The coordinator of the Sandinista Youth (JS), the youth arm of the ruling party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), in the municipality of San Juan de Nicaragua, department of Río San Juan, Moisés Antonio Miranda Valverde, He also turned out to be a drug distributor in that town in the south of the country.
According to the publication made by the Sandinista Police itself, in its weekly report, which was presented by Commissioner General Jaime Vanegas, Inspector General of the Police, Miranda Valverde is part of a group of 23 criminals who were captured for different crimes in several municipalities. of the country, in the week between Monday, October 7, and Sunday, October 13, 2024.
According to the environmental activist and president of the Río Foundation, Amaru Ruiz, who has information directly from the area, the leader of the Sandinista Youth Moisés Antonio Miranda Valverde was captured on Sunday, October 13, in San Carlos, Río San Juan, when it was transported in a panga (passenger boat) that came from San Juan de Nicaragua.
«The information we have is that he was detained by the Police carrying a few grams of cocaine that he transported in some containers of Zepol (a brand of cold ointment). He was coordinator of the Sandinista Youth in San Juan de Nicaragua and at some point he was a worker at the Airport Administration Company in San Juan de Nicaragua. “I don’t know if it was still active because that airport was not in operation, or at least it had been reduced,” said the environmental defender.
The case of this Sandinista leader from Río San Juan involved in drug crimes is not the first. In June 2021, the lawyer Melvin Antonio Vargas Fuentesoriginally from Río San Juan, and who was known to be a “high profile” member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party in that department, was captured by the Police and was accused along with another subject named Óscar Lorenzo Rodríguez Blandón, of organized crime and money laundering.
According to a press release from the Police, published after the arrest of Vargas Fuentes, which was published on social networks, but which was not posted on the institution’s website, Vargas Fuentes and Rodríguez Blandón were captured in Río San Juan, seizing seven packages with adhesive wrappers that contained $145,680, those they had hidden in a panga.
“Criminalistics investigators applied the Scintrex Trace technique (cocaine particle detector) on occupied money and panga, as well as on the dorsal palms of imprisoned criminals Óscar Lorenzo Rodríguez Blandón and Melvin Antonio Vargas Fuentes, with positive results for cocaine particles,” it stated. part of the Police press release.
Sources consulted by Article 66 At that time they reported that Melvin Vargas Fuentes was for many years the lawyer and departmental organizational secretary of the Sandinista Front in Río San Juan. “In all the cases of the Front, it was he who showed his face,” they told us.
They also pointed out that in 2010, Vargas was named president of the Departmental Electoral Council of Río San Juan, a position he held until 2019. Other information that was known about this Ortega lawyer is that he owned a gas station in the municipality of San Miguelito, where it originates from.
As expected, six days after the presentation of that Sandinista official as a criminal and money launderer, The Police released him and his friends and family received him as a hero in Río San Juan.
It remains to be seen if the dictatorship decides to go all the way with Moisés Antonio Miranda Valverde, the leader of the JS in San Juan de Nicaragua and a new prisoner for drugs by the dictatorship, or if, like Vargas Fuentes, they send him home to continue. working for the Sandinista party and in his adventures in drug dealing with permission from the party structure that controls the Police and the country’s justice system.
