The term narco-guerrilla is attributed to the United States ambassador in Bogotá, Lewis Tamb, who used it for the first time in 1982, and who, two or three years later in Costa Rica, was implicated in drug trafficking to finance the Contras.
Definition
The term defines narcoguerrilla as the symbiosis between guerrilla groups (especially those of a Marxist nature) and drug trafficking groups. They are usually identified as a counterpart to Narcoparamilitary, which is the symbiosis of paramilitary groups (usually extreme-right) with drug trafficking groups.
Although in theory it might seem that these groups hardly have anything in common, in practice it is quite the opposite, and this symbiosis tends to flourish in such a way that many times the interests of both become one, and it is impossible to know if they are. it deals with political movements that are engaged in drug trafficking as a collateral source of income or if they are traffickers who have political concerns.
Even the United States has been implicated in the use of drug money to subsidize the guerrillas, as in the case of the Nicaraguan Contras (who in this case were anti-Marxist right-wing). In certain cases, the symbiotic relationship of guerrilla groups with groups of drug traffickers becomes so deep that it becomes impossible to distinguish whether it is an organization in search of a political objective, or a group that acts as the armed wing of drug trafficking.
See also
Narcoterrorism
References
Eduardo Sáenz Rovner, The Cuban connection. Drug trafficking, smuggling and gambling in Cuba between the 1920s and the beginning of the Revolution (National University of Colombia, CES Collection, Bogotá, 2005) Robertson, John M. "Nationalism, Revolution and Narcotics Trafficking in Latin America (Colombia, Peru, Cuba)," University of Virginia ( Thesis Ph.D. ) (1994). Acevedo Carmona, Darío: The mentality of the elites on violence in Colombia 1936 - 1949, Bogotá: El Áncora Editores, IEPRI - National University, 1995 Aguilé, Federico: Drug Trafficking and Violence, CEDIB, Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1992. Alcántara, Manuel: "Of governance", in Latin America Today, Second Period, No. 8, 1994 Americas Watch. The "Drug War" in Colombia: The Neglected Tragedy of Political Violence, Human Rights Watch, New York, New York, 1990. 1982 neologisms Illegal drug trade Guerrilla warfare Political neologisms Military terminology