After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas ...

Violeta Chamorro, Nicaragua’s first female president, died at 95 in San José, Costa Rica, on. Learn about her legacy of peace ...

Ortega is responding to the U.S. dismantling of humanitarian parole for Nicaraguans, along with Cubans, Haitians and ...

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas ...

Nicaragua's former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95, family says ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the UN refugee agency, accusing it of bias. Learn about the country’s exit and its broader ...

The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized ...

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after decades of war and was the first woman elected president in the ...