eln 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
   National Liberation Army.
   
   • 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; National Liberation Army; CNPZ.
   

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