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 ...

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 ...

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

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of ...