After several failures in trying to place its subjects in the position of Secretary General of the Central American Integration System (SICA), the regime is betting on former Foreign Minister Denis Moncada to obtain the position. This would be the third shortlist of candidates presented. The previous two were rejected.
In addition to Moncada, the trio is completed by Sandinista deputy Arling Patricia Alonso Gómez and the Minister of the Family, Johana Flores, according to the list sent by the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, to his colleagues from the SICA member states.
The General Secretariat of SICA has been vacant since in mid-November 2023, the Sandinista lawyer Werner Vargas was resigned by the regime from the position for the period 2022-2026, for which he was appointed as a proposal from Nicaragua.
An extraordinary meeting of the SICA Council of Foreign Ministers will take place on Friday, November 15, at 10 in the morning via virtual transmission to discuss the issue, according to unofficial information.
Moncada has been within the Sandinista power circle, he is a figure that Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo consider loyal to their party structure. He has defended before the international community the violent and bloody actions of the presidential marriage.
Moncada was born in Murra, Nueva Segovia on November 28, 1948, by profession a lawyer and diplomat. He was also the founder of the Sandinista Popular Army that was born in 1979 after the fall of the Somoza dictatorship.
He graduated as a lawyer and notary public from the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN) in 1976 and completed a master’s degree in Public Law at the National University of Barcelona in 1996.
He served as Executive Assistant to the Vice Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff from 1985 to 1987 and as General Command (Auditor General of the Armed Forces) from 1983 to 1985. He was also second head of the Directorate of Military Counter Intelligence in the office of the General Joaquín Cuadra, in 1984.
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During the 90s, Moncada was part of the group that acquitted the bodyguards of retired General Humberto Ortega, accused of murdering the young Jean Paul Genie, so with that evidence, he established himself as loyal to the Ortega family.
Moncada retired from public life with the rank of brigadier general of the Army in 2003 and returned with a position as a diplomat under the new government of Daniel Ortega, in 2007.
Moncada has been decorated 15 times by the Sandinista dictatorship, including the Order of the Nicaraguan Army. He also received decorations from the Castro dictatorship and the leftist government of Mexico.
Moncada “the Great” at the service of Murillo
In 2017, Moncada was awarded the position of Chancellor of the Republic by the Nicaraguan dictatorship for his work within the OAS in delaying resolutions against the Chavista dictatorship that violently repressed anti-government demonstrations in Venezuela.
In 2018, Moncada became a laughing stock at the OAS during a session of ambassadors representing the States. After the repression of the protests against the Ortega dictatorship, when he ran out of time during his speech, the chancellor asked for more time, stating that by not participating in the previous sessions “he had saved minutes”, which generated ridicule on social networks.
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It was Moncada who in 2021 announced the departure of Nicaragua from the regional body, after the disposition of Sandinism, in the face of the constant resolutions that condemned the regime, after the violent repression and violation of Human Rights in the country.
Moncada leaves the chancellery
On September 6, Moncada was dismissed from the General Chancellery of the Republic, as was published by the regime in La Gaceta, Official Gazette, Presidential Agreement 160-2024, which, in article one, orders, “appoint Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres as minister advisor to the president of the Republic for Policies and International Affairs.
The same agreement, in its article two, establishes that, with the new appointment, Moncada Colindres is automatically dismissed as “Minister of Foreign Affairs”, contained in Presidential Agreement 01-2017, dated January 11, 2017. ».
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The regime claims that Moncada is removed due to “health problems” and in the same Gazette immediately names a successor, Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke Whitaker. Jaentschke had already been rejected by the SICA chancellors as Secretary General of the Central American entity.
