national liberation army

(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. Synonyms: National Liberation Army, ELN. Example: "Eln kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations."

(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. Synonyms: National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ.