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La Prensa was founded by Pedro Belli, Gavry Rivas and Enrique Belli on March 2, 1926. In 1930, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya became editor-in-chief, and in 1932 he bought the paper with the intention of promoting the principles of the Conservative Party of Nicaragua, as well as publicising historical studies of Nicaragua. [1]
La Prensa, founded in 1926, with an estimated circulation of 30,000 in early 1992, continued the family tradition built by the president's late husband, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal. [3] At the time of the transition, La Prensa was run by the president's daughter, Cristiana Chamorro de Lacayo also the wife of Antonio Lacayo. [3]
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During 1978, there were seven machine gun attacks and attempted bombings of La Prensa, now under the management of Chamorro's widow, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. [1] Following Somoza's overthrow, she was a part of the FSLN-based junta from 1979 to 1980. [1] She later broke with the FSLN and was elected president of Nicaragua in 1990. [1]
As of late-2019, La Prensa is the last remaining print newspaper in Nicaragua since the September shutdown of fellow opposition paper El Nuevo Diario over a refusal to release physical printing supplies by the Ortega government.
9 Nicaragua. 10 Panama. 11 Peru. 12 Spain. 13 United States. 14 Venezuela. 15 See also. ... La Prensa (California), founded 1999, serving Riverside and San Bernardino ...
In the 1960s he focused on his construction company, Chamorro & Cuadra Contractors SA, formed with Pedro and José Cuadra, but the company faltered after an unsuccessful highway project, prior to the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake. [1] Pedro Joaquín advised liquidating the company and in 1974 he asked Jaime to take over direction of La Prensa's ...
His parents were Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal, the anti-Somoza editor of La Prensa, Nicaragua's oldest newspaper, and his wife Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. [1] He is the oldest of their four children; his siblings are Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, Claudia Chamorro Barrios, and Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, among other prominent relatives. [2]