national liberation army meaning and definition

NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY noun

Definition of National Liberation Army (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: 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
   • synonyms: CNPZ, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission