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Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after years of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died Saturday at the age of 95, her family said.

One of seven children, she was born Violeta Barrios Torres in Rivas, Nicaragua, on Oct. 18, 1929. At age 21, she married Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, who took control of La Prensa after his ...

The country’s first female president, known as Doña Violeta to both supporters and detractors, presided over the Central American nation’s uneasy transition to peace.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who rose to the presidency of Nicaragua in 1990, presenting herself as a unity figure in the wake of civil war and becoming the first woman elected to govern a Central ...