Word: pastora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eden Pastora, the perennial Nicaraguan maverick, returned to Managua last week in a homecoming more quixotic than heroic. The charismatic former guerrilla will campaign for dark-horse Social Christian presidential candidate Erick Ramirez, touting him as an alternative to both the Marxist Sandinistas and the National Opposition Union, a coalition dominated by the right wing...
Under the nom de guerre Commander Zero, Pastora became a revolutionary superstar in 1978 after leading a raid on the National Palace that helped topple the Somoza regime a year later. Partly because he was unhappy with the Sandinistas' growing dependence on Moscow, he quit as Vice Minister of Defense and in 1983 launched a guerrilla war against his former comrades. But he rejected CIA pressure to join the main contra faction and was finally forced to quit fighting...
...Pastora can dazzle audiences, but he is not a candidate. His stumping for Ramirez will probably split opposition votes, which is one reason the Sandinistas let Pastora return in the first place...
...dismissed suit, which has been followed feverishly by activists on the left and right, was filed on behalf of Journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey, who claimed that the 1984 bombing of a press conference held by Nicaraguan Rebel Leader Eden Pastora Gomez was the work of 29 conspirators, including retired Generals Richard Secord and John Singlaub and former CIA Deputy Director of Operations Theodore Shackley. Sheehan, who will appeal the dismissal, claims it is a "conscious action to stop this case from going to trial before the election...
Surviving ABC cameraman Tony Avirgan together with his wife Martha Honey investigated the bombing to identify the perpetrators. They concluded that Adolfo Calero and the C.I.A. ordered the bombing to assassinate Pastora. For at the press conference, Pastora was about to denounce the F.D.N., Calero's Somocista comrades, and his C.I.A. controllers, and publicly refuse to submit to their unified command...