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 government's efforts to stop the drug
trade; "ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of
laarge corporations" [syn: National Liberation Army]
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, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ]