Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...

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

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned ...

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The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday told hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work ...

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Violeta Chamorro, the president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997, died over the weekend at the age of 95. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman recount her political career, which was sparked in 1978 by ...

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Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...

We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas ...