Rosario Murillo
Rosario Murillo | |
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Murillo in 2024 | |
| Co-President of Nicaragua | |
| Assumed office 18 February 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Ortega (as sole President) |
| Vice President of Nicaragua | |
| In office 10 January 2017 – 18 February 2025 | |
| President | Daniel Ortega |
| Preceded by | Omar Halleslevens |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
| Member of the National Assembly of Nicaragua | |
| In office 4 November 1984 – 25 February 1990 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rosario María Murillo Zambrana 22 June 1951 Managua, Nicaragua |
| Political party | FSLN |
| Spouses | Jorge Narváez
(m. 1967; died 1968)Carlos Vicente Ibarra
(m. 1973; div. 1977) |
| Children | 2 with Jorge Narváez, including Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo 1 with Moisés Hassan 7 with Daniel Ortega, including Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo |
| Relatives | Augusto César Sandino (great uncle) Xiomara Blandino (daughter-in-law) |
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Rosario María Murillo Zambrana (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈsaɾjo muˈɾiʝo]; born 22 June 1951) is a Nicaraguan politician and poet, who is serving as co-president of Nicaragua along with her husband, President Daniel Ortega, since February 2025.
Before this, she served as the vice president of Nicaragua, the country's second highest office, from 2017 to 2025 and as first lady of Nicaragua from 2007 to 2025 and from 1985 to 1990 as the wife of President Ortega. Murillo has served as the Nicaraguan government's lead spokesperson, government minister, head of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers, and Communications Coordinator of the Council on Communication and Citizenry. She was sworn in as vice president of Nicaragua on 10 January 2017. In August 2021, she was personally sanctioned by the European Union over alleged human rights violations.
Murillo and her husband's government has been designated as a dictatorship by the U.S. Department of State, the Organization of American States, and Confidencial.