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Nicaragua’s former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95 She emerged as the nation's first female president during a turbulent time in Central America.

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

Violeta Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, has passed away at 95. She played a crucial role in ending the civil war and transitioning to peace.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua and a prominent figure of reconciliation after the country's civil war, passed away on Saturday in San José, Costa ...

As president, Chamorro managed to bring to an end a civil war that had raged for much of the 1980s as US-backed rebels known as the ‘Contras’ fought the leftist Sandinista government. That conflict ...