11 Facts About Rosario Murillo

Rosario Murillo was sworn in as vice president of Nicaragua on 10 January 2017.

Rosario Murillo's father was Teodulo Murillo Molina, a cotton grower and livestock owner.

Rosario 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.

Rosario Murillo possesses certificates in the English and French languages, granted respectively by the University of Cambridge in Great Britain.

Rosario Murillo attended the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in her hometown.

Rosario Murillo joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1969, and provided shelter in her house, which was located in the Barrio San Jose Oriental in Managua, to Sandinista guerrillas, among them Tomas Borge, one of the founders of the FSLN.

Rosario Murillo was arrested in Esteli in 1976 for her activities in politics.

Rosario Murillo later moved to Costa Rica, where she dedicated herself completely to her political work with the FSLN, helped start Radio Sandino, and met her future husband, Daniel Ortega.

Rosario Murillo stated that the accusations were "a total falsehood" and afterwards sided unconditionally with Ortega and publicly shunned her daughter, who has still maintained that her accusations were true.

Rosario Murillo is "widely seen as the power behind the presidency", according to Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman.

Rosario Murillo is known for her New Age beliefs and practices.