noun
- A Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade.
- usage: "ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations"
- synonyms: National Liberation Army
- A terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s.
- synonyms: National Liberation Army, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ
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