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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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 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}]