Narcobourgeois

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

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'.

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