Rosario Murillo
| Rosario Murillo | |
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| Vice President of Nicaragua | |
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Assumed office January 10, 2017 |
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| President | Daniel Ortega |
| Preceded by | Omar Halleslevens |
| First Lady of Nicaragua | |
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Assumed office January 10, 2007 |
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| President | Daniel Ortega |
| Preceded by | Lila T. Abaunza |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 22, 1951 Managua, Nicaragua |
| Nationality | Nicaraguan |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Ortega (1979-present) |
| Children | 8 |
| Occupation | Poet, Spokeswoman |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Rosario Murillo (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈsaɾjo muˈɾiʝo]; born June 22, 1951) is a Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary who fought in the Sandinista revolution in 1979. She is married to the current President Daniel Ortega and is the First Lady of Nicaragua, a title she also held in 1985 when her husband became President 6 years after the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) overthrew the Somoza dynasty. Murillo serves as the Nicaraguan government's lead spokeswoman,government minister, head of the Sandinista Association of Cultural Workers and Communications Coordinator of the Council on Communication and Citizenry and was sworn in as Vice President of Nicaragua on January 10, 2017. A polyglot, she speaks Spanish, English, Italian and French; she also has the ability to read German.
Murillo was born in Managua, Nicaragua. She married Daniel Ortega and had eight children. According to Nicaraguan historian Roberto Sánchez, Murillo is maternally related to Nicaragua's national hero, Augusto Sandino.
Murillo attended high school at the Greenway Convent Collegiate School in Tiverton, Great Britain, and studied Art at the Institut Anglo-Suisse Le Manoir at La Neuveville in Switzerland. Murillo possesses certificates in the English and French language, granted respectively by the University of Cambridge in Great Britain, and University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. She also attended the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in her hometown, where she later became a language professor at the Instituto de Ciencias Comerciales and the Colegio Teresiano during 1967-1969.
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