¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (AVC) (), another name for the Fuerzas Armadas Populares Eloy Alfaro (), was a clandestine left-wing group in Ecuador, founded in 1982 and named after popular government leader and general Eloy Alfaro. The group was labeled as a terrorist organization for the Ecuadorian state during the period of the former president León Febres Cordero, existing between 1983 to 1991, years where they carried out various armed actions and criminal acts in Ecuador,<ref>Comisión de Defensa Jurídico-Institucional de la Policía Nacional. 2010 TERRORISMO Y SUBVERSIÓN. Por: Manuel Sarmiento Mera. Con: Varios créditos autorales. CAPÍTULO I; La búsqueda de la verdad 19, Una verdad profesional 22, La gran verdad institucional 22, Acciones delictivas cometidas en el Ecuador desde 1976 por los grupos subversivos: Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC), Montoneras Patria Libre (MPL) y el Movimiento Colombiano 19 de abril (M-19). <sub>1984: DIVERSIDAD DE ACCIONES DELINCUENCIALES: El 12 de junio se produce el asalto al Banco de los Andes, agencia Kennedy, en Quito. Los asaltantes Ricardo Arturo Jarrín Jarrín y Lilian Beatriz Jarrín Jarrín, miembros del grupo AVC con hábitos religiosos cometieron el atraco. 'Toma el mando Arturo Jarrín, adoptando el apelativo dado por la prensa todos esos años, se funda el grupo Alfaro Vive hasta su disolución en el gobierno posterior. Borja.</sub></ref> with Colombian influence (M-19) and Nicaraguan (Nicaraguan Revolution). The group was initially formed sometime in the 1970s, but was not active militarily for the first few years of the 80's. An openly leftist organization, but not Marxist, they identified with the Democratic Left coalition. The AVC first received national attention in 1983, when it broke into a museum and stole swords used by former president and leader of the liberal revolution, Eloy Alfaro. Some of the group's leaders were thought to be affiliated with Cuba, Libya and Nicaragua, and the group itself was linked to militant groups in other Latin American countries, such as M-19 and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, establishing a group of joint operations called America Battalion with these two groups. Between 1986 and 1987, AVC carried out several kidnappings, robbed banks and a factory, seized several radio stations to broadcast their manifesto, and killed four policemen while retrieving a member of the group from police custody. At its height, the AVC had between 200 and 300 members. The AVC did not carry out attacks against the population or large-scale attacks since according to Santiago Kingman,