narcoterrorism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.

Word forms

narcoterrorism narco-terrorism

Etymology

From narco- + terrorism; coined by President of Peru from 1963 to 1968 and from 1980 to 1985 Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.

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