Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, 95, Dies
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Former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro smiles during an interview at her home in Managua, Oct. 19, 2006. Barrios de Chamorro, a simple housewife thrust into Nicaraguan
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who served as Latin America’s first elected female president, died on Saturday at 95.
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