The dictator Daniel Ortega appointed his father-in-law, Commissioner General Francisco Díaz Madriz, as director of the National Police for six more years.
In this way, the relative of the dictatorial family now has 2 consecutive terms in office, after succeeding Commissioner General Aminta Granera in mid-2018.
Through Presidential Agreement 206-2024, published in the Gaceta, Official Gazette of this Friday, December 27, the Sandinista leader resolves to “appoint the first commissioner Francisco Javier Díaz Madriz, general director of the National Police, as of February 25 of the year two thousand twenty-five, who will remain in office as of that date.
Díaz’s extension comes after the recent reform of the Police Law that extends the police chief’s term to six years, although the presidential agreement does not specify it.
Díaz Madriz, who until Ortega came to power in 2007 was not in the line of succession of command of the Police, was lucky that his daughter Blanca Díaz married Maurice Ortega Murillo, one of the tyrants’ sons. Since January 10, 2012, the families were related and that was the blessing for Díaz to rise so quickly within the institution.
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In this way, the police officer who was barely commissioned in 2007, was promoted and promoted successively until he was placed on the edge of the general direction of the institution.
In 2018, in the midst of a repressive escalation against popular demonstrations, Ortega finally appointed his father-in-law as general director, removing Aminta Granera.
Last November, the dictator promoted a total reform, disguised as partial, to the Political Constitution of Nicaragua in which, among other points, it extends the presidential term to six years and establishes that the Executive, which will be called the Presidency, will be shared by a co-president and a co-president.
On December 21, Ortega also confirmed for six more years in office the commander in chief of the Army, Army General Julio César Avilés, who is accused of destroying the professionalization process that the military institution had been developing since 1990.
The same reform indicates that both the Army and the Police are directly subordinate to the Presidency of the Republic, understood as Ortega and Murillo.
