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 ...

June 14 (Reuters) - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who in 1990 became the first female president of Nicaragua and the Americas, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family ...

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 ...

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

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

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