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The Armed Forces of National Liberation (in Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional, FALN) was a Venezuelan guerrilla group formed by the Communist Party of Venezuela to foment revolution against the democratically elected governments of Rómulo Betancourt and Raul Leoni.
Since the 1990s, the National Liberation Army (ELN) began to establish positions in the western border states of Venezuela. [1] The ELN grew close to Venezuelan officials during the tenure of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, with Chávez approving relationships with the group.
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian negotiators will travel to Venezuela's capital Caracas to hold an extraordinary round of peace talks with leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), the ...
Colombia's attorney general's office on Wednesday reissued arrest warrants for leaders of the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, who had been participating in peace talks, as forced ...
More than 80 people were killed in the country’s northeast over the weekend following the government’s failed attempts to hold peace talks with the National Liberation Army, a Colombian ...
The National Liberation Army (Spanish: Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) is a guerrilla insurgency group [7] involved in the continuing Colombian conflict, [8] which has existed in Colombia since 1964. The ELN advocates a composite communist ideology of Marxism–Leninism and liberation theology. In 2013, it was estimated that the ELN ...
The main groups vying for control over Catatumbo are the Popular Liberation Army (EPL) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). [15] The EPL had existed quietly in Catatumbo for a long time before the ELN made moves to expand into the region. [20] After the power vacuum, both groups began to assert power over civilians in the region.
The Ombudsman's Office said the latest violence involved the National Liberation Army (ELN) - the largest armed group still active in Colombia - and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ...