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)

1. 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