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3 unusual facts about Edén Pastora


Edén Pastora

After negotiating a USD $500,000 deal with Somoza and Cardinal Miguel Obando, Pastora, Ortega and other released prisoners left for Cuba, where he claimed to have been a "prisoner" lavished with women and luxury, but not allowed to leave the country until Martín Torrijos, the son of then Panamanian strongman Omar Torrijos and Pastora's personal friend, voiced his concern and went to Cuba to rescue him personally.

Once Marcos was allegedly identified as Rafael Guillén, on 9 February 1995, in an counterproductive turn of events, the President Ernesto Zedillo took a series of decisions that completely broke with the strategy and action plan previously defined and the agreements he authorized his Secretary of Interior Lic Esteban Moctezuma to agree just a few days before in Guadalupe Tepeyac with Marcos.

Mexico Secretary of Interior Esteban Moctezuma champion a pacific solution of the 1995 Zapatista Crisis He organized an creative strategy that demonstrated Subcomandante Marcos natural pacifist vocation and the terrible consequences of a military solution.



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