Husband’s assassination. Born Violeta Barrios Torres on Oct. 18, 1929, in the southwestern city of Rivas, Chamorro had little by way of preparation for the public eye.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that ...

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of money laundering and other charges as Ortega moved to clear the field ...

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Latin America’s first elected female president, whose stunning victory at the polls in 1990 helped bring an end to eight years of a civil war in Nicaragua that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of money laundering and other charges as Ortega moved to clear the field ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and became president of Nicaragua, has died at 95, her family said.

FILE - Nicaragua's new President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro flashes vee signs as outgoing President Daniel Ortega applauds after placing the presidential sash on her, in Managua, April 25, 1990.

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 ...