Word: pastora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...further sign of the contras' troubles came last week when Edén Pastora, a former Sandinista who has been leading a separate group of guerrillas operating from the south, announced that he was ceasing his activities. Pastora, who refused to join forces with the U.S.-supported contras in the north, said he had run out of arms and money. The real reason may be that his campaign had not sparked the army desertions or the popular support that he had expected...
...third guerrilla faction includes Edén Pastora Gómez, a Sandinista hero who became disillusioned with growing Soviet and Cuban influence over the revolution and defected from the Nicaraguan government in 1981. The group that includes Pastora has been biding its time in the democratic oasis of Costa Rica and has refused, in public at least, to deal with any of the other dissident groups that include former National Guard members, notably the F.D.N. Several weeks ago, Pastora slipped secretly into Nicaragua, and late last week he suddenly re-emerged in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa...
...month; about half of them are eventually released, but the rest simply disappear. Roberto Guillén, 23, served as deputy chief of military counterintelligence for the Defense Ministry, but grew so disenchanted with the tactics of the government that last August he fled to join Edén Pastora Gómez, a hero of the Sandinista revolution who defected in July 1981 and is now based in neighboring Costa Rica. Guillén's parents subsequently sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy. In an exclusive interview with Mexico City Bureau Chief James Willwerth, Guillén detailed...
...with the F.D.N. remains unclear, but the CIA is known to be arming and training the contras so they can stage raids into Nicaragua from bases in neighboring Honduras. These connections, in fact, have cost the F.D.N. the potential support of other exile leaders, most notably Edén Pastora Gómez, a former Sandinista leader who now lives in Costa Rica...
...public relations effort left many other Nicaraguan exiles unconvinced that the organization had changed. From his hilltop home overlooking the Costa Rican capital of San José, Pastora told TIME Reporter Timothy Loughran he still considered the F.D.N. bases in Honduras to be run by Somocistas, the name given the national guardsmen. Said Pastora: "It is a guard which until a short while ago was murdering us, and once it returns to Nicaragua, it will kill our young people, farmers and students...