tomorrow morning. I will also be taking a closer look at the section about Mexico. I think it could use some extra attention concerning the cartels and political implications of drug trafficking.

If you have any tips or notes, please do not hesitate to contact me. MyrtheSpecht (talk) 14:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Hello Fellow Wikipedians,

I just posted my changes to the page. Please have a look and let me know if you have any tips or suggestions. Happy weekend.

MyrtheSpecht (talk) 12:19, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Narco-state
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Narco-state's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Britannica": From Latakia: Latakia. (2009). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2009-03-01, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online. From Afghanistan:  From Cuba:  From Manuel Noriega:  From Mexico:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:24, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

Neutrality issues
The article seems to be made of name-calling against threats to United States' national security (geopolitical opponents and countries with non-US-controlled drug cartels), while ignoring the role of United States themselves, their pharmaceutical industry and their geopolitical allies in drug trade, such as Allegations of CIA drug trafficking, Opioid epidemic in the United States, the currently happening amphetamine epidemics (there is no dedicated WP article about it, Amphetamines is the closest WP article I found, but the mechanism of the epidemy is similar, doctors persuade people into taking them for treatment of their condition (and it works for some time) and then prescribe the drugs to everyone who reports certain sympthoms, internet contains pretty a lot of material on the problem within the personal blogs of US-based doctors), Cannabis policy of the Joe Biden administration, Cannabis in Ukraine, 2023 White House cocaine incident and Hunter_Biden. To make the article more balanced it must cover the allegations of United States being a narco-state itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.24.165.50 (talk) 08:48, 15 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm sympathetic, but on a quick search I'm having a hard time finding reliable non-state scholarly sources that specifically call the U.S. a narco state. There's tons of writing about the U.S.'s shady relationships with organized crime, however. Do you have any sources in mind that you're thinking of? toobigtokale (talk) 03:12, 26 July 2023 (UTC)

Of course, the CIApedia will not mention the British Empire and the USA.
Of course, the CIApedia won't mention the British Empire and the USA, which even had their universities built with drug money. Instead, they prefer to use propaganda from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (Radio Free Asia, Voice of America, etc.).

And any edits that go against this will be reversed and the user will be banned or persecuted, because freedom of speech is only for land thieves. Honesttangl0 (talk) 17:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)