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A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead ...

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

June 14 (Reuters) - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement.