HyperDic: national_liberation_army

English > 2 senses of the expression National Liberation Army:
NOUNgroupNational Liberation Army, ELNa Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution
groupNational Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZa terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups
English > National Liberation Army: 2 senses > noun 1, group
MeaningA 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.
SynonymELN
Categoryterrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist actThe calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
Instance ofterrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTOA political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
RegionColombia, Republic of ColombiaA republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea
English > National Liberation Army: 2 senses > noun 2, group
MeaningA 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 / originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s.
SynonymsELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ
Categoryterrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist actThe calculated use of violence (or the threat / threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature
Instance ofterrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTOA political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
RegionBolivia, Republic of BoliviaA landlocked republic in central South America

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