Rosario María Murillo Zambrana

Nicaragua

Co-President of the Republic of Nicaragua (since February 2025, previously Vice President, since 2017). Wife of President Daniel Ortega

1951-06-22

Managua, Nicaragua

Female

Passport, A00000106, issuer: Nicaragua

EU

Co-President of Nicaragua since February 2025, First Lady of Nicaragua and a leader of the Sandinista Youth. Vice President of Nicaragua from January 2017 to February 2025. She played an instrumental role in encouraging and justifying the repression of opposition demonstrations by the Nicaraguan National Police in 2018. In June 2021, she publicly threatened the Nicaraguan opposition and discredited independent journalists. Those threats have been repeated since then. In February 2023, Daniel Ortega revealed that Rosario María Murillo Zambrana is the instigator of new repressions, namely related to the expulsion and deprivation of citizenship of 222 political prisoners. She is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations, for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, and for undermining democracy in Nicaragua.

CH

art. 2 para. 1 (Financial sanctions) and art. 3 para. 1 (Travelban)

Position(s): Co-President of the Republic of Nicaragua (since February 2025, previously Vice President, since 2017). Wife of President Daniel Ortega

2021-08-13

CH

Ordinance of 24 June 2020 on measures against Nicaragua (SR 946.231.158.5)

Switzerland country specific

Nicaragua

Asset freeze, Travel ban

Switzerland imposes these sanctions under the Ordinance of 24 June 2020 on measures against Nicaragua (SR 946.231.158.5). The measures follow the sanctions adopted by the European Union.