The Invention of 'Narcoterrorism' Grants License to Kill Indiscriminately

In 1970, Nixon initiated the "war on drugs," and in 2001, Bush began the "war on terror." Later, both merged, and a neologism now in vogue appeared: narcoterrorism — used to justify any massacre anywhere in the world.

In December 2001, three months after the September 11 attacks, Bush proclaimed that drug trafficking financed terrorism. "Those who stop using drugs stop financing terrorism," he said. If the United States can kill a terrorist anywhere in the world, it can also kill a drug trafficker. This is how the killings of hundreds of people on South American coasts — no longer a police matter but a military one — are justified.

The labels are applied by imperialists, such as Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who has taken this political fraud a step further by proclaiming that drugs are "equivalent to chemical weapons."

Hegseth's first attack on the Venezuelan coast occurred on September 2 of last year. Including the second attack to kill survivors, the assault left 11 dead. There were no arrests, no charges, no defense, no trial. Trump announced that the victims were "positively identified as narcoterrorists from Tren de Aragua." Therefore, they had a license to kill because they were members of a "foreign terrorist organization."

It was false. They were killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.