{"id":171804,"date":"2025-08-02T18:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/police-capture-rodolfo-castillo-payin-no-2-of-lenin-cerna\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T18:40:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T00:40:20","slug":"police-capture-rodolfo-castillo-payin-no-2-of-lenin-cerna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/police-capture-rodolfo-castillo-payin-no-2-of-lenin-cerna\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Capture Rodolfo Castillo \u201cPay\u00edn,\u201d No. 2 of Len\u00edn Cerna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The police under the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have arrested retired Army Colonel Rodolfo Castillo (\u201cPay\u00edn\u201d), who for over three decades has been one of Len\u00edn Cerna\u2019s main collaborators in espionage and political intelligence operations. He served in the General Directorate of State Security (DGSE) of the Interior Ministry during the 1980s, the Army\u2019s Defense Information Directorate (DID) in the early 1990s, and in the FSLN Secretariat between 2004 and 2011. <\/p>\n\n<p>The former military officer was detained while at a special viewing platform during the horse festival in honor of Santo Domingo de Guzm\u00e1n, located in front of Friday\u2019s restaurant on the Masaya Highway, on August 1, 2025, in Managua. So far, authorities have not disclosed where he is being held or whether there are any charges against him.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nbsp-quien-es-payin-castillo-nbsp\"> <strong>Who is \u201cPay\u00edn\u201d Castillo? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n<p>In 1974, Rodolfo \u201cPay\u00edn\u201d Castillo<a href=\"https:\/\/memoriasdelaluchasandinista.org\/view_stories.php?id=45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> co-founded the Sandinista Student Association (AES) in Matagalpa<\/a> along with other young activists. He later took part in the so-called \u201cChildren\u2019s Insurrection\u201d in Matagalpa\u2014a student and youth mobilization against the National Guard that took place on August 28, 1978.<\/p>\n\n<p>He was also a member of the Revolutionary Student Front (FER) and participated in several Sandinista guerrilla operations, including bank robberies. <\/p>\n\n<p>After the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he received training in Germany and Bulgaria as part of the first generation of cadres to join the General Directorate of State Security (DGSE) of the Interior Ministry. He worked under Len\u00edn Cerna in State Security throughout the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n<p>In 1990, when a contingent of the former DGSE was integrated into the newly created Defense Information Directorate (DID) of the Army, Castillo joined this new Army unit under Len\u00edn Cerna\u2019s leadership, eventually attaining the rank of colonel.<\/p>\n\n<p>His final post in the Army was as military attach\u00e9 in Spain between 2000 and 2003. After retiring from the Army, he resumed work with Len\u00edn Cerna, who at that point was the Secretary of Organization for the FSLN, in charge of the Electoral Command structures.<\/p>\n\n<p>The National Secretariat for Territorial Organization was \u201ca little-known structure, but the one responsible for mobilizing the FSLN grassroots,\u201d said a security analyst interviewed by <strong>CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>In this parallel structure to power, &#8220;they managed information, files and archives and important members of the FSLN,&#8221; as a kind of &#8220;personnel and cadre management&#8221; of the party, the expert said.<\/p>\n\n<p>Within the FSLN Secretariat, \u201cPay\u00edn\u201d shared the second-in-command position with Vicente \u201cEl Perro\u201d Ch\u00e1vez, both reporting to Len\u00edn Cerna, \u201cin a structure that controlled political and electoral mobilization, unions, and paramilitaries,\u201d the source said. <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cPay\u00edn\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/principal\/los-anillos-del-poder-y-los-operadores-de-ortega-y-murillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ousted from the FSLN Secretariat in April 2011<\/a> by orders of Rosario Murillo, along with his boss Len\u00edn Cerna, following a power struggle between Cerna and fellow former DGSE officer Nestor Moncada Lau. This came after a corruption complaint about the FSLN Secretariat\u2019s links to the General Directorate of Revenue, which also led to the dismissal of its head, Walter Porras.<\/p>\n\n<p>After Cerna, Castillo, and Ch\u00e1vez were expelled from the FSLN Secretariat, Murillo handed political control to Moncada Lau and eventually to Fidel Moreno, who was appointed Secretary of Organization of the FSLN. <\/p>\n\n<p>Following the 2018 crisis triggered by the April Rebellion, Cerna and his team\u2014including Castillo, Ch\u00e1vez, and other political operatives\u2014were reinstated in 2019 as part of an analysis and intelligence unit. However, Murillo kept them sidelined from any real influence within Ortega\u2019s power circle.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nbsp-su-unica-y-ultima-declaracion-publica\"> His only and last public statement<\/h2>\n\n<p>Originally from Matagalpa, \u201cPay\u00edn\u201d Castillo is a figure little known in the media. On August 28, 2019, marking the 41st anniversary of the so-called \u201cChildren\u2019s Insurrection\u201d in Matagalpa, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.el19digital.com\/articulos\/ver\/titulo:93588-matagalpa-conmemora-el-41-aniversario-de-la-insurreccion-de-los-ninos-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recalled his participation in that historic event.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cFrom that open conflict, with the clear vision of those children who back then embodied a spirit of resistance, for both the generations before us and those still to come,\u201d he said in remarks to official media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police under the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo have arrested retired Army Colonel Rodolfo Castillo (\u201cPay\u00edn\u201d), who for over three decades has been one of Len\u00edn Cerna\u2019s main collaborators in espionage and political intelligence operations. 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