Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo (née Narváez Murillo) (born November 13, 1967, in Managua) is a consultant for Comunidad Casabierta, an LGBTI rights organisation in

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. She is also a former member of the National Assembly of Nicaragua. In 1998, she accused her stepfather,

Daniel Ortega José Daniel Ortega Saavedra (; born 11 November 1945) is a Nicaraguans, Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007. Previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as coordinator of the ...

, of sexually abusing her as a child. According to her account, April 1989 was the last time that Ortega raped her, through a third party. In September 1990, her mother threw her out of the presidential house during a nervous breakdown. Zoilamérica was recovering from a leg operation. Beginning in the

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, Zoilamérica recounted that her

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of her by the former president became telephone calls, and was never physical again. From her exile in Costa Rica she condemned her stepfather during the

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Personal life

Her mother is

Rosario Murillo Rosario María Murillo Zambrana (; born 22 June 1951) is a Nicaraguan politician and poet who has held the position of Vice President of Nicaragua, the country's second highest office, since January 2017 and First Lady of Nicaragua since 2007 ...

, her father was Jorge Narváez Parajón (m. 1967; d. 1997). She is also a stepdaughter of Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua.

In popular culture

The 2019 documentary film ''

Exiliada ''Exiled'' ( es, Exiliada) is a 2019 Nicaraguan documentary film directed by Leonor Zúniga. The film features interviews with Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo, stepdaughter of the leader of the Sandinista Revolution and Nicaraguan President Daniel O ...

'' () revolves around and interviews her, as well as her complaints of sexual abuse against Ortega in 1998.

References

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