Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua’s president, 1929-2025

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Doña Violeta Barrios de Chamorro died in exile in Costa Rica, where she had also lived banished at the end of the fifties of the last century, when she accompanied her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, in a flight at midnight through the waters of the San Juan River, to get safe from the clutches of another dictatorship, that of the Somoza family. In the contemporary history of Nicaragua, marked by oppression and violence, the…

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Violeta Chamorro reconciled the wounded civil war country in the nineties. Now the opponent of the authoritarian long-term ruler Daniel Ortega died 95 years old. She lived since 2023 in Costa Rican exile.