Edén Pastora
Nicaraguan guerrilla commander known as Comandante Cero, who led the Sandinista raid on the National Palace in Managua in 1978 · Nicaragua · On the map · Politicians · Lived 1936 to 2020 · aged 83 · Born 90 years ago today
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections.
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In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north. Pastora was nicknamed Comandante Cero.