Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of ...

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Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of ...

Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil ...

The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

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

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The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday told hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work ...

Violeta Chamorro, the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997, died over the weekend at the age of 95. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman recount her political career, which was sparked in 1978 by ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...