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Noun: National Liberation Army
  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
    "National Liberation Army kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations";
    - 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
    - Nancahuazu Guerrilla, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

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