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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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;
- Example: "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]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]