For more information, visit: www.lawdepot.com/?pid=pg-BFYMIBUINL-generaltextlin… Narcoterrorism, first defined by Fernando Belaúnde Terry, the president of Peru in 1983, can be described as an organized campaign of terror that is waged by traffickers in the illegal drug trade. Various forms of terror are employed to impede the efforts of different government agencies that are charged with the responsibility of ending the numerous illegal actions associated with drug cartels. The drug cartels' purpose of narcoterrorism to influence and control government policy and to establish their own "law" through systematic threats and the use of violence.