Violeta Chamorro (1929-2025) - Find a Grave...

Violeta Chamorro (1929-2025) - Find a Grave...

President of Nicaragua. She was the first woman elected president in the Americas, leading Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She rose to prominence after the assassination of her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, and became a key opponent of both the Somoza dictatorship and the Sandinista regime. Her presidency focused on peace, reconciliation, and rebuilding the country after years of conflict. After leaving office, she founded a foundatio…

Building Memory, Documenting the Truth: The Case of Nicaragua’s Confidencial

Is reporting possible while living under persecution? When you don’t know from where you’ll be attacked, or if you will be discredited, threatened, intimidated, or forced into exile? Where the choices are sometimes as stark as choosing jail, silence, or exile? In Nicaragua, which has been governed by former guerilla fighter turned strongman Daniel Ortega since 2007, press freedom has fallen precipitously. The country now sits near the tail end o…