MPL had links to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and leftist rebels in El Salvador. They reportedly received Soviet-made weapons from the Sandinistas. The group also was suspected of having ties to the Cuban government.

After years of inactivity, the Cinchonero name popped up after a <a href="http://tkb.org/Incident.jsp?incID=21387">deadly attack on a bus</a> in December 2004 in which 28 people were killed. A note left at the scene was signed by the Cinchonero Popular Liberation Movement. The attack, however, was most likely perpetrated by local criminals or the international gang Maras Salvatruchas. The note was almost certainly left to mask the identities of the attackers. MPL is still presumed to be inactive.

Clandestini claimed responsibility for a November 1999 attack on two government buildings in Ajaccio, the capital city of the island of Corsica.  The two bombs went off mid-day, injuring at least eight people at the URSAFF (social security) building, and the DDE (departmental infrastructure office) building.  The group's statement said that they were "born of the national liberation struggle," and that they had "decided to take the military path to force the French state into a political resolution of the Corsican question."  The government buildings were chosen, according to the group, as symbols of fiscal repression and for their failure to hire indigenous Corsicans for government positions.  (Several months later, a second group calling itself Corsica Viva claimed responsibility for the same attack.)

Although the group was presumed inactive, a similarly named group, Clandestini Corsi, recently claimed responsibility for a March 2004 explosion in a residential neighborhood with a large population of North African immigrants.

Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica (FLNC) -- Ally

Clandestini Corsi ("The Clandestine Corsicans") seeks to halt North African immigration into Corsica.  The group attempts to intimidate immigrants through a campaign of attacks accompanied by threats of violence upon Arab households.  Clandestini Corsi claims that its primary motivation is to stamp out drug trafficking on the French island, an issue which it believes is a serious problem for Corsica and which it blames upon new immigrants.  More moderate Corsican nationalists have denounced Clandestini Corsi and its virulent racism, strongly declaring that the cause of Corsican separatism should not be conflated with racist ideology. <P><br /><br />By November 2004, Clandestini Corsi had claimed responsibility for seven assaults on houses or shops belonging to North African immigrants.  No one is believed to have been killed in any of the Clandestini Corsi attacks.  The first bomb attack took place in March 2004 at a building where high school students of Corsican and North African origin had clashed the night before.<br />