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 kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations" Synonym(s):National Liberation Army, ELN
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 Synonym(s):National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ