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 ...

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of ...

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 ...