Narcoterrorism

noun

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

    "Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism."

  2. 2
    the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade wordnet

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narcoterror

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"Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism."

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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