Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...

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

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua's first female president who ended a brutal civil war and oversaw the country's ...

Dissatisfied with the direction things were taking, Barrios de Chamorro resigned from the Junta, which had been dominated by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), and criticized them ...

The success of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was greeted as a heroic revolution by some; for others, it was seen as giving communists a dangerous toehold in Central America. US ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua and a prominent figure of reconciliation ...

The meeting was strategic summit and a rallying cry for solidarity in the face of the unprecedented assault on poor and ...