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Rosa Mireya CARDENAS Hernandez

M-19 members also have backed AVC terrorists in important operations. For example, eight M-19 members and two AVC terrorists apparently worked together to kidnap a prominent Guayaquil banker in August 1985.

Member of the AVC Central Command

The operation was aborted, however, when security forces stormed the hideout, killing the banke, sieveral terrorists.

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İIn return for such assistance, the AVC sent some 30 members to fight alongside the M-19 in the “America Battalion"- -a multinational rural guerrilla organization operating in southern Colombia. This demonstration of solidarity, however, ultimately led to strains, because the AVC wishes to recall its members to beef up its depleted ranks. (b)(1)

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Rosa Cardenas Hernandez, 27, is one of the founding members of the Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (AVC) group. She was arrested in Costa Rica in August 1984 while trying to return to Ecuador from Nicaragua and Panama. She is currently residing in Managua and directs the AVC's external front organization from there. She is known to have participated in bank robberies and is suspected of having acted behind the scenes in other AVC operations. Following the deaths of several leaders, Cardenas is a possible contender for AVC chief. Certainly she will have considerable influence on the selontinn of a new AVC chies.

Other Foreign Ties

individual AVC members also have received guerrilla training in El Salvador, Libya, and Nicaragua. The AVC reportedly sent several members to El Salvador for training because of a guarantee that they would participate in live-fire situations. In Nicaragua, small groups of AVC members reportedly have patrolled with Sandinista Army units searching for

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Libya also has trained AVC members. Between October 1983 and January 1984, approximately 20 AVC members accompanied an M-19 group to Libya

and received guerrilla

training at camp(b)(1)Tripoli,

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promises of assistance from the Vietnamese, Syrian, and Cuban Embassies, as well as PLO representatives in Managua: • Cuba has pledged intelligence and security training,

as well as assistance in building guerrilla hospitals

in rural areas. • Vietnam will provide training in jungle warfare and

mountain camouflage. Syria reportedly will give the AVC an unspecified

amount of money and arms. • The PLO allegedly offered arms and training in

exchange for the “detection of Jews living in America,” and propaganda support of the PLO.

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The AVC reportedly has a specialized unit that establishes and maintains contacts with international terrorist groups and foreign governments. As of May 1986, Rosa Mireya Cardenas, an AVC member living in Managua, was in charge of this external front (see inset). She reportedly had contacted and received

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