(U) The National Liberation Army or ELN (Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional) is a group that is based in Columbia, starting in the 1960s during the time when Columbia was going through a short area known as la Violencia, a ten year civil war. All of which had the influence of from the Cuban revolution. The ELN would possess a threat to United States based on their theological ideology and actions that took place in their home of operations. The group is notorious for kidnapping, extortion, and oil theft and drug trafficking.
(U) Influenced by two major events, la Violencia and the Cuban Revolution, ELN support aspired from “numerous religious and student movements”, according from insightcrime.org, which says that this is where the majority …show more content…
By forming criminal action such as that shows that income is a possible weakness as it demonstrates the limitation on resources. The group has grown in a chaotic form, unstable do to the constant violent betrayal and change in leadership. As of recent, ELN uses drug trafficking as its main sources of funding aside from kidnapping and ransom. As of 2009, ELN has allied with FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), or the Revolution Armed Forces of Colombia, increasing the possibility of the threat increasing in strength and numbers. With increase numbers of hostile will increase the number of actions of their operations. In order to combat this, increasing US presents in Colombia in which ELN operates and monitor the frequency of kidnapping operations. By monitoring their actions US forces can determine which common locations are kidnappings and engage the hostiles. As well as targeting the general areas of which drug distribution is common place and cutting the people the areas of the country off from funding them. In doing so, the hostiles while have to revaluate the actions to fund their
(U) Influenced by two major events, la Violencia and the Cuban Revolution, ELN support aspired from “numerous religious and student movements”, according from insightcrime.org, which says that this is where the majority …show more content…
By forming criminal action such as that shows that income is a possible weakness as it demonstrates the limitation on resources. The group has grown in a chaotic form, unstable do to the constant violent betrayal and change in leadership. As of recent, ELN uses drug trafficking as its main sources of funding aside from kidnapping and ransom. As of 2009, ELN has allied with FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia), or the Revolution Armed Forces of Colombia, increasing the possibility of the threat increasing in strength and numbers. With increase numbers of hostile will increase the number of actions of their operations. In order to combat this, increasing US presents in Colombia in which ELN operates and monitor the frequency of kidnapping operations. By monitoring their actions US forces can determine which common locations are kidnappings and engage the hostiles. As well as targeting the general areas of which drug distribution is common place and cutting the people the areas of the country off from funding them. In doing so, the hostiles while have to revaluate the actions to fund their