Europe EditionNicaragua's first female president Chamorro dies at 95
- Violeta Chamorro, the first woman to serve as president of Nicaragua, passed away peacefully at the age of 95 on June 14, 2025, in San Jose, Costa Rica.
- She entered politics after her husband Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, a prominent journalist opposing Somoza, was assassinated in Managua in 1978.
- Chamorro led Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997, ending the civil war and overseeing the disbanding of the US-backed 19,000-strong Contra army.
- She won the 1990 election with 55% of the vote, defeating Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and leading a coalition of 14 opposition parties.
- Chamorro's death highlights the high personal costs of political conflict in Nicaragua, still under Ortega's authoritarian rule, with her family in exile.
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By Djenane Villanueva, CNN en Español In an emotional religious ceremony, former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro received her final farewell in San José, the capital of Costa Rica, where she arrived in 2023. Barrios de Chamorro, who governed Nicaragua between 1990 and 1997, died early Saturday morning at the age of 95. In a ceremony filled with gestures from family and friends who exalted her legacy, her children Cristiana and C…
Former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro dies in Costa Rica at 95
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Nicaragua's first female president who ended a brutal civil war and oversaw the country's transition to democracy in the 1990s, died peacefully in Costa Rica's capital on June 14 at the age of 95.
Violeta Chamorro Dies in Exile, Leaving Nicaragua’s Democratic Hopes in Question
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who died at 95 in Costa Rica on June 14, 2025, led Nicaragua through a critical transition from civil conflict to fragile peace. Her family confirmed her death after years of illness and exile, a direct result of ongoing political persecution by the government of Daniel Ortega. Chamorro’s presidency from 1990 […]
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who defeated former Sandinista warrior Daniel Ortega at the polls in 1990 and pacified Nicaragua after decades of war, died on Saturday at the age of 95 in exile in Costa Rica. First woman elected president in America, Barrios de Chamorro, who ruled Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997, had been transferred from Managua to San José in October 2023 to be close to her four children, banished by the current Ortega government. “D…
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