section_path: Sandinista front
section_name: Sandinista front
paragraph_text: Sandinista front
  
  Murillo joined the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1969, and provided shelter in her house, which was located in the Barrio San José Oriental in Managua, to Sandinista guerrillas, among them Tomás Borge, one of the founders of the FSLN.
  
  During the early 1970s, Murillo worked for La Prensa as a secretary to two of Nicaragua's leading political and literary figures, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro and Pablo Antonio Cuadra. Murillo was arrested in Estelí in 1976 for her activities in politics. Soon after, she fled and lived for several months in Panama and Venezuela. She 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. When the Sandinistas overthrew US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, she returned to Nicaragua. Murillo and Ortega married in 2005.