Qualla: La Penca Bombing https://qualla.com/la-penca-bombing en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: La Penca Bombing https://qualla.com/la-penca-bombing La Penca Bombing: Introduction https://qualla.com/la-penca-bombing/ The journalists had traveled all day -- by vehicle across Costa Rica, then by canoe up the San Juan River -- to reach a guerrilla outpost called La Penca on the Nicaraguan side of the border. It was May 30, 1984, and the former Sandinista hero turned Contra rebel commander Eden Pastora had called a press conference in the jungle. The reporters arrived after dark. Pastora wanted to wait until morning, but the questions started anyway, and soon the camera crews had crowded around a chest-high table in the main room of a wooden hut on stilts. Among them was a man carrying a stolen Danish passport in the name of Per Anker Hansen. He guarded his aluminum camera case with unusual zeal, wrapping the unwieldy box in plastic. At some point he placed it under the table. Then news footage captured him gesturing at his camera as if it had malfunctioned, and he left the room. Seconds later, the hut exploded.

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/4/4/c/la-penca-bombing-wp/d44c-la-penca-bombing-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Penca Bombing: Seven Dead in the Darkness https://qualla.com/la-penca-bombing/ The bomb ripped through the confined space of the hut, killing seven people and seriously wounding a dozen more. Among the dead were American journalist Linda Frazier, Costa Rican cameraman Jorge Quiros, and his assistant Evelio Sequeira, along with four of Pastora's fighters. Pa...

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]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/4/4/c/la-penca-bombing-wp/d44c-la-penca-bombing-a-maze-of-accusations.mp3 0:06 3 full La Penca Bombing: The Bomber Unmasked https://qualla.com/la-penca-bombing/ In 1993, the identity of 'Per Anker Hansen' was revealed. He was not a CIA operative but an Argentine leftist named Vital Roberto Gaguine, who had died in 1989 during a guerrilla attack on a military base in Argentina. The revelation upended the prevailing theory. Then, in 2009, ...

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