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 ...

A quick, three-hour flight was all it took to trade in North America’s unpredictable spring for the steady warmth of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nicaragua's former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95, family says ...