Word: pastora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week Eden Pastora stunned the Sandinista leadership by resigning as Vice Minister of Defense and leaving for Panama. The ruling directorate tried to talk Pastora into returning. Three directorate members appeared on national television to plead with the revolutionary hero to "undo" his action...
...trio also read a letter, allegedly written by Pastora on June 26, suggesting that he would carry on the struggle in El Salvador or Guatemala, fighting in "the trenches where the duty of an international combatant leads...
...Pastora's first remarks to the press on arriving in Panama suggested that revolutionary fervor may not have been his only motive. Panama's daily La Republica, whose editor met with Pastora shortly after his arrival, reported that the Nicaraguan had left following a "break with [Interior Minister Tomas] Borge and the Reds" over the presence of "many military observers from Cuba in Nicaragua," along with increasing numbers of Cuban and Soviet "political units...