User:Captain ulysses/Narcocomunismo

"Narcocommunism" is an expression used to designate the use of drug trafficking by parties or guerrilla movements of Marxist ideology to finance their activities. The expression appeared in the mid-1980s as a theory that implied an alleged plan to destabilize the United States through drug trafficking. One of the first to use the term was then-US Under Secretary of State Elliot Abrams. .2 In the context of the Cold War, the United States government considered the practice of “narco-communism” as a threat to its interests and the health of its population3, making this vision official through document NSDD-221, of 1986, 4 where the alliance of some leftist guerrilla movements with drug traffickers was detailed in terms of protecting local drug traffickers, destabilizing democratic and pro-Western regimes and obtaining financing through drug trafficking.