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Violeta Chamorro
(Violeta Barrios;) Rivas, 1929) policy and Nicaraguan activist. Wife of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, journalist assassinated during the dictatorship of Somoza, served as President ofNicaragua between 1990 and 1997.
Affluent family, grew up in the estate of his father, on the shores of Lake Nicaragua in Rivas, town near the border with Costa Rica. In 1950, aged 22, he marriedjournalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, descendant of fruits Chamorro, first head of State of the independent Nicaragua and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, President of the Republic from 1875 to 1879.
Duringthe 27 years of marriage was devoted to the care of his four sons and went unnoticed before public opinion in your country. But he accompanied her husband on the ups and downs that involved due toits fight against the regime of Anastasio Somoza. It was with him into exile imposed Somoza in San Carlos, small Nicaraguan town near the border with Costa Rica, and later, in 1958, be they exiled tothis country. Two years later they returned to organize the first armed invasion to overthrow the dictator. Failed invasion, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was sentenced to nine years in prison.
January 10,1978, her husband was killed by gunmen somocistas. This fact helped ignite the uprising to the regime and marked the life of violet. Then he began to take an active political life in which heemphasized the international campaign of the atrocities of the Somoza regime and took charge of the diary of her husband, La Prensa, which had been founded on March 2, 1926.
20 July 1979 columns guerrillaentered Managua and Violeta Chamorro was integrated into the national reconstruction Bureau along with President Daniel Ortega, Vice President Sergio Ramírez, Moisés Hassan and Alfonso Robelo. Theofficial protocol reached often assume the representative of the head of State functions. However, nine months later, on 9 April 1980, he presented his resignation for health reasons. In some circles of...