The political secretary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in the department of León, Evertz Delgadillo, was dismissed on November 24 on direct orders from Vice President Rosario Murillo, after 15 years in office.
A source close to the party told Voces en Libertad that the fall of the political secretary was due to the supposed results of the “municipal electoral farce” were not satisfactory to the high hierarchy of the FSLN, for which —even— they asked him to hand over the keys to party office.
“They told him that they were not satisfied with the work in the elections, there was no good management in the municipal elections in the ten mayoralties of that department. Murillo did not like the results,” said the source quoted by Voces en Libertad.
The last time Delgadillo was seen at a public activity was on November 17, while he accompanied the mayor-elect, Guissella Lacayo, on a walk to greet the merchants after inaugurating the shopping nights of the Christmas and weekend seasons. of year.
Long-standing Sandinista
Delgadillo is a Sandinista militant with a long history. In the eighties he served as a leader of the Sandinista Youth July 19 (JS19) in the municipality of El Sauce, where he is from and where he also served as mayor in 2005. Later he was promoted to political vice-secretary of the department of León, which is why he moved his residence to the university city.
In 2007, when the FSLN returned to power, Carlos Fonseca Teran (son of the founder Carlos Fonseca Amador), who worked as political secretary of the FSLN in León, was promoted to the vice-secretary of International Relations of the party and Delgadillo was promoted naturally as departmental political secretary.
Those who know him assure that Delgadillo —even— commanded more than the mayor Roger Gurdián and the delegates of the institutions, for which reason his dismissal caused surprise in the West.
In front of the mobs in 2018
Delgadillo is remembered for directing, in 2018, a the mobs who attacked a group of elderly people who were protesting against the reforms of the Nicaraguan Social Security Institute (INSS), on Calle de Ronsa, in the university city.
Some young FSLN dissidents, who participated as mobs that day, claim that Delgadillo was Murillo’s link to organize the repression in León.
“I am scared (because of his dismissal) because he never said no to Rosario Murillo. She was his confidante so that Murillo’s will be carried out in the department of León; and now he dismisses him,” says Paul Castillo, a former member of the Sandinista Youth, who resigned after feeling compelled to attack the protesters.
According to Castillo, the political secretaries experience constant stress, because they have to enforce Murillo’s will in the department they attend. The slightest mistake that Murillo considers has been made could cost them their job and, of course, his life, “because they won’t leave you alone.”
The source also indicated that there are high chances that the Deputy José Ramón Sarria Morales, 45, who has been in office for three consecutive terms, takes Delgadillo’s place.
