narcoterrorism

English

Etymology

narco- +‎ terrorism; coined by President of Peru Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1983 when describing terrorist-type attacks against his nation's anti-narcotics police.

Noun

narcoterrorism (uncountable)

Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.
- 1993, James Rochlin, Discovering the Americas: The Evolution of Canadian Foreign Policy Towards Latin America, page 223:
  Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.

Translations

terrorism as a factor in narcotrafficking

Dutch: narcoterrorisme (nl)
French: narcoterrorisme (fr) m
German: Drogenterrorismus m, Narcoterrorismus m
Italian: narcoterrorismo (it) m
Russian: наркотеррори́зм (ru) m (narkoterrorízm)
Spanish: narcoterrorismo m

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