Of the 10 prosecutors of the Public Ministry sanctioned by the United States Department of State, the name of Marling Castro Rodríguez stands out, the assistant to the attorney general of the Republic Ana Julia Guido and director of the institution’s gender secretariat. She is also the coordinator of the Sandinista Leadership Council (CLS), according to former prosecutors and officials of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) consulted by Article 66.
The United States assures that the Sandinista prosecutor “undermined democratic processes or institutions by exercising procedural discretion to present false charges in order to imprison opponents of the regime in the period prior to the national elections.”
Marling Castro participated in an opposition contest for new prosecutors, but was postponed, according to two of our sources. She then returned to compete in another contest, but this time it was private and she did pass, that’s when Guido, being the deputy attorney general, recruited her as her assistant. From the beginning, she has played a “spy” role in the Prosecutor’s Office, according to two former prosecutors who knew her and worked with her.
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“Marling (Castro) has been an assistant to Attorney General Ana Julia Guido since she was Deputy Attorney General. She participated in the opposition contest when they were real and not because of political affinity, but she was deferred. When the prosecutor Guido assumed the title of the Prosecutor’s Office, she participated in a private contest to be a prosecutor and she did pass. She went through an inspection area,” a former prosecutor told this media outlet.
«She competed as a prosecutor and did not stay. At the level of the Prosecutor’s Office, she is the one who organizes all party activities, she is the link between the officials and the attorney general. She was the one who kept watch over the prosecutors and then reported to her boss Ana Julia Guido », said a former prosecutor who knew her when she started in the Public Ministry.
One of the sources explained that she is the one in charge of organizing the marches, the participation of the institution in the withdrawal, when they went to take turns at the roundabouts, and all the political-partisan activities of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). .
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«I organized fairs where they sold food to collect money for the party. He was even selling FSLN t-shirts. He is a person who was always in spy mode with Public Ministry officials who thought differently or was scrutinizing the personal activities of prosecutors. He passed reports to the attorney general. He organized the CLS. He was inviting prosecutors from the Public Ministry to attend party activities, he was dedicated to everything of the party in the institution », he explained.
“He was always looking for ways to throw dirt on people who did not have a party card and because of the reports he presented to the attorney general, some officials were relegated,” he added.
His mother was fired from the CSJ
Marling Castro Rodríguez’s mother is Julia Rodríguez, one of the first judges fired by the CSJ in 2018. She worked as a judge in the Matagalpa court that certified sentences. According to the former official of the Judiciary, Yader Morazán, one of the largest roadblocks in Matagalpa was in front of the judge’s house and that was the reason for her dismissal, they linked her to providing support to the young people who were at the roadblock . She is now exiled in the United States and is a political asylum seeker along with one of her children, brother of the prosecutor sanctioned by the US State.
“While she (Marling) is acting to persecute and criminalize people who think differently, her mother is asking for political asylum in the United States. She occupies an administrative position very close to Ana Julia Guido. Whoever is next to the attorney general has to be a person very committed to political party activities. Her role is administrative”, Morazán pointed out.
