... seminarian, Néstor had first established ties with the National Liberation Army ( eln ), in the late 1960s, and then enlisted in the guerrilla movement of Teoponte, in 1970, taking the nom de guerre “Francisco,” after the radical mendicant from Assisi who had rejected all worldly and ecclesiastical comforts...

... in the guerrilla movement of Teoponte, in 1970, taking the nom de guerre “Francisco,” after the radical mendicant from Assisi who had rejected all worldly and ecclesiastical comforts. The Teoponte experience was for a long time seen as an isolated local effort by idealistic university students of the middle class...