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<text>
<title>
Ecuador: Global Terrorism
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<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Latin American Overview: Ecuador
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<p> The Government of Ecuador continued its policy of
negotiating with the Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC), a small,
Marxist-Leninist extremist group, to encourage its participation
in the legitimate political process. This effort resulted in a
ceremony in February at which a handful of AVC members turned
in 65 guns. In October, some of the members publicly announced
their desire to join President Borja's Democratic Left Party,
while a dissident faction denounced the move to abandon
clandestine terrorist activities. AVC members occupied the
French Consulate in Guayaquil in January 1991 and the British
Embassy in Quito in September 1991. The Ecuadorian Government
chose not to prosecute those who seized the facilities, although
one AVC member was charged with illegal possession of explosives
in connection with an attempted bombing of the Social Welfare
Ministry in May. Other minuscule extremist groups carried out
five low-level attacks against foreign interests in Ecuador
during 1991, four during the Gulf war.
</p>
<p>Source: United States Department of State, April 1992.
</p>
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