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 ...

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

Former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

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