Narcoterrorism

Origin

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

Full definition of narcoterrorism

Noun

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, p. 223:Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.