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Over the past three months, two historic figures of the Sandinista National Liberation Front\u2014the former FSLN National Directorate member Bayardo Arce<\/a> and retired General \u00c1lvaro Baltodano\u2014have been purged by Daniel Ortega\u2019s wife and \u201cco-president,\u201d Rosario Murillo, and are now in prison. A third, former intelligence agent and national security advisor N\u00e9stor Moncada Lau<\/a>, known as the \u201cguardian of the dictatorship\u2019s secrets,\u201d is also detained on Murillo\u2019s orders. <\/p>\n\n

In fact, since Ortega returned to power in January 2007, Murillo has overseen the political decapitation of those closest and most loyal to him, gradually replacing them with her own loyalists and consolidating her dominance within the regime\u2019s inner circle.<\/p>\n\n

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The first to fall from grace was Dionisio \u201cNicho\u201d Marenco, mayor of Managua from 2004 to 2008, a key political operator for Ortega while he was in the opposition. He was also the architect of the opening of economic relations with Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s Venezuela, which later became a pillar of Ortega\u2019s regime. In November 2007, Murillo labeled Marenco a \u201ctraitor\u201d for criticizing aspects of presidential management, and after leaving office, he retired from public life. <\/p>\n\n

The same fate befell retired Colonel Lenin Cerna, a former prison companion of Daniel Ortega in the 1970s and former director of the General Directorate of State Security during the revolutionary government in the 1980s. After retiring from the army in 1999, Cerna was appointed Secretary of Organization of the FSLN in the opposition and continued in that role once the party returned to government. In 2011, he was removed from his position and expelled from the FSLN Secretariat at El Carmen, the headquarters of the party-state-family, on Murillo\u2019s orders. <\/p>\n\n

During Ortega\u2019s first two terms, First Lady Rosario Murillo officially held only the largely ceremonial role of coordinator of the nonexistent \u201cCouncil of Communication and Citizenship,\u201d tasked with controlling the media. In practice, however, she quickly gained dominant political influence.<\/p>\n\n

After the 2016 presidential election, Murillo became Daniel Ortega\u2019s vice president, placing herself in the constitutional line of succession. The April 2018 protests challenged Ortega\u2019s grip on power, but the regime responded with brutal police and paramilitary repression that left over 350 dead, thousands detained, and established a police state that remains in place. <\/p>\n\n

In November 2021, Ortega and Murillo were re-elected in elections without any political competition, with all seven opposition presidential aspiring candidates jailed and the sole opposition party outlawed. <\/p>\n\n

Rosario Murillo\u2019s dynastic succession has advanced by de facto means as Daniel Ortega\u2019s health declines, with the regime consolidating power through an increasingly authoritarian radicalization. The political purges across the state, party, police, and military reflect Murillo\u2019s paranoia and insecurity, as well as her urgent drive to place cadres loyal to her\u2014and not to Ortega\u2014into the regime\u2019s chain of command. <\/p>\n\n

In November 2022, General Commissioner Adolfo Marenco, director of the National Police\u2019s intelligence and investigations, was removed and arrested. In February 2023, former Vice President and ex-army chief Omar Halleslevens was ousted from his offices.<\/p>\n\n

In October 2023, Murillo carried out a major purge of the Supreme Court of Justice, beginning with the de facto removal of CSJ President Alba Luz Ramos and continuing with a sweeping dismissal of judges, magistrates, and more than 1,000 court officials.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

On May 19, 2024, Humberto Ortega Saavedra, Daniel Ortega\u2019s brother, former member of the FSLN National Directorate, and ex-commander of the Sandinista Popular Army, told Infobae that in Ortega\u2019s absence \u201can election should be called,\u201d as there were no \u201csuccessors in power.\u201d That same night, police raided his home and placed him under de facto house arrest. Ortega would die four months later, isolated in a military hospital, having declared himself a \u201cpolitical prisoner.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

In June 2024, Finance Minister Iv\u00e1n Acosta\u2014considered the state\u2019s \u201cmanager\u201d and previously loyal to Ortega\u2014fell from favor, accused of \u201cunauthorized corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The year 2025 began with the fall of Commissioner General Horacio Rocha,<\/a> “minister advisor on security issues”, ironically the executor of Murillo\u2019s earlier purges against police officer Dionisio Marenco, magistrate Ramos, and retired General Humberto Ortega, among others.<\/p>\n\n

In February 2025, a new Constitution came into effect, designed as a tailor-made framework for Rosario Murillo. It established the figure of a \u201cco-presidency,\u201d with a \u201cco-president\u201d and a \u201cco-presidentess,\u201d legally securing Murillo\u2019s succession in the event of Ortega\u2019s absence, though the political succession remains unsettled. <\/p>\n\n

The purge of Ortega\u2019s last loyalists\u2014including retired General \u00c1lvaro Baltodano, secretly sentenced in prison for \u201ctreason against the homeland,\u201d and presidential economic advisor Bayardo Arce, who, alongside Baltodano, had been the main operator of Ortega\u2019s alliance with major private-sector business leaders from 2009 to 2018\u2014has sown unease and uncertainty among the \u201chistoric Sandinistas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

“Rosario Murillo’s guillotine could fall on anyone,”<\/a> dozens of Sandinistas and public officials told Confidencial.digital,<\/a> speaking from exile under protection of their identities.<\/p>\n\n

Rosario Murillo is poised to inherit Daniel Ortega\u2019s power, but the deep unrest caused by the purge within the regime\u2019s own ranks raises serious questions about the political viability of a dynastic succession. <\/p>\n\n

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