Ana Julia Guido
Attorney General of Nicaragua
Assumed office
10 April 2014
PresidentDaniel Ortega
Preceded byJulio César Centeno
Personal details
Born
Ana Julia Guido Ochoa

(1959-02-16) 16 February 1959
Matagalpa, Nicaragua

Ana Julia Guido Ochoa (born 16 February 1959) is a Nicaraguan jurist who is the attorney general of Nicaragua. She is the first woman to appointed to the post.[1]

Personal Sanctions

In August 2021, she was made subject to personal sanctions by the European Union over her role as the Attorney General of Nicaragua in oversight and commission of alleged human rights violations and orchestrating a crackdown campaign on political opposition and civil society through politically motivated and bogus charges against demonstrators, activists and dissidents.[2] This means any of her assets found in the EU jurisdictions should be frozen and European companies are forbidden to do business with her; she is also barred from traveling to the EU.[3]

References

  1. "Electa una mujer como Fiscal General de la República" [A woman elected as Attorney General of the Republic]. La Voz del Sandinismo (in Spanish). 10 April 2014. Archived from the original on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  2. "EU sanctions Nicaragua's first lady and vice-president over human rights violations". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  3. "Unión Europea sanciona a Rosario Murillo y otros siete funcionarios orteguistas" [European Union sanctions Rosario Murillo and seven other Ortega officials]. Confidencial (in Spanish). 2 August 2021. Archived from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
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