Talk:La Penca bombing

message: This article needs further critical elaboration. The events of la Penca bombing and the contra war in general are portrayed in a manner that downplays the role the US government played in the Contra war (this is well documented in academic literature too extensive to list, also in countless news accounts from reputable sources like the NYTimes, Cristian Science Monitor, Washington Post, etc.) Eden Pastora abandoned the post of vice-minister of interior, renounced to the FSLN and fabricated a story of going to Guatemala... instead he went on to create a "Southern Front" against the Sandinista government. While he may be characterized as a "revolutionary" by some, at the time he was in the FSLN he was seen as an opportunist and hungry for power by most. In this context portraying him as a "revolutionary" could be misinterpreted as him still being in the FSLN--that was not the case. --Guillermo 08:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: *When?  It currently says " in Nicaragua in 1984".  Can we get a particular date?
*What plot of July 20th?
*references
*categories  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) 15:54, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Other sources indicate that the bomb was planted by an individual named "Tony" whose real name was "Amac Galil." Manning (talk) 17:21, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
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message: In the last several days, I've tried to beef up the La Penca entry, using source material (the Miami Herald, The Tico Times). The section was very spare and omitted relatively recent developments. I took out the sentence that said that mostly American journalists were victims of the attack, when in fact, by my count there were only three Americans among the affected journalists. I also included a section about the revelations of Swedish journalist Peter Torbiornsson, which I think is relavent to a complete understanding of La Penca. Don't know why someone reverted the section, so I reverted it back.-- John McPhaul65.23.222.189 (talk) 18:40, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
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message: I'm not going to edit the main page because this is probably a controversial subject, and I'm only an occasional editor and this isn't my pet subject (I usually do minor spelling and grammar or fact-checking on obscure humanities articles, although this isn't reflected in my current IP).
From the wiki page as it is now: "In 2009, Swedish journalist and La Penca survivor Peter Torbiörnsson broke 25 years of silence to reveal that he knew in advance of "Hansen"'s connection to the Sandinistas. He reported that he was introduced to the bomber in Managua by the Chief of Sandinista intelligence".
However in a 31 July 1993 article by Isabel Hilton in a UK newspaper that was reputable at the time, The Independent, "Nicaraguan bomb plot thickens as the killer is named: Isabel Hilton meets a survivor of the jungle blast - still seeking the truth nine years on", it states that Torbiörnsson had already admitted this, if not the specific identity of the Sandinista contact in 1993: "After the bombing, Torbiornsson told investigators that he had first met Hansen six weeks before the bombing, when they stayed in the same hotel in Costa Rica. Recently, however, after nearly nine years' silence, Torbiornsson admitted that he had seen Hansen in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua in the company of a known Sandinista counter-intelligence agent. When Pastora called his press conference, Torbiornsson agreed to take Hansen along."https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nicaraguan-bomb-plot-thickens-as-the-killer-is-named-isabel-hilton-meets-a-survivor-of-the-jungle-blast-still-seeking-the-truth-nine-years-on-1458409.html
Full article here:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/nicaraguan-bomb-plot-thickens-as-the-killer-is-named-isabel-hilton-meets-a-survivor-of-the-jungle-blast-still-seeking-the-truth-nine-years-on-1458409.html
146.199.247.161 (talk) 10:55, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not 2009 but 1993 according to a reputable newspaper article