The group was initially formed some time in the 1970s but was not militarily active for the first several years of its existence. In 1989, the government of Ecuador reached an agreement with AVC, with the group agreeing to end its violence. In January 2012, Rosa Mireya Cárdenas, who served as Secretary of Peoples, as a delegate of former AVC members, she returned the swords to the then President of Ecuador
Rafael Correa.
1983–1985 Since the beginning of 1983, the AVC carried out a large number of operations, which included actions such as bank robberies and graffiti, seeking in this way to achieve loudness in the media, which according to the AVC, were controlled by the "right". On 11 March, an attempt was made to assault the payer of Casa Baca (Quito), as a result of which Ricardo Merino and Vicente López were arrested. On 8 July, the Bust of Eloy Alfaro was stolen from the headquarters of the Supreme Liberal Junta in Quito Jarrín, Mireya Cárdenas and Edgar Frías held a press conference in which they announced the existence of the organization. Basantes and Frías temporarily assumed control of AVC. In October, during training near Esmeraldas, Basantes and Cárdenas were arrested for illegal possession of weapons. In April 1984, after the return of Jarrín from Libya and the release of Basantes from prison, the members of the AVC met and elected a Central Command made up of Jarrín, Basantes and Frías. On 12 June, the brothers Ricardo and Lilian Jarrín (both disguised as religious) assaulted the Banco de los Andes in
Quito. Benavides for her part remained detained for months, accused of illicit association. On 10 August, the day that Febres-Cordero assumed the presidency of Ecuador, the AVC took over several radio stations to announce its opposition to the incoming government. On 8 November, they kidnapped a reporter from the newspaper Meridiano de Guayaquil to force an interview with Fausto Basantes Borja. stealing 631 38 caliber revolvers, 40 carbines and several boxes of bullets. On 10 May, they seized radio station Iris from
Esmeraldas to broadcast an AVC proclamation. On 16 October, they seized the embassy of Mexico in response to the rupture of their diplomatic relations with Nicaragua. The AVC wanted 5 million dollars for his ransom with whom he planned to train guerrillas together with the Colombian M-19 and form a rural guerrilla in Ecuador. A secondary objective was to make a political statement, being part of the Ecuadorian banking and commercial oligarchy. Thinking that the government would not put Isaías's life at risk and they would negotiate a
financial bailout. Their plan was to take him to a safe house in
Manta. After the kidnapping, the guerrillas left Isaías' house in two cars: one carried the kidnapped with guerrillas and the other Juan Cuvi and Juan Carlos Acosta. Cuvi and Acosta's vehicle stopped at a gas station in
Nobol where a police unit patrolling the area arrested them. The guerrillas from the second vehicle exchanged fire with the police and fled to Guayaquil, where they had to take Isaías to a house in the La Chala neighborhood. Acosta was reportedly denied medical attention until his family intervened (his father was a former foreign minister), According to his mother, Laura Coloma de Acosta, who visited him in the hospital earlier his body was covered in bruises and his testicles were mangled. In accordance with the state policy of not negotiating with terrorists, on 2 September at 03:26 As a result, both Isaiah and his kidnappers died. The failure of this operation collapsed the AVC's first attempt to generate an economic base.
Eduardo Granda kidnap attempt On 18 December On 31 January, they tried to blow up towers 3 and 4 of the National Interconnected System on the Panamericana Sur, km. 11–12, with dynamite charges. On 4 February, a pamphlet bomb was detonated in the IESS hall in Quito. == In popular culture ==