The Ortega dictatorship ordered General Commissioner Adolfo Marenco, head of the Directorate of Police Investigation and Political Intelligence of the National Police, to retire. The decision was made known through a presidential agreement published on Friday in La Gaceta.
Marenco was considered the “eyes and ears” of the presidential couple and the fourth most powerful person in the country, behind only Ortega, Murillo and Néstor Moncada Lau.
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Marenco was a key piece in the police state imposed in the country since the 2018 social revolt that was repressed at the point of bullets and imprisonment for citizens who decided to demonstrate against the regime.
Adolfo Marenco was branded as the “sinister arm” and “shadow operator” of the repressive dictatorship strategy in the Police because he had access to and collected any type of information necessary for said strategy against the opposition or the Sandinistas themselves, according to a published profile. by Confidencial in 2020.
The administration of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo made the “donation” of land official for the Sandinista mayors of San José de Bocay, in Jinotega; from Posoltega, in Chinandega; Santo Tomás, in Chontales, and El Tuma-La Dalia, in Matagalpa, to carry out the “Bismarck Martínez” housing project.
On the six plots of land handed over to the communes, the construction of social housing for supporters of the Daniel Ortega regime will be carried out, a project initiated after the repression against the citizen protests of 2018 and which bears the name of “Bismarck Martínez ».
The project created by Ortega has a strong propaganda component. The name alludes to the Sandinista militant Bismarck Martínez, who according to the Government was assassinated after being kidnapped on June 29, 2018, at a roadblock at the San José School, in Jinotepe, Carazo, during the civic protests repressed with bullets by police and paramilitaries. of the regime.
The Nicaraguan president decided to make another change in his foreign files and remove his ambassador to Canada, Maurizio Carlo Alberto Gelli, and send him as Nicaragua’s diplomatic representative in Spain, which was signed through a presidential agreement released this Friday.
The now representative in Spain is the son of Licio Gelli, former leader of the Masonic logic Propaganda Due (P2), who is accused of relations with the mafia and Cosa Nostra, the bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano, anti-communist agent during the Cold War, work of conspiracy during the eighties in Argentina and financial scandals in Uruguay.
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The journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro will receive the recognition on behalf of the former Sandinista guerrilla and now a political prisoner of the Nicaraguan regime Dora María Téllez. The prize is awarded by the Sorbonne Nouvelle University of France.
The Sorbonne Nouvelle announced last June that its academic council decided to award Téllez an honorary doctorate for “his exceptional political and scientific career.” During the delivery of the recognition, activities will be carried out in solidarity with the political prisoners of Nicaragua, including a concert offered by Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy and Jandir Rodríguez.
Dora María Téllez was violently and arbitrarily detained on June 13, 2021. In parallel, the Ortega Police arrested other leaders of the Unión Democrática Renovadora (Unamos), including Víctor Hugo Tinoco, Ana Margarita Vijil, Suyen Barahona and Hugo Torres, who died under police custody on February 12, 2022.
In the first 11 months of 2022, 57 women and girls were murdered, according to the Observatorio Voces of the feminist organization Catholics for the Right to Decide.
48 of the 57 femicides were committed in the national territory and nine were perpetrated abroad: three in Costa Rica, two in Panama and four in Guatemala, Central American countries where entire families have emigrated due to repression.
This day is commemorated in memory of the murder of three Mirabal sisters, on November 25, 1960, by order of the ruler and dictator Rafael Trujillo, in the Dominican Republic. Nicaraguan feminists compare Trujillo to Daniel Ortega.
