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### Viewing cable 07MANAGUA585, OVERVIEW OF MINISTERS AND SENIOR OFFICIALS IN

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    DE RUEHMU #0585/01 0651550
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    P 061550Z MAR 07
    FM AMEMBASSY MANAGUA
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 9339
    INFO RUEHZA/WHA CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLECTIVE
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    S E C R E T MANAGUA 000585

    SIPDIS

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 02/26/2017
    TAGS: KDEM PGOV PREL PINR
    SUBJECT: OVERVIEW OF MINISTERS AND SENIOR OFFICIALS IN
    ORTEGA ADMINISTRATION

    REF: A. 02 MANAGUA 1588
         ¶B. 02 SECSTATE 123985
         ¶C. MANAGUA 241
         ¶D. MANAGUA 392
         ¶E. MANAGUA 466

    Classified By: Classified by Ambassador P. Trivelli for reason 1.4b

    ¶1.  (C) SUMMARY:  Within two weeks of his January 10
    inauguration, President Daniel Ortega had appointed all his
    ministers save one, the Minister of Defense.  Political
    opposition leaders have characterized the new ministers as
    "nobodies" who exercise virtually no authority or influence.
    Instead, Ortega is concentrating power in the hands of
    "consejos" (councils) led by Ortega loyalists, including his
    wife, Rosario Murillo.  Ortega's political maneuvers have
    drawn fire from legal experts, human rights organizations,
    and political opposition leaders, concerned that Ortega is
    circumventing laws advance his aspirations for the
    institutionalization of a "direct" democracy.  END SUMMARY.

    Foreign Affairs - Samuel Santos
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶2.  (U) A long-time member of the FSLN, Santos most recently
    served as the party's Secretary for International Relations.
    He is a private businessman with real estate, hotel, and
    coffee interests and is a founding member of the Nicaraguan
    Stock Market.  In the 1980s, he served in a variety of
    positions in the FSLN government, including Minister of
    National Reconstruction, vice president of national
    development, and mayor of Managua. Santos holds a BA from the
    National Autonomous University of Nicaragua.

    ¶3.  (C) The FSLN's primary interlocutor in recent years with
    the senior diplomatic community in Managua, Santos represents
    one of the new government's kinder, gentler public faces, but
    one who likely exerts little influence on Ortega,s inner
    circle.  Reflecting his personal economic interests, however,
    Santos does seem to respond and take action in cases that
    could affect the Nicaraguan tourism or investment climate.
    Career civil service members within the ministry, as well as
    a former minister in the Bolanos government, have commented
    that Santos is "being used" to assuage the international
    community's concerns about the Ortega government during the
    transition period, but may not last in office more than 12
    months.  Santos is known to have been involved in
    facilitating arms trade during the Sandinista era of the
    1980s.  In 1999, Santos was found prudentially ineligible for
    a U.S. visa under 212(a)(3)(B) on grounds of terrorism.
    Santos continued traveling to the U.S. until he was detained
    in Miami in 2004 as a result of the 1999 P3B entry.  His visa
    was canceled and Santos withdrew his application for
    admission to the U.S.  Following his appointment as Foreign
    Minister, Santos was granted a visa waiver.

    Industry and Commerce - Horacio Brenes
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶4.  (U) Horacio Brenes is a 57-year-old businessman from
    Matagalpa who became increasingly active in business
    associations and politics in Matagalpa beginning in 1995 when
    he founded the Pro-Matagalpa Trade Fair Committee. The
    committee soon transformed itself into the Foundation for the
    Development of Enterprise in Matagalpa (FUDEMAT).  With the
    foundation as his base, Brenes ran for mayor of Matagalpa in
    1996 on an independent ticket called Matagalpa 2000, but was
    defeated by the PLC candidate.  In 2000 and 2004, he ran for
    mayor on the PLC ticket, but was defeated by the FSLN
    candidate.  However, as a member of the City Council, he
    worked in a "unity pact" with his FSLN rivals.  In town
    meetings held in Matagalpa and Boaco organized by Ortega's
    wife and campaign manager, Rosario Murillo, Brenes stepped
    forward as one of a small group of liberals supporting
    Ortega's campaign for unity.  Brenes graduated from the
    Central American Institute for Business Administration
    (INCAE).  Brenes also studied at Louisiana State University
    for three years in the late 1960s.  He is married to Tamara
    Hawkins, whose grandfather was from the United States.  He
    has two sons and two daughters, two of which attend
    university in Florida.

    Finance and Public Credit - Alberto Guevara
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶5.  (U) Guevara holds masters degrees from the National
    University of Nicaragua in Economics and Development and in
    Public Finance.  He also studied macroeconomics in Chile on
    an Interamerican Development Bank scholarship.  Until April
    2006, Guevara worked as a junior researcher in the Central
    Bank's (BCN) unit calculating the GDP deflator.  He also
    covered issues of debt sustainability, national income
    accounting, and statistical programs for the management of
    information systems.  He is close to presidential economic
    advisor Bayardo Arce.

    ¶6.  (C) Guevara's ability to administer the Ministry of
    Finance is questionable, as he appears to lack managerial and
    political experience.  Guevara was actually dismissed from
    the Central Bank last year on charges of sexual abuse
    perpetrated while moonlighting as an economics professor.
    Following his dismissal, the FSLN reportedly found him a job
    in a party member's construction company.

    Central Bank - Antenor Rosales
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶7.  (SBU) Rosales holds a masters degree in law and a BA in
    business.  He is close to presidential economic advisor
    Bayardo Arce.  Rosales served as the FSLN's representative on
    the board of the Superintendent of Banks and Other Financial
    Institutions.  He also served on the Board of the Nicaraguan
    Renewable Energy and Environment Company.  In the mid-1990s,
    Rosales was a partner, along with other notable Sandinistas,
    in Interbank (the Intercontinental Bank) which collapsed in
    2000 as a result of mismanagement and non-performing loans,
    helping to trigger the collapse of the Nicaraguan financial
    system.  There is no evidence that Rosales was involved in
    misconduct.  From 1979 to 1994, Rosales served in the
    Sandinista Army, rising to the rank of colonel.

    ¶8.  (C) Rosales is characterized as confident and charismatic
    by interlocutors and former employees state that "he only
    accepts one answer for things - his own."  He was known to
    subject professors in graduate school to long lectures on the
    short-comings of their economic models.  However, Rosales is
    seen as having a moderating influence on Ortega through Arce.
     He is one of the few Sandinista leaders that has not (so
    far) dismissed key personnel from his institution.

    Government - Ana Isabel Morales
    - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

    ¶9.  (U) Morales holds a masters degree in international
    relations and three post graduate degrees in various facets
    of the law.  She worked for 19 years in the Ministry of the
    Interior, today known as the Ministry of Government, where
    she served as both deputy and, later, director of immigration
    services for nearly 15 years.  The niece of Vice President
    Jaime Morales, she is a former Sandinista guerrilla fighter
    recognized for being the only survivor of the Veracruz
    massacre.  At the time she was recruited to fight against the
    Somoza regime, she was a student activist.

    ¶10.  (S) Embassy sources reported that, in a meeting with her
    staff and senior members of the National Police (NNP),
    Morales declared her intentions to reconstitute the ministry
    as it was in the 1980s as the Ministry of Interior.  She
    announced that she would personally take control of NNP
    operations and intelligence (Ref. B).  Morales was apparently
    immigration director when Nicaraguan passports were obtained
    by subjects involved in the first attack on the World Trade
    Center.  Further, post has information that in 1997 and 1998,
    Morales was linked to illegal alien trafficking on at least
    six occasions (Ref. D).

    Transportation and Infrastructure - Fernando Martinez
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    ¶11.  (U) Pablo Fernando Martinez Espinoza is well known in
    Nicaraguan construction and engineering circles.  From 1984
    to 1990, he was a member of President Daniel Ortega's first
    administration, serving as Vice Minister of Construction.  In
    the early 1990s, Martinez founded CEICO SA, a construction
    company that has received a number of government contracts to
    build roads and bridges, as well as a dock at the Port of
    Corinto and an airport on Corn Island.  CEICO has also won
    contracts to maintain and rehabilitate national roads from
    the government's Roadway Maintenance Fund (FOMAV).  Martinez
    has been a member of the Executive Council of the Nicaraguan
    Chamber of Construction.  He holds a degree from the Central
    American University in Civil Engineering, and has worked as
    the Dean of the College of Engineering at the same
    institution.  He is one of the founders of the National
    Engineering University.

    ¶12.  (SBU) Many of Martinez's interlocutors in the business
    sector like him and think he may be the man to shape up this
    troubled ministry.  Currently, his company has contracts for
    many of MTI's largest infrastructure projects as well as all
    road maintenance in Nicaragua.  He has not renounced his
    ownership of CEICO since his appointment, raising the specter
    of potential conflict of interest.

    Health - Martiza Cuan
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    ¶13.  (C) Quan is a general health practitioner with a
    master's degree in public health.  She is a former director
    of the Bertha Calderon hospital in Managua and has also
    served as director at a number of health centers in different
    parts of the country.  Under the Sandinista regime, she
    worked at the Ministry of Health and has worked on health
    programs funded by foreign donors and most recently served as
    the director of the Women's Integral Health Project (PROSIM).
     Ministry personnel describe her as a soft-spoken
    well-meaning technocrat in over her head as Minister.

    Agriculture and Forestry - Ariel Bucardo
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    ¶14.  (U) Bucardo holds a degree in business management and
    social sciences, and a master's degree in sustainable
    development.  Before his appointment as Minister, Bucardo
    served as president of the National Rural Fund (CURUNA), a
    savings and credit cooperative.  He has spent most of his
    professional career working in the areas of basic food
    production and agricultural exports.  Bucardo is a founder of
    the Sandinista-affiliated National Federation of Cooperatives
    (Fenacoop) -- which was known for leading land invasions on
    properties of foreigners and wealthy Nicaraguans -- and of
    the Association of Farm Workers (ATC).  He was also president
    of the National Union of Agriculture and Cattle Farmers
    (UNAG) during the 1980s.  He served as a member of the
    National Council for Economic and Social Planning (CONPES) as
    well.

    ¶15.  (SBU) In his capacity as a UNAG official, Bucardo
    appears to have been a constant critic of CAFTA and may be
    Ortega's source of information in this regard.  In public
    statements, he has stressed the value of recent trade and
    cooperation agreements with Venezuela and Iran.

    Education - Miguel de Castillo Urbina
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    ¶16. (C) De Castillo Urbina is a professor of Education
    Science at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
    (UNAN) and coordinates the Latin American Forum of Education
    Policy (FLAPE).  He has written several books on education
    and educational policy and often authors long pieces on
    educational policy in the daily newspaper El Nuevo Diario.
    He was vice minister of education during the previous
    Sandinista government.  He proudly characterizes himself as a
    Marxist and is strongly opposed to school autonomy and
    decentralization.  De Castillo has already taken several
    missteps linked to raising public school coverage; he is
    viewed as hard-headed and dogmatic.

    Environment and Natural Resources - Amanda Lorio Arana
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    ¶17.  (C) Amanda Lorio Arana is a sociologist who worked for
    the Agricultural Development and Reform Ministry during the
    1980s.  She has since been certified by the Upledger
    Institute (United States) and the International Therapy
    Examination of Healthcare Practitioners.  Before being named
    minister, she  practiced reflexology at a medical office in
    Managua.  She has reportedly treated First Lady Rosario
    Murillo, and it was through this connection that she was
    selected as minister.  Lorio freely admits that she has no
    background on environmental issues.

    Family - Rosa Adilia Vizcaya
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    ¶18.  (C) Adilia Vizcaya was appointed as Minister of Family
    in mid-February following the sudden removal of Glenda
    Ramirez Noguera, who held the position for only 21 days.
    Ramirez, who is the sister-in-law of Presidential Economic
    Advisor Bayardo Arce, a close friend of the First Lady,
    Rosario Murillo, was seen as a moderate with independent
    ideas about how to run the Ministry.  In addition, there are
    indications that Ramirez may have fallen out of favor with
    Ortega, leaving her vulnerable to attack.  Adilia Vizcaya,
    originally appointed as Secretary General of the Ministry of
    Family, according to media reports, was favored by FSLN
    hard-liner Nestor Moncada Lau for the Minister position.
    Lau, a former member of Lenin Cerna's state security forces
    in the 1980s -- connected to a variety of crimes including
    assassinations, transporting explosives, and smuggling
    automatic weapons -- is believed to have orchestrated
    Noguera's ouster with Adilia Vizcaya and a leader of the
    Sandinista labor union.  No further information is available
    on Adilia Vizcaya at this time.

    Ortega's Maneuvering may Leave Ministers with Little Real
    Power
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    ¶19.  (C) Through a series of rapid legislative reforms to Law
    290 (Ref. C) and presidential decrees, it appears that Ortega
    is maneuvering to implement the first stages of direct
    democracy and undermine the ministries.  First, Ortega
    successfully pushed through the National Assembly a reform to
    Law 290 (Law 612) that expands his power to "create
    (secretaries and) councils (Consejos) that he deems
    convenient for the better development of his government and
    to determine (their) organization and functioning."  To date,
    Ortega has created or announced eight councils including the
    Council of Communication and Citizenry headed by his wife;
    the Council of Food Security; the Council of Peace and
    Reconciliation; the Council of the Atlantic Coast; the
    Council of the Family; the Council of Sustainable
    Development; the Council of the Fight Against Drugs; and the
    Council of Economic and Social Planning.

    ¶20.  (SBU) Legally, neither Law 290 nor Law 612 reforms allow
    Ortega to cover the salaries of the heads of these councils,
    stating that "these councils will not cause budget
    expenditures and participation (in them) will not generate
    economic remuneration."  To circumvent this restriction,
    Ortega is reverting back to original Law 290 language that
    allows remuneration for "secretariats."  Two weeks ago,
    Ortega issued Presidential Decree 21-2007, dividing the
    Office of the Presidency into "advisors," "office of the
    presidency," "councils," and "secretariats," and has re-named
    the heads of the councils as secretaries, allowing them to
    receive salaries.  In practice, however, Ortega continues to
    refer to these advisory organs as "councils" and publicly
    declared over the weekend that the ministries will be
    accountable to them.

    ¶21.  (C) Ortega's moves to transfer power from the ministries
    to his councils have drawn strong criticism from local human
    rights organizations and the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance
    (ALN) political party, both of which have filed formal
    denunciations with the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ).
    Privately, opposition leaders, including Sandinista
    dissidents belonging to the Sandinista Renovation Movement
    (MRS), have characterized the ministers as "nobodies",
    believing Ortega's new ministers are "place holders with no
    authority or influence" (Ref. E).

    ¶22.  (SBU) Although Ortega's wrangling with Laws 290 and 612
    may be legally dubious, legal experts insist that the
    appointment of Ortega's wife as the head of the Council of
    Communications and Citizenry -- which recently took control
    of the public relations and travel budgets for all government
    ministries -- is a clear violation of Law 438 on public
    probity.  This law states that "the spouse or common-law
    partner...of the public servant who appoints or contracts or
    of the person from whom this authorization emanates" is not
    eligible to exercise public functions.  In response, Ortega
    insisted that "She (Rosario) will occupy the office or
    offices that may be necessary for her to occupy," leaving no
    doubt of the influence his wife will wield in his
    administration.

    Who's Who in the Inner Circle
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    ¶23.  (C) Although they do not carry the formal "minister"
    title, there is little doubt that the heads of the Councils
    and others appointed under Presidential Decree 21-2007, form
    Ortega's inner circle.  Biographies for the key players
    appointed thus far are provided below.

    Secretary of Communication and Citizenry - Rosario Murillo
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    ¶24.  (C) Together since the 1970s and officially married last
    year, Murillo is President Ortega's closest confidant.  She
    currently serves as coordinator of the Council for
    Communication and Citizenry and functioned as Ortega's
    campaign manager during his successful bid for the presidency
    in the 2006 elections.  Murillo is the mother of Zoilamerica,
    who, in 1998, publicly accused stepfather Ortega of having
    abused her for more than a decade.  Murillo has consistently
    defended her husband in the case.  Some believe that she has
    used her knowledge of the case to gain and maintain power and
    influence over Ortega.  Murillo is a great believer in
    spiritualism, a hypochondriac, and, putting it mildly, sports
    an eclectic wardrobe.

    ¶25.  (U) Born on June 22, 1951, Murillo was educated in the
    UK and France and is fluent in both English and French.
    Prior to becoming involved in the Sandinista movement, she
    was a language professor and worked for ten years as the
    assistant to the late Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, Director of La
    Prensa newspaper.  In 1969 she joined the Sandinista
    underground movement and during the 1980s she was a member of
    the Nicaraguan National Assembly and Minister of the
    Nicaraguan Institute of Culture.  She is also a published
    poet (of largely erotica), writer and journalist.

    Presidential Advisor for Economic Affairs - Bayardo Arce
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    ¶26.  (U) Before his appointment as Presidential Advisor for
    Economic Affairs, Arce served as a FSLN deputy in the
    National Assembly from 1997-2007, where he served as
    president of the Economic Commission.  He is believed to
    bring a more pragmatic approach to the FSLN's economic
    policies.  Arce joined the FSLN in 1969 and became a member
    of the urban resistance in 1970.  He is a long standing
    member of the FSLN National Directorate and has held various
    other positions within the party.  Arce is also a successful
    businessman, exporting agricultural products.  He is close to
    First Lady Murillo.

    ¶27.  (C) In 2002, Arce's U.S. non-immigrant visa was revoked
    under 212(A)(2)(I) of the INA for money laundering for his
    role in the collapse of Intercontinental Bank (Interbank) in
    2000 (Refs. A and B).

    Private Secretary for National Policy - Paul Oquist
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    ¶28.  (U) Oquist holds a doctorate in political science from
    UC Berkeley and is a naturalized Nicaraguan citizen, who
    renounced his U.S. citizenship in the 1980s.  Oquist was head
    of the transition team for the Sandinista government to the
    UNO government in 1990.  During the 1980s, he worked in
    then-President Ortega's office, first as the coordinator of
    the state's management system and then as Ortega's Chief of
    Staff.  Oquist was a long-time consultant for the United
    Nations Development Program where he worked as a governance
    expert on projects throughout the world.
    TRIVELLI

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