Aminta Granera

Aminta Granera Sacasa (born 18 September, 1952, León) is Director General of the National Police of Nicaragua since September 5, 2006.

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After studies at Georgetown University in the United States, Granera decided to become a nun. She began her novitiate with the Sisters of the Assumption in Guatemala City, but abandoned her religious training in 1976 to join the sandinista uprising against dictator Anastasio Somoza. As a revolutionary, she was part of a Christian urban insurrection group. After the successful overthrow of Somoza in 1979, she joined the police, helping to set up special units to combat violence against women and crime against children. She also worked to fight police corruption. In 2006, she was appointed as the national chief of police by president Enrique Bolaños, starting her tenure by replacing several high-ranking police officers. In 2011, she was appointed to a second term by president Daniel Ortega. During her tenure, she has worked to increase the number of women serving in the police force, with the goal of reaching 50 percent.

Granera is married to economist Oswaldo Gutiérrez, with whom she has three children. The first was born during the revolutionary war, and after leaving the child with her mother, she returned to the front. She is also a grandmother.