The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo ordered this Tuesday, October 22, to raid the home of Lenín Cerna, former head of the General Directorate of State Security (DGSE), recognized as one of the most fearsome operators of Sandinismo during the decade. of the 80s, and who was identified as one of the dictator Ortega’s most trusted characters.
Article 66 received images in which the Police of the Ortega dictatorship can be seen outside Cerna’s home, located at kilometer 11 of the Masaya Highway, 700 meters to the west, near Casa España, in Managua.
As can be seen in the images, several police patrols arrived at the house of the retired colonel and former organizational secretary of the FSLN, including a white van, with a police emblem and police lights, which it is not possible to identify exactly which specialty of the FSLN. institution belongs. There is also movement of uniformed agents, men in civilian clothes and private vehicles.
Neighbors of the former Casa España recreation center confirmed the police presence in the house of the former Sandinista strongman.
Another source who knows Cerna confirmed to us that he went to the area to find out exactly what is happening. «Lenín’s (Cerna) house is about 500 meters from the entrance, from the gate, and right now what you see is the entrance. The police are lying there. There are several patrol cars, police with vests, and plainclothes vans. That’s what you see, but they are going after him,” a Sandinista source told us.
An FSLN source, consulted by this media outlet about the impact of this action against Cerna, said under anonymity that it is “a serious fact, because it reveals the voracity of Rosario (Murillo) over everything that represents the old cadres.” of the (Sandinista) Front.
Furthermore, he says, “this occurs weeks after everything they did to Humberto (Ortega), and Lenín and Humberto had communication and were friends, which denotes that there is an act of political revenge for what Humberto did to them in his last moments.” days, by sending an audio to Confidencial and denouncing his imprisonment.
Lenín Cerna, in addition to having been the head of State Security in the 1980s, was a man loyal to Daniel Ortega. In the 90s and 2000s he was the Organization Secretary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). In these tasks, he took charge of the organization of the so-called “Electoral Commands” of Sandinismo, whose structures were in charge of “civilian” operations to guarantee the logistics and protection of the vote in the hard years of Sandinismo in the opposition.
In 2011, Cerna was beheaded by Rosario Murillo. Not only did they strip him of his position in the FSLN, but they humiliated him from the Secretariat of the red and black party, which operated and operates in the same house as Ortega and Murillo, in the El Carmen neighborhood of Managua, where they have also installed the government house
The US sanction
Although Cerna seemed to be “low profile” after his departure from the FSLN organizational secretariat, on October 24, 2022, the Office of Asset Control of the United States Department of the Treasury He sanctioned him.
According to Washington, the reason for “marking” Cerna on that list was his closeness to the dictator Daniel Ortega and his past as a torturer. Furthermore, after his defenestration carried out by Rosario Murillo, Ortega would have appointed Cerna since 2013 as political coordinator of the Judiciary and in those years he would also have delegated him as judicial “super magistrate” to serve the departments of León and Chinandega.
