Violeta Barrios de Chamorro

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro receives the presidency sash (1990)

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (born October 18, 1929 in Rivas , Nicaragua ) is a Nicaraguan politician and publicist and was President of Nicaragua between 1990 and 1997 .

Life

Violeta Chamorro was state president of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. She has several children mother, her husband was the newspaper editor Pedro Chamorro , who in 1978 under the Somoza - dictatorship was murdered. She grew up on a cattle ranch and went to school in the United States, where she attended secretary classes. After the death of her father, she returned to Nicaragua, where she married her husband Pedro Chamorro in 1950. In 1957 he was exiled to southern Nicaragua. His wife followed him and they fled to Costa Rica . Pedro Chamorro returned to his homeland in 1960 after an amnesty decree and continued his work there as a publisher. In 1978 Somoza militiamen murdered him .

Editor

Pedro Chamorro's death prompted large parts of the opposition to support the struggle of the Sandinista Liberation Front FSLN against Somoza. The guerrilla war developed into a general popular uprising. In July 1979, after the success of the revolution , Violeta Chamorro belonged to the five-member "Junta of National Reconstruction". Disappointed with the Sandinista dictatorial course , she resigned on April 18, 1980. Under Violeta Chamorro's leadership, the liberal newspaper La Prensa became Nicaragua's largest newspaper and the main mouthpiece of the opposition in the fight against the Sandinista.

President

On February 25, 1990, Violeta Chamorro prevailed as a candidate of the anti-Scandinavian party alliance "Unión Nacional Opositora" ("UNO"), which was widely supported by the USA, with 54.7 percent of the votes against the Sandinista head of state Daniel Ortega . The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung certified her in February 1992 that she and her cabinet had achieved amazing things within two years. B. restore the creditworthiness of your country in no time. The government was also successful in dismantling the almost 100,000-strong Sandinista armed forces and demobilizing the 20,000-strong resistance force (" Contras ") at the end of 1989 . It ended the huge inflation and reintroduced the market economy . In 1996 she was no longer allowed to run for office after a six-year term .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Oscar Chavarría: La postura de la Iglesia Católica ante de la dictatura Somocista, la revolución Sandinista y el proceso democrático a partir de los documentos del episcopado (1970-1999) . Pontificia Università Lateranense, Rome 2001, p. 34.

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel Ortega	President of Nicaragua April 25, 1990 - January 10, 1997	Arnoldo Inglés