The People's Liberation Forces (FPL) was a small terrorist organization that operated in Medellin, Colombia during the late 1990s.  Due to the group's limited activity, little information is available for the People's Liberation Forces.  The group was most likely a small urban faction of the larger Colombian terrorist organization, the National Liberation Army (ELN).  Due to the FPL's close association and joint operations with the socialist terrorist organization ELN, the FPL is assumed to share ELN's socialist ideology.  The People's Liberation Forces operated exclusively in the city of Medellin.

By 2000, Colombian authorities announced that they had eliminated all remnants of the People's Liberation Forces.  However, the People's Liberation Forces was most likely either a faction of the ELN or simply a cover name used by the ELN.  While the People's Liberation Forces is currently inactive, the ELN is actively engaged in terrorism.

People's Liberation Forces (El Salvador)

Armed Forces of National Resistance -- Ally
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front -- Umbrella Organization

Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces, Popular Forces of Liberation, Popular Liberation Forces

The People's Liberation Forces (FPL) was one of the first Salvadoran terrorist groups to emerge in the 1970s.  Opposed to foreign investment, "Yankee imperialism," and the Salvadoran oligarchy, these terrorist organizations spurred the existing Communist Party of El Salvador (PCES) to form new terrorist insurgency groups.  The Popular Forces of Liberation was actually formed by then-secretary general of the PCES, Salvador Cayetano Carpio.  Cayetano hoped his new organization would begin a "prolonged popular war" that would eventually lead to a communist El Salvador.  The Marxist group would emerge as the largest of the Salvadoran terrorist groups of the 1970s.  <P> The Popular Forces of Liberation included a radical militant faction and a more liberal group devoted to grassroots political work.  The two elements of the group would cause internal divisions, especially as some members moved towards conciliatory government negotiations.  FPL continued its terrorist actions throughout the 1970s.  In 1980, the group joined Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), an umbrella terrorist organization.  Reflecting the strength of FPL, the existing FPL leadership would heavily influence the direction of the newly-formed insurgency group.