national liberation army

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national liberation army - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]