SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination ...

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

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

Violeta Chamorro, who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ...

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was ...

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 ...

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

After the war ended and Ortega was defeated in election in 1990, Sobalvarro entered the government of Violeta Chamorro as part of a program to reintegrate former Contra fighters. He says he only ...

Among the ex-military personnel detained is Ronald Leiva Silva, a former lieutenant colonel and former chief of the Defense Information Directorate (DIP) in Matagalpa during the administration of ...

Chamorro speakers on Guam are dwindling. “I speak Chamorro and I want my children and husband, all born here, to also know how to speak the language. We’re hoping to close the gap,” Kayla ...

Feb. 4, 1975: The Chamorro Land Trust Act is signed into law, creating a commission, and authorizing it to adopt rules and regulations for the lease of government land to Chamorros, as well as ...