The Nicaraguan regime, through presidential agreement 113-2024, released on July 23 in the official gazette The Gazettedefenestrated the Ortega Arlette Cristina Marenco Meza. He removed her from her position as Deputy Minister General of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Marenco Meza held the position of vice-chancellor for eight years, after the Ortega administration awarded her that position in the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry through presidential agreement 01-2017, announced in January 2017.
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In addition, she was removed from her position as “Minister Advisor to the President of the Republic for International Relations,” which she held since July 2019, according to presidential agreement 111-2019 that was disclosed in La Gaceta.
House arrest
The officialization of the removal of Marenco Meza from her posts occurred five days after it was leaked, through employees of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, that the Ortega official was under house arrest, after not being seen at the headquarters of that institution since the second week of this month.
Marenco Meza, in addition to holding positions of trust granted by the Ortega government, is the wife of Reynaldo Vidaurre Benavidez, an employee of the National Electric Transmission Company (Enatrel) and former official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry, who, according to statements published in independent media, is detained at the Directorate of Judicial Assistance, known as El Chipote, under investigation for alleged “unauthorized corruption activities.”