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Instead, Ortega said Miranda was "reached by and fell in love with the CIA" in the United States when he accompanied Nicaragua's first lady, Rosario Murillo, to California on September 5 to visit a demonstrator injured while protesting U.S. aid to the anti-Sandinista rebels, called Contras...
Monks, it seems, are as subject to the tides of fashion as less holy men. Zurbaran's Caravaggian intensity started to drop out of favor after 1650. What the Spanish church wanted was the sweetness and emotional flexibility of Murillo, and Zurbaran had turned to producing devotional paintings by the score for the provincial market in Latin America. Some of the late madonnas in which he tried to rival Murillo's sentimental grace are sugary beyond belief, and the swarms of putti that infest them are among the ugliest in Spanish...
While he was in prison, Ortega and Rosario Murillo, one of the leading poets in the Sandinista movement, exchanged poems. (Poetry is a national passion in Nicaragua.) Murillo, who was educated in a British convent school, helped Ortega stay in contact with other prisoners and the outside world. She later became his common-law wife...
Ortega and Murillo have a big family. Murillo, in her early 30s and a high- ranking Sandinista in her own right, has two children by her first husband, whom she married when she returned to Nicaragua at the age of 15. Ortega reportedly has one child from a previous relationship. The Ortegas have had five children together, ranging from seven months to five years...
Daniel Ortega is often called shy, soft-spoken, retiring: "the reluctant ruler." Not Murillo. The First Lady maintains the kind of profile that goes with $300 glasses. A darling of the radical chic, the articulate, outspoken Murillo counts Bianca Jagger (also a Nicaraguan) and Harry Belafonte among her friends. In New York City for January's large international writers' congress, Murillo was escorted by Little Steven Van Zandt, a rock songwriter who produced the antiapartheid anthem Sun City. She had planned to attend an antidrug seminar in Atlanta last week at which Nancy Reagan was hostess, but did not obtain...