Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eln

2 senses of eln

Sense 1
National Liberation Army, ELN -- (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")
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Sense 2
National Liberation Army, ELN, Nestor Paz Zamora Commission, CNPZ -- (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)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)