{"id":175355,"date":"2025-09-29T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/sin-categoria\/murillo-continues-purge-of-ex-military-retired-general-and-captain-imprisoned\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:24:37","slug":"murillo-continues-purge-of-ex-military-retired-general-and-captain-imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/confidencial.digital\/en\/english\/murillo-continues-purge-of-ex-military-retired-general-and-captain-imprisoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Murillo Continues Purge of Ex-Military: Retired General and Captain Imprisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sources linked to the Penitentiary System confirmed the arrest of two former military officers in La Modelo prison in Tipitapa, where they are under investigation for the alleged crime of \u201ctreason against the homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Those purged are retired General Rodrigo Gonz\u00e1lez Garc\u00eda, arrested in Matagalpa on September 18, 2025, who specialized in Logistics and for years served as head of the Directorate of Doctrine and Teaching; and retired Captain Jorge Danilo Portocarrero Arg\u00fcello, arrested in Jinotepe, who in the 1980s headed the Army\u2019s Audiovisuals Department within the Political Directorate.<\/p>\n\n

In an earlier version of this story, CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> mistakenly identified retired Colonel Noel Portocarrero Arg\u00fcello, brother of Jorge Portocarrero, as one of those detained. We apologize to Noel Portocarrero Arg\u00fcello, who has not been detained or investigated by the authorities. <\/p>\n\n

Retired General Rodrigo Gonz\u00e1lez currently worked as a coffee producer. His last public appearance at an Army event <\/a>was on January 28, 2025, during a ceremony with authorities, business leaders, producers, exporters, merchants, and transport operators from the departments of Matagalpa and Jinotega. <\/p>\n\n

He was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in August 2002, on the same date as current Army chief<\/a> General Julio C\u00e9sar Avil\u00e9s. He retired in 2005. <\/p>\n\n

As for Jorge Danilo Portocarrero Arg\u00fcello, after leaving the Army as a captain in the early 1990s, he spent several decades working as a businessman in advertising and communications companies. He was also a professor at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua). <\/p>\n\n

On August 11, 2023, he was appointed \u201cMinister Counselor with consular functions\u201d at Nicaragua\u2019s Embassy in Cuba. However, four days later his appointment was revoked, according to a ministerial resolution published in La Gaceta on August 15<\/a>. Sources from the Foreign Ministry revealed that Portocarrero declined the post after learning of his appointment. <\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe investigation against the ex-military is part of Compa\u00f1era Rosario\u2019s distrust. She believes that former Army officers are loyal to the comandante and not to her, even though she now exercises co-presidency,\u201d a source linked to the FSLN Secretariat in El Carmen told CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

The Purge of Ex-Military<\/h2>\n\n

Rosario Murillo has led a constant \u201cpolitical decapitation\u201d<\/a> of figures once close and loyal to Ortega, in order to consolidate her own influence within the inner circle of power. Murillo\u2019s \u201cguillotine\u201d has reached high-ranking figures inside the Army. <\/p>\n\n

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Rosario Murillo watches the military during the Nicaraguan Army\u2019s anniversary ceremony, as Daniel Ortega greets General Julio C\u00e9sar Avil\u00e9s. Photo: CCC <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

These are some of the former military officers persecuted, along with Ortega\u2019s \u201cloyalists\u201d who have been purged: <\/p>\n\n

The Persecuted <\/h2>\n\n

Roberto Samcam:<\/strong> Retired Army major, gunned down by hitmen at his home in San Jos\u00e9 on Thursday, June 19, 2025. The investigation into his murder remains open. <\/a> <\/p>\n\n

Carlos Brenes:<\/strong> Retired Army colonel, former political prisoner of the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship in 2018, was arrested again on Friday, August 15, 2025, at his home between Masatepe and Jinotepe. <\/p>\n\n

Tom\u00e1s Maldonado:<\/strong> Retired Army major, became a political prisoner of the dictatorship on August 2, 2018. His \u201ccrime\u201d was praying for the young people manning barricades in Carazo. He spent ten months in prison and was released under the Amnesty Law in June 2019. He died on June 24, 2021. He was the father of Joao Maldonado<\/a>, an opposition youth who survived two assassination attempts in Costa Rica. <\/p>\n\n

Hugo Torres: <\/strong>Retired brigadier general, imprisoned on Ortega\u2019s orders since June 2021, died at age 73 on February 12, 2022, after more than two months during which the dictatorship kept his whereabouts and health condition secret.<\/p>\n\n

An\u00edbal Rivas Reed:<\/strong> Retired captain, sentenced to 50 years in prison in June 2025 for the alleged crime of \u201ctreason against the homeland,\u201d after being held in a state of enforced disappearance for 42 days. <\/p>\n\n

The Purged <\/h2>\n\n

Lenin Cerna Ju\u00e1rez: <\/strong>Retired colonel, former head of State Security in the 1980s, and FSLN organization secretary since 1999, was removed from his post in April 2011. <\/p>\n\n

At the end of July 2025, media outlets reported that Cerna had escaped a police raid on his home. However, police sources told CONFIDENCIAL<\/strong> that the alleged \u201cescape\u201d was false<\/a>, and Cerna was later seen in Managua on August 10, riding in a blue Mercedes Benz driven by a police officer and escorted by a police vehicle. <\/p>\n\n

However, one of Cerna\u2019s main lieutenants, retired colonel Rodolfo Castillo \u201cPay\u00edn\u201d<\/a>, was arrested by police on August 1, 2025, during Managua\u2019s horse parades. Since August 25, he has been under house arrest, under police surveillance, and subject to an investigation by the recently renamed Office of the Attorney General of Justice. <\/p>\n\n

Omar Halleslevens Acevedo:<\/strong> Retired Army general and Ortega\u2019s vice president from 2012 to 2016, was ousted from his former offices on Murillo\u2019s orders in May 2023.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n

\u00c1lvaro Baltodano Cantarero:<\/strong> Retired general, arrested in May 2025 and sentenced to 20 years in prison<\/a> for the alleged crime of \u201ctreason against the homeland.\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Former Members of the FSLN National Directorate<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n

Humberto Ortega Saavedra: <\/strong>Retired Army general and the dictator\u2019s brother, died at dawn on September 30, 2024, after being under house arrest since May 19 and in total isolation since June 11, on Ortega and Murillo\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n\n

Henry Ruiz \u201cComandante Modesto\u201d<\/strong>: Former military officer and critic of Ortega and Murillo, long withdrawn from politics, has been under house arrest since March 8, 2025<\/a>. His last public statement on Nicaragua\u2019s situation was in June 2019, when he called on the Nicaraguan Army to disarm paramilitary groups. <\/p>\n\n

Bayardo Arce Casta\u00f1o: <\/strong>Presidential economic adviser and former member of the FSLN National Directorate, was arrested at midnight on July 30, 2025. His detention came five hours after the Attorney General\u2019s Office issued a statement accusing him of failing to respond to two interview requests as part of an investigation into \u201coff-the-books transactions.\u201d As of now, he remains imprisoned at an undisclosed location, and has not been formally charged by the Prosecutor\u2019s Office or the newly renamed Office of the Attorney General of Justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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