The history of the Ecuadorian guerrilla movement Alfaro Vive Carajo! (AVC) represents one of the most singular cases of the Latin American Cold War period. There is virtually no comparable case of a guerrilla group that, within just three years of its inception, and despite its careful use of violence—resulting in very few assassinations or kidnappings—had most of its leadership exterminated. AVC had the misfortune of emerging in 1983, just one year before the conservative León Febres Cordero came to power. Within the international framework of Operation Condor (with strategic support from the United States), Cordero’s government effectively implemented counterinsurgency policies using torture and extrajudicial executions carried out by Ecuadorian security forces. This chapter, employing the methodology of oral history, will depict not only the military defeat of this guerrilla group but also its struggle against historical oblivion.