national liberation army

National Liberation Army
    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}]