Word: costa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contras have not yet managed to take and hold a single Nicaraguan town. Their disarray was illustrated by the arrival in Washington of Pastora, who has been leading a group of contras fighting in southern Nicaragua from bases in Costa Rica. The CIA in May threatened to cut off aid to Pastora's group, hoping to force it to unite with the northern contras, a group Pastora has shunned because it includes former members of the hated National Guard. While Pastora was recuperating from injuries received in a bombing five weeks ago, his fellow rebels voted to join forces...
...might begin to heal. For the Reagan Administration, the inauguration symbolized its most successful accomplishment in the region, what Washington saw as a showpiece of evolving democracy. "El Salvador is a dramatic example of civilized political change," said an admiring José Figueres Ferrer, 77, a former President of Costa Rica...
...attempt had rocked one of the less successful pillars of U.S. policy in Central America. Eden Pastora Gómez, the redoubtable leader of one flank of the CIA-sponsored contras, had invited about 15 reporters to his headquarters inside Nicaragua. The group was driven from San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, to the San Juan River, which serves as the border between the two countries. There the reporters climbed into two long dugouts with outboard motors and chugged up the river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora...
Helicoptered to San José, the guerrilla leader was taken to the city's most exclusive hospital. His men immediately turned Pastora's floor of the Clinica Biblica into a fortress, sealing off elevators and stationing heavily armed guards in the stairwells. Costa Rican authorities, anxious about their country's neutral status, placed Pastora in government custody; on Friday he was flown on a stretcher to Venezuela...
...Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge implied that the Sandinistas might be responsible for the bombing, but ARDE leaders insisted that the camp area was clear of Nicaraguan soldiers. More logical culprits include ARDE members with access to the base, some of whom may have been angry enough with Pastora's decision to kill him. In the aftermath, Pastora's colleagues quickly down-played their disagreements, but the episode promised not only to delay ARDE's alliance with the F.D.N. but to strengthen Pastora's resolve against any union under conditions other than...