First Departmental Congress of CAD in Ayacucho - Expulsion of the Huayhuaco Command

From September 16 to 18, 1993, the First Departmental Congress of Anti-Subversive Self-Defense Committees was held in Ayacucho. The Congress unanimously ratified the expulsion of Javier Pompeyo Rivera T., known as Commander Huayhuaco, who had been imprisoned for drug trafficking. He was declared persona non grata to the self-defense organizations of the department of Ayacucho. This fact shows the efforts of the DECAS to disassociate itself from links with drug trafficking, although Huayhuaco had been one of the most famous commandos.