ELN (n.)

  1. 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 governments efforts to stop the drug trade; ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations

    [ Syn: national liberation army , eln ]

  2. 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

    [ Syn: national liberation army , eln , nestor paz zamora commission , cnpz ]

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