national liberation army Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    ELN.
    • ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations
  2. noun 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
    Nestor Paz Zamora Commission; ELN; CNPZ.

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