Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized army troops.

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was scarcely involved in politics. But as the country descended into revolution and ...

Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil war-ravaged Central America — was laid to rest this week after dying in exile in ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the presidency of Nicaragua in 1990, presenting herself as unity figure in the wake of civil war and becoming the first woman elected to govern a Central ...

Barrios de Chamorro, a simple housewife thrust into Nicaraguan politics by the assassination of her husband and who, as president, ended a civil war, died on Saturday, June 14, 2025, in San José ...

Nicaragua is striving to overcome the after-effects of dictatorship, civil war and natural calamities, which have left it one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died today at the age of 95, her family said. Chamorro, who ruled the ...

Nicaragua. Nicaragua's Regime Wages War on Religious Freedom President Daniel Ortega's crackdown on religion is part of a broader attack on civil liberties.

Since 2018, Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega and his wife have waged a war against those who do not submit to state control, shuttering over 5,000 NGOs and other civil society organizations.

Barrios de Chamorro, a simple housewife thrust into Nicaraguan politics by the assassination of her husband and who, as president, ended a civil war, died on Saturday, June 14, 2025, in San José ...