José Dionisio Marenco Gutiérrez

José Dionisio Marenco Gutiérrez (born September 17, 1946 in Granada (Nicaragua) ) is a Nicaraguan politician . He was Mayor of Managua from 2005 to January 2009 .

Life

Marenco is the son of Bernardo Marenco. In October 1966, when the baseball season opened , the Managua baseball stadium was filled with 20,000 people. A group of 30 people unfolded a banner that read: “¡No más Somoza! Centros Universitarios «. They protested because Anastasio Somoza Debayle was preparing to become the third president of the Somoza dynasty. Marenko was caught with seven other men and a woman from the Guardia Nacional . He spent 28 days in the hospital because his left hand and left jaw were broken, which affected his hearing. Marenco graduated in civil engineering in 1968 with a diploma fromUniversidad Centroamericana . In 1970 he completed a postgraduate course in business administration at the Instituto Centroamericano de Administracion de Empresas (INCAE). He did advanced training in organizational development at Loyola University New Orleans . He began his professional career as a general agent for aluminum windows for Carpintería de Aluminio Dacal, SL. In 1967 he started at Arquitectos e Ingenieros, SA in Managua. In 1968 he was with J. Agustín Chan and Associates which represented the US engineering company Hazen & Sawyer in Managua. In 1970 he worked in Controlling at Genius San Antonio in Chichigalpa . In 1975 he came to headquarters of Genius Nicaragua of Nicaragua Sugar State Limited as Director of Industrial Development. In 1978 Marenco wentinto exile in Costa Rica .

Work in the government and the Sandinista party

The current President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, had known Marenko since 1963 when he was studying law. In 1979, Marenco became Minister of Transport and Public Works in the first cabinet of the Sandinista Revolution. From 1980 to 1985 Marenco was Minister of Internal Trade. In 1886 Marenco became Daniel Ortega's advisory minister . In 1987 Marenco became Minister in the Ministry of Planning and Finance.

In 1988 Marenco headed the FSLN's public relations . In 1990 Marenco devoted himself to building up the FSLN television station Channel 4 , which he directed. Marenco supported the development of the Universidad Internacional de Centroamérica a Distancia (Unicad), he was chairman of the Fundación para la Educación a Distancia (Fundecad).

On the occasion of the local elections in Nicaragua in 2008, Marenko pointed out that when he ran for Mayor of Managua in 2000, Herty Lewites won about 135,000 votes, that he himself won 145,535 votes in 2004 and that his successor Alexis Argüello allegedly received about 300,000 votes should have.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radiolaprimerisima May 6, 2007 La independencia energética es clave para liberarse del FMI, afirma Dionisio Marenco
2. ↑ lnn August 17, 2006 Murió padre del alcalde de Managua
3. ↑ Revista Envío September 14, 2008 Entrevista íntegra con Nicho Marenco en la Revista Envío
4. ↑ New York Times December 6, 2008 Richard Hazen, 78, Consulting Engineer
5. ↑ La Prensa, August 31, 2008 Dionisio Marenco, Alcalde de Managua: “Siento como que hubiera muerto mi hermano” ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ La Prensa May 16, 2003 Promueven universidad vía satélite ( Memento of the original of March 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ABC (Spain) November 16, 2008 El alcalde de Managua pone en duda la victoria sandinista en la capital

predecessor	Office	successor
Herty Lewites	Mayor of Managua 2005–2009	Alexis Argüello