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Terrorist Organization Profile: |
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| Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional (ELN) | |
| Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional - Bolivia (ELN-B) | |
| Bolivia | |
| November 1966 | |
| Group is inactive | |
| Communist/Socialist | |
| Unknown | |
| The National Liberation Army was founded by Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Following his participation in Cuba's 1959 communist revolution, Guevara chose to export Communist insurgency internationally. In 1965, Guevara arrived in the Congo with the intent to spark a Communist revolution. Following his time in the Congo, Guevara left for Bolivia in late 1966, where he spearheaded the National Liberation Army. Within a year, the National Liberation Army's leader was captured by U.S.-trained Bolivian security forces. On October 9, 1967, a day after his capture; Che Guevara was executed. The National Liberation Army (ELN) continued its insurgency into the early 1970s. Following the ideological lead of its founder, the National Liberation Army engaged in terrorism with the eventual aim of a overthrowing the Bolivian government. Theoretically, the ELN would then establish a Communist state in Bolivia. The insurgency was not successful and the ELN was eliminated by Bolivian security forces in the early 1970s. |
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| Between 1990 and 1993, a new terrorist organization emerged in Bolivia. The group claimed to be a re-constituted National Liberation Army. However, given that the ELN had been dormant for more than a decade, this new organization was most likely not connected to the original ELN. | |
Key Leaders
- n/a
Related Groups
- Nestor Paz Zamora Commission -- Splinter Group (Suspected)
U.S. Government Designations
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| No | |
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Learn more about these U.S. Department of State classifications: Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL) |
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Other Governments' Designations
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| No | |
| No | |
| No | |
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