 card number three number three Enrique Bermondes Enrique Bermondes Bermondes Contra commander Enrique Bermondes card number three followed in the Coralgrim Revolution colonel Enrique Bermondes who has been Anastasio Somoza's military attaché in Washington DC relocated to Guatemala via Miami where he joined forces with Ricardo Elchino Louis known as Somoza's hatchet man Louis was a brutal torturer who was later implicated in the murder of El Salvador's Archbishop Romero. Together Bermondes and Louis formed the September 15th Legion the nucleus around which other exiled Nicaraguan national guardsmen began to collect. Sandoval Alorcon, godfather of the Guatemalan and Salvadoran death squads provided safe houses for Bermondes and his men and sent many of them with Louis to Argentina for training. When the Reagan administration came to power in early 1981 Bermondes and the Legion moved to Tegucigalpa which was fast becoming the central Contra center of Contra activities with the help of Argentina Argentine and Israeli military advisors the Contra set up camps along the border and began staging terrorist strikes into Nicaragua. The CIA convinced the leaders of the desperate Contra groups to organize a united front under one command through Bermudez had though Bermudez had already gained a reputation for corruption his Washington connection secured his position as military commander of the Nicaraguan democratic forces FDN which he has held despite repeated attempts by other Contra leaders to oust him so at the time he was still there Enrique, look at his face, Enrique Bermudez