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(CNN Spanish) - Edén Pastora, known as “Comandante Cero”, died on Tuesday at the age of 83, according to the Nicaraguan vice president, Rosario Murillo, in her call to official media.
“Today, Tuesday, June 16, our beloved comrade Zero Commander, Eden Pastora, makes his transit to another vibrant and hopeful plane of life. Edén Pastora Gómez, and the legend grows and Edén Pastora is born today in the eternal heaven of heroes. Go to that other vibrant plane, hopeful of life, to those paradises that God has reserved for the human being who gives his best efforts all his heart to love and serve others, "said Murillo.
Her daughter Karla Pastora wrote on Facebook: “My old man, it is not a goodbye, it is a see you soon. Meanwhile I'm going to miss her a lot, my favorite Sandinista, knows that I love her very much my cute and sensational old man, ”said Pastora, who shared a video where her father asks to be remembered as a“ social fighter ” and “always Sandinista”.
In his morning program on the state-run Channel 6 channel, commentator Moisés Absalón Pastora reported Tuesday that Pastora died as a result of a heart attack. "Eden Pastora, commander, rest in peace. Her heart surrendered today at 2 this morning, "said Pastora.
Edén Pastora had informed the digital medium “Nicaragua Investiga” on June 5, that he had suffered a bronchopneumonia crisis that, according to him, affected him for the first time 10 years ago.
Edén Pastora Gómez was born in 1936 in Ciudad Darío, Matagalpa department. In the 1960s, he joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front, an armed organization that sought to overthrow the Somocista regime.
On August 22, 1978, Pastora gained notoriety by directing the group of guerrillas who took over the National Palace where the Nicaraguan Congress was sitting. According to several historians, this fact was a severe blow to the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship. This armed action achieved the freedom of several detained guerrillas and internationalized the Sandinista Front.
After the triumph of the Sandinista revolution, in July 1979, Pastora was appointed Deputy Minister of the Interior. On July 8, 1981, he resigned from office, accusing the revolutionary leaders of having changed the initial orientation of the Sandinista project and redirecting it towards communism. Pastora traveled to Panama and then to Costa Rica.
From Costa Rica, in 1982, it established the Sandino Revolutionary Front, which later acquired the name of Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE).
On May 30, 1984, Edén Pastora survived an attack in La Penca, near the border with Costa Rica, in which, according to El País of Spain, 7 people died and 22 were wounded, including Pastora.
In 1986, Pastora announced her withdrawal from military actions and requested asylum in Costa Rica, where she opened a small fishing company in the town of Samara.
Edén Pastora returned to Nicaragua in 1992 after the victory of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. He founded the Democratic Action Movement (MAD) in 1994. In 1996, the Supreme Electoral Council prevented Pastora from being a presidential candidate in the elections that year due to his ethical nationality, according to the newspaper La Prensa.
In 2017, President Daniel Ortega appointed Edén Pastora as Presidential Delegate for the San Juan River Development Commission by decree.
Pastora coordinated the dredging of the San Juan river, an action that caused an international dispute with Costa Rica, settled by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which ruled in favor of San José in December 2015.
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