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=== Marriage and family=== Ortega married [[Rosario Murillo]] in 1979 in a secret ceremony.<ref name="RT" /> They moved to [[Costa Rica]] with her three children from a previous marriage.<ref name="LO" /> Ortega remarried Murillo in 2005 in order to have the marriage recognized by the Catholic Church, as part of his effort to reconcile with the church. The couple has eight children,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Cardenal Obando caso a Daniel Ortega y poetisa Rosario Murillo |date=28 September 2005 |url=http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_68__article_2094.htm |work=Cardinal Rating |access-date=11 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070328203222/http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_68__article_2094.htm |archive-date=28 March 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> three of them together.<ref name="RT"/> Murillo serves as the Ortega government's spokeswoman and a government minister, among other positions.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Iran and Nicaragua in barter deal |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6931807.stm |publisher=BBC News |access-date=5 October 2007 |date=5 August 2007 |location=London |archive-date=15 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115142859/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6931807.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Nicaragua-Venezuela Talk Cooperation |url=http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B9FB2EF41-A435-459E-8111-4B04A12681DA%7D)&language=en |work=Prensa Latina |access-date=15 January 2008 |quote="... Government minister and first lady, Rosario Murillo". |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117220408/http://plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B9FB2EF41-A435-459E-8111-4B04A12681DA%7D%29&language=en |archive-date=17 January 2008 }}</ref> Ortega adopted stepdaughter [[Zoilamérica Narváez|Zoilamérica Ortega Murillo]] in 1986, through a court case.<ref name=envio1567>''Envio'', March 2002, No 248 [http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1567 Case 12,230: ''Zoilamérica Narváez vs. the Nicaraguan State''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070621180531/http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/1567 |date=21 June 2007 }}</ref><!-- Why just one stepdaughter? --> In 1998, she accused him of sexually abusing her as a child.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Davison|first1=Phil|date=28 May 1998|title=Ortega faces sex abuse case from his stepdaughter|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ortega-faces-sex-abuse-case-from-his-stepdaughter-1156496.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ortega-faces-sex-abuse-case-from-his-stepdaughter-1156496.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=6 July 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="GUARD16">{{cite news|last1=Watts|first1=Jonathan|title=As Nicaragua's first couple consolidates power, a daughter fears for her country|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/04/nicaraguas-first-couple-daniel-ortega-tighten-grip-power-election-win|access-date=4 November 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=4 November 2016|archive-date=7 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107025021/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/04/nicaraguas-first-couple-daniel-ortega-tighten-grip-power-election-win|url-status=live}}</ref>
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