narcoterrorism

Meaning

Noun

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

Origin

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

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