eln meaning and definition

ELN noun

Definition of ELN (noun)

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"
   • synonyms: 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
   • synonyms: CNPZ, National Liberation Army, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission