narcoterrorism means use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
NARCOTERRORISM — [Noun] The systematic use of terrorist violence and intimidation by drug traffickers to influence state policies, subvert law enforcement, and protect their commercial enterprises. From narco- (a combining form from narcotic) + terrorism; coined by Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1983. Unlike terrorism, which is primarily an ideological engine, or drug trafficking, a purely mercantile endeavor, narcoterrorism is the chilling merger of commerce and carnage, where profit is the only ideology. It is the car bomb detonating outside a courthouse at noon, the village mayor found hanged from a bridge at dawn, and the acid scent of cocaine laboratories humming in jungle clearings guarded by child soldiers with assault rifles—a brutal calculus where fear is the primary currency of trade, a grim testament to the point where commerce, stripped of all morality, becomes indistinguishable from war.
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- Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.“Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.”