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Why Latin America’s oldest insurgent communist army is growing
Embedded researcher OLIVER DODD, who lived among the armed guerilla forces of the ELN, explains their origins, theory and practice
Masks are strictly used by ELN guerrillas to protect their identities for when they leave the armed units and go back into civil society
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COLOMBIA’S National Liberation Army (ELN) is Latin America’s oldest insurgent movement.
When founded in 1964, the ELN was, strategically and tactically speaking, inspired by the Cuban Revolution, which proved that a determined and well-organised political-military movement, could bring a solidly US-backed dictatorship to its knees.
While some have written that the ELN grew out of Colombia’s student movement — in reality, it emerged out of a worker-student-peasant alliance.
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