Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo appeared this weekend on the catwalk of Nicaragua Diseña, a fashion event organized by his sister Camila Ortega Murillo, with public funds, showing off a luxury guitar, valued at up to more than 7,000 dollars.
Ortega Murillo, who boasts of being a rock musician, appeared at the event that was broadcast on official channels, controlled by Ortega, while his parents carried out a fierce state compaction that left thousands of state workers unemployed.
The Gibson Custom Les Paul Custom brand electric guitar, according to some internet platforms where they sell it, can be priced from $5,499 to $7,235.
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The Musians Friends platform, on its website, where they offer the Gibson Custom Les Paul guitar for $6,899, describes that Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo’s luxurious “little toy” was “made from an iconic vintage model. With a nitrocellulose lacquer finish and solid mahogany body.
With the waste that was made on a single guitar, taking into account that the price of the basic basket in Nicaragua is more than 20 thousand córdobas, according to data from the National Institute of Development Information (Inide), it was possible to feed some 12 Nicaraguan families.
The ‘singer’ of the Ortega-Murillo family is supposedly a guitarist and composer, and is a member of an alternative progressive rock band known as “Ciclo.” In addition, he is the one who directs the television channel TN8, Radio Rock FM and the sanctioned audiovisual production company Difuso.
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Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo, in addition to bleeding the money of Nicaraguans due to his status as the son of dictators, has also been accused in journalistic investigations by independent media of being the one who led a fierce hunt against Nicaraguan musicians for singing in demonstrations during the rebellion. April 2018 or for refusing to continue singing at official events.
In 2022, according to information from the Divergent media, Juan Carlos Ortega Murillo would have supported the raid that broke out in April of that year, which resulted in the kidnapping of music producers Leonardo Canales, Salvador Espinoza and Xóchilt Tapia, as well as the vocalist from the band Monroy and Surmenage, Josué Monroy.
