The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

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Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in presidential elections ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized ...

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

After defeating Daniel Ortega at the polls in February 1990, she became the first elected woman president in the Americas.