Her living room was full of dark wood furniture, like a shrine. And that was what Violeta Chamorro intended. The walls were covered with photographs of her husband, Pedro Joaquín: alone, with the ...

FILE - Nicaraguan presidential candidate Violeta Chamorro raises her arms as she receives a warm welcome during her visit to Miami on Sept. 17, 1989. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

Nicaraguan journalist Cristiana Chamorro puts her hands over the coffin of her mother, the former Nicaraguan president Violeta Chamorro, during a funeral mass at the Votive Shrine of the Sacred Heart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and ...

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 decades of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died Saturday at the age of 95, her family said. Chamorro, who ruled ...

Over the past few weeks, most eligible residents of Norwalk may have found one of the new waste carts had been dropped off in front of their homes. The Hackensack Board of Education has declined to ...

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Nicaragua's former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95, family says. New Haven resident Kevin Curran reportedly passed a teller a handwritten note demanding cash and said ...

“It’s targeted to young professionals as well as people who are downsizing but want to stay in town. Empty-nesters, too,” developer Bob Hebert said. Mark Daniels flew187 missions in the F-8 Crusader, ...