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 ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- When the U.S. ambassador here said of a presidential candidate that "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it probably is a duck," he ruffled a ...

Spy games and Washington-Moscow power struggles are old hat for Nicaragua, a country the size of Alabama with a rich Cold War history. The Soviet Union and Cuba provided soldiers and funding to ...

Call it the new Cold War, Abrams told NPR. "We've been through this. It seems to me that, either publicly or privately, we need to signal that there are some limits," he said.

The first woman to be elected president in the Americas, Chamorro ended the civil war between the Contras and the Sandinista government.

Looking back: How an ABC News correspondent’s murder shaped Cold War history in Nicaragua It all began the day a Nicaraguan soldier shot Bill Stewart to death.

In 1983, he wrote to Mr. Reagan calling on him to “stop the C.I.A. war against the people of Nicaragua,” and the next year formed the sister-city partnership with Puerto Cabezas.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned the world by ousting the ruling Sandinista party in ...

Violeta Chamorro, Who Led Nicaragua’s End to Cold-War Era Civil War, Dies at 95 Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and ...