Word: pastora
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TIME'S editors met last year with Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and also with his contra guerrilla opponent, Eden Pastora Gomez. The exchanges can be remarkably frank, as was the case with Nicaragua's Ortega. (In a gracious prelude to a hard-hitting conversation, he presented Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave with a painting by a Nicaraguan artist...
Conspicuously absent from the ceremonies was former ARDE Chief Edén Pastora Gómez. Five days before the Panama meeting, Pastora was relieved of his command on the southern front and replaced by Fernando ("El Negro") Chamorro Rapoccioli, a military officer aligned with the ARDE. Pastora had opposed the merger plan on the ground that the F.D.N. was led by former National Guard officers who had supported deposed Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Pastora has vowed to continue his war against the Sandinistas with his own faction, the Sandino Revolutionary Front...
...Costa Rica will have to pay a price. In the past two years the country has become a home for the 3,500 anti-Sandinista contras of the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (ARDE) and, in the process, a target for Nicaraguan reprisals. Just three months ago, after ARDE Chief Eden Pastora Gomez used his Costa Rican base to launch a 36-hour attack on the Nicaraguan port town of San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua struck back by firing 60 rockets at the Costa Rican border settlement of Poco Sol. Not long before the Sandinistas began assaulting the border town...
...many Americans, Roberto d'Aubuisson, fiery leader of El Salvador's fiercest right-wing faction, represents the dangerous pitfalls of U.S. support for that troubled country. Somewhat similarly, Edén Pastora Gómez, the maverick "Commander Zero" of the Nicaraguan revolution who later took up arms against his victorious comrades, has come to illustrate the troubles of Washington's covert effort to put pressure on the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Both of these flamboyant figures happened to be in Washington last week just after the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut aid to anti-Sandinista contra...
...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...