Narco Terrorism

Narco Terrorism

The notion of “narcoterrorism” was presented in 1983 by the Peruvian President Belaunde Terry to designate terrorist-like attacks against his country's pharmaceutical enforcement police. Drug lawless individuals utilized procedures from political assailants to leverage the government of the homeland by initating terror and obstructing justice. Later, ideology-driven terrorist associations took up illegal drug trade as a source of income. Over the years, some delineations of “narcoterrorism” have been introduced. The broadest delineation is granted by the Oxford lexicon (1999): “Terrorism associated with the trade in illegal drugs”. It does not show whether ideological and political or, lawless individual and ...