With a force of about 5,800 combatants, the ELN -- the Spanish acronym for National Liberation Army -- is present in more than a fifth of Colombia's 1,100-plus municipalities STRINGER

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group ordered civilians in areas under its control on Friday to stay home for three days as it carries out military exercises in response to "intervention" threats from US President Donald Trump.

The ELN, the oldest surviving guerrilla group in the Americas, controls key drug-producing regions of Colombia and vowed Friday to fight for the country's "defense" in the face of Trump's "threats of imperialist intervention."

Amid a major US pressure campaign against Venezuela, which many view as an attempt to push out strongman Nicolas Maduro, Trump on Wednes

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