Rosario Murillo

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Rosario Murillo

Rosario Murillo Zambrana (born June 22, 1951 in Managua ) is a writer and has been Vice President of Nicaragua since January 2017 . She has been a partner since 1978 and the wife of President Daniel Ortega since 2005 .

Sandinista Liberation Front

As early as 1969, Murillo joined the fight against the Somoza dictatorship . After a stay in prison, she traveled abroad in 1977 and met Daniel Ortega in Caracas.

After the successful revolution of 1979, Murillo was responsible for the cultural life and publications of the FSLN . After Ortega suffered a heart attack in 1994 and former revolutionary comrades turned away, Murillo's role became increasingly important for the president who was elected in 2006. She was officially a government spokesperson with the authority of ministerial authority to give instructions to regional authorities. Nobody else was allowed to make official statements. Daniel Ortega himself had publicly stated that he shared power with Murillo. In the 2016 presidential election, Murillo stood as his deputy. The only serious opposition candidate had been exchanged for a puppet in court and parliamentarians protesting against it had been dismissed.

In the words of writer and ex-Sandinista Gioconda Belli , Murillo's propaganda was “more Goebbels than Orwell ” (“This is more Goebbels than Orwell”) when she spoke of peace and reconciliation on July 17, 2018, while the police and Paramilitaries attacked the indigenous community in Monimbó with Kalashnikovs , sniper rifles and artillery.

family

Her mother was a niece of Augusto César Sandino , the eponymous independence hero of the Sandinista Liberation Front. The parents were large landowners and sent the daughter to England and western Switzerland for training . At a young age she worked as a secretary and was married twice for short periods. From these two marriages there were three children. According to his own statements, the death of a son in 1973 was the trigger for writing poetry.

The relationship with Ortega has seven more children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wife and Running Mate: A Real-Life 'House of Cards' in Nicaragua "Ms. Murillo is already the official government spokeswoman, so no other bureaucrat is authorized to speak to the news media except her. In an email, she declined to be interviewed. (She speaks mostly to news organizations that are controlled by the government, several of them by her children.) "
  2. ↑ The mighty compañera. NZZ, November 8, 2016
  3. ↑ Ortega's shameless empire. NZZ, November 8, 2016
  4. ↑ 'Everyone is an enemy who's deserving of death, rape and jail': Death squads have returned to Nicaragua , Public Radio International, July 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Murillo, Rosario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Murillo Zambrana, Rosario (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan writer, Vice President of Nicaragua
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Managua