Overview

• Chamorro governed Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997 after winning 54.7% of the vote against Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega.
• She had suffered a stroke in 2018 and succumbed on June 14 in San José, surrounded by her children and caregivers.
• Her 1990 election victory ended Sandinista rule and broke new ground for women’s leadership in Latin America.
• Her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, was assassinated by Somoza regime agents in 1978, fueling her commitment to democracy.
• The family will hold a religious ceremony in San José to celebrate her life before returning her remains to Nicaragua once democracy is restored.