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A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead Thursday in neighboring Costa Rica, his family and officials said.

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FILE - Nicaragua's new President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro flashes vee signs as outgoing President Daniel Ortega applauds after placing the presidential sash on her, in Managua, April 25, 1990.

Washington lifted trade sanctions and promised aid to rebuild the nation’s ravaged economy, and by June the 19,000-strong Contra army had been disbanded, formally ending an eight-year war.

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after decades of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died on Saturday at the age of 95, her family said.