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Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro (Spanish pronunciation: [bjoˈleta tʃaˈmoro]; 18 October 1929) [1] is a Nicaraguan former politician who served as the 55th President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She was the first and, to date, only woman to hold the position of president of Nicaragua.
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios: April 25, 1990 January 10, 1997 Violeta Chamorro: Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua's first female president, was a widow. Her daughter, Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, served in the role of first lady during her presidency. [1] [3] [4] María Dolores Alemán Cardinel: January 10, 1997 October 23, 1999 Arnoldo Alemán
General elections were held in Nicaragua on 25 February 1990 to elect the President and the members of the National Assembly. [1] The result was a victory for the National Opposition Union (UNO), whose presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro surprisingly defeated incumbent president Daniel Ortega of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). [2]
Chamorro election poster. In the presidential election held on 25 February 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro won 55% of the popular vote against Daniel Ortega's 41%. [3] The UNO disbanded in the mid-1990s, after a very fractious rule during which little progress was made.
[18] [19] When Violetta Chamorro visited the White House in November 1989, the US pledged to maintain the embargo against Nicaragua unless Violeta Chamorro won. [ 20 ] In August 1989, the month that campaigning began, the Contras redeployed 8,000 troops into Nicaragua, after a funding boost from Washington, becoming in effect the armed wing of ...
Chamorro also became director of the press freedom foundation in her mother's name, the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation (FVBdC). She served in this capacity until January 2021, [9] and in February 2021 the Foundation ceased operations after the Ortega government, which had returned to power in 2007, announced a new law that all groups receiving funding from outside Nicaragua would be ...
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro (1875–1879), President of Nicaragua from 1875 to 1879. Violeta Chamorro (born 1929), first female president in Latin America, second in North America and 48th President of Nicaragua. Adolfo Díaz (1875–1964), President of Nicaragua in 1911–1917 and 1926–1929.
General Humberto Ortega Saavedra (10 January 1947 – 30 September 2024) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary, military leader, writer and businessman. One of the nine members of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, he co-founded the Tercerista tendency [clarification needed] and was the "major theorist" [1] of the urban insurrection strategy that toppled the Somoza ...