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That explanation was not implausible. Pastora is not a hardened Communist; nationalism, rather than Marxism, has always been his creed. Moreover, he is more soldier than politician, and thus may have become impatient with the rather low-level administrative job in the military he was given by the victorious Sandinistas...
...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...
Financed by socialists in Europe and South America, the Terceristas have staged the most spectacular Sandinista operations, including last year's brief takeover of the National Palace in Managua. The best-known Tercerista is Eden Pastora, the Comandante Cero (Zero) who led that raid. More influential are the Ortega brothers, Humberto and Daniel, who represent the Terceristas on the nine-man Sandinista National Directorate. Daniel was named by Sandinistas as their representative on the five-member "temporary government" selected last week by the rebels. The others: Moises Hassan Morales, leader of the Sandinistas' political arm, the National Patriotic...