Rosario Murillo used the Spanish word for "brother" to speak of Modi Ephraim, head of Israel's foreign ministry division to Latin America and the Caribbean, who is expected to hold high-level meetings with local officials in Managua.
After building a soccer field from scratch in an impoverished Nicaraguan village this summer, the two 17-year-olds returned home with the goal of raising $7,500 to build another field this February.