The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega ordered the retirement of Commissioner General Adolfo Marenco, head of the Directorate of Police Investigation and Political Intelligence of the National Police, according to presidential agreement No. 177-2022, published in The Official Gazette Gazette No. 222 this Friday, November 25, 2022. Marenco was considered the “eyes and ears” of the presidential couple and the fourth most powerful person in the country, only behind Ortega, Murillo and Néstor Moncada Lau.
But his power seems to have come to an end in the police institution headed by First Commissioner Francisco Díaz, the father-in-law of the dictatorial couple who rules with an iron fist in Nicaragua. According to security experts, Marenco was a key piece in the police state that Ortega and Murillo have imposed in the country since the social revolt of 2018 that were repressed with blood and fire by the Police at the service of the regime.
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Adolfo Marenco was branded as the “sinister arm” and “shadow operator” of the repressive dictatorship strategy in the Police because he had access to and collected any type of information necessary for said strategy against the opposition or the Sandinistas themselves, according to a published profile. by Confidencial in 2020.
The retired general commissioner joined the Sandinista Police in 1985, during the first Sandinista dictatorship in the 1980s. Once in the institution, a friend of his father took him to the Juigalpa police station so that he would not enlist in the Patriotic Military Service. He later served in other police units in the fifth region, which included Bluefields until the mid-1990s, where, according to sources consulted by the newspaper, Marenco developed a “special vocation” for the investigation.
Their expertise acquired in his years of service allowed him to climb the police ranks and become deputy commissioner and deputy chief of the departmental unit of Madriz and in 1999 he was appointed deputy police chief of Masaya, where he is from. A year later he was appointed head of one of the police investigation departments of the Police. Marenco was in charge of the department that investigated and maintained secret surveillance of highly dangerous criminals.
In 2009, the retired general commissioner was appointed as head of the Executive Secretariat of the Police because they needed someone who had strict control and order. Adolfo Marenco had those qualities.
He also ventured into the beautiful sport of Nicaragua through the Nicaraguan Baseball Federation (Feniba) where he became President. In that position, according to sports journalists, he was a person who dodged criticism and got upset.
In 2012 he was promoted to general commissioner and resigned from his position at Feniba. That same year he assumed the Police Intelligence Directorate, it was in that position that he had an approach with Néstor Moncada Lau, security adviser to the dictator Daniel Ortega. In that police unit, he stopped prosecuting criminal actions to go after information of a political nature for seven years, in 2015 when he assumed the headquarters of Police Intelligence and Political Investigation.
In 2017, Ortega appointed him in charge of the National Council against Organized Crime, a position that allows him access to the Financial Analysis Unit (UAF), the Superintendency of Banks (SIBOIF), the General Directorate of Revenue (DGI), the Ministry of the Interior (Migob) and other institutions, making it the almighty of information in Nicaragua.
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Its police unit monitors the media and journalists, the leaders that emerged in April 2018. As a result of the sociopolitical crisis, its staff was in charge of infiltrating trusted and subordinate agents in the search for key information to carry out the clean-up operation and identify the spontaneous leaders of the social revolt.
In February 2019, during a meeting with the bases of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the former Minister of the Interior, Ana Isabel Morales, confirmed that the Nicaraguan Army and the Police carried out espionage work against those who opposed Ortega.
