ELN Or National Liberation Army, One Of Two Guerrilla Organizations In ColombiaThe ELN or Ejército de Liberación Nacional (National Liberation Army) began in 1964 as a Marxist guerrilla organization with members from the catholic clergy along with marxists to form a revolutionary movement. This group has ties to areas outside the cities. Doctrine
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The group has occasionally joined up with FARC to carry out some of their operations and have now signed a pact to end their differences as in the past there has been clashes between the two groups not withstanding that both follow a Marxist ideology Financing their operations
There has been an ongoing peace process throughout the 1990's and into the 2000's without great progress. The United Nations (UN) included both the National Liberation Army and FARC on their list of "most persistent violators of children in conflict" in an annual report on children and armed conflict released May 21, 2010. Areas of activity
The group traditionally operates in the northeast along the border areas with Venezuela, located in the Andes mountains, areas of north, northeast, and southwest Colombia and Venezuela border regions. Developments in 2010 June 2, 2010Nine members of the ELN are believed to have been killed in clashes with FARC. See BBC News Colombia has arrested 3 men and 2 woman in La Guajira who were part of the Northern War Front. Their charges were for rebellion and other crimes, originally detained in Venezuela then deported to La Guajira. One member was the the head of military and finance of their Northern War Front. They were arrested in the city of Riohacha. Thursday May 20, 2010 the National University in Bogota was stormed by 50-60 guerrillas who took over the central square, speaking about the class war against the bourgeoisie, elections and the paramilitaries follow right wing ideologies.
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