Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of ...

The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political ...

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A retired Nicaraguan army officer in exile who fiercely criticized authoritarian President Daniel Ortega was shot dead ...

In a powerful demonstration of international solidarity, seven U.S. veterans visited Nicaragua in mid-March as part of an ...

The Department of Homeland Security is notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that ...

A quick, three-hour flight was all it took to trade in North America’s unpredictable spring for the steady warmth of ...

June 14 (Reuters) - Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement.

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the Nicaraguan leader whose rule in the 1990s marked the end of the country’s civil war and who ...