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

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua and a prominent figure of reconciliation ...

Former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman ...

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

Violetta Chamorro, who has died aged 95, was not only Nicaragua’s first female president, serving from 1990 until 1997, but the first woman to be elected head of state in the Americas; her unlikely ...