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ARCHIVE: Nicaragua – February 1990
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1. Various of Violeta Chamorro during campaign rally
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Violeta Chamorro, then–Nicaraguan presidential candidate:
"They have benefited from the war, how sad, but it is true."
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ARCHIVE: Nicaragua – 16 February 1990
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3. Chamorro campaigning for UNO coalition
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ARCHIVE: Nicaragua – 23 March 1990
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4. Chamorro celebrating among supporters
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ARCHIVE: Washington D.C. – 8 November 1989
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5. Various of Chamorro meeting with then-US President George H. W. Bush
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ARCHIVE: Nindiri, Diriomo, Nicaragua – 6 January 1997
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6. Various of Violeta Chamorro arriving and greeting people
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Violeta Chamorro, then-President of Nicaragua:
"From the first moment I asked God and the Blessed Virgin and the Three Kings, whom we are celebrating today, to give me patience and to enlighten me so that in the course of these years we could see the smiles of mothers, children and all Nicaraguans."
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Violeta Chamorro, then-President of Nicaragua: ++ENDS ON CHAMORRO WALKING AWAY FROM PODIUM AND GREETING PEOPLE++
"If I did not fulfill everyone’s wish, forgive me, but my mission is accomplished."
STORYLINE:
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 presidential elections and ending Nicaragua’s civil war, has died, her family said in a statement on Saturday. She was 95.
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 after nearly a decade of conflict between the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega and U.S.-backed Contra rebels.
At nearly seven years, Chamorro’s was the longest single term ever served by a democratically elected Nicaraguan leader, and when it was over, she handed over the presidential sash to an elected civilian successor — a relative rarity for a country with a long history of strongman rule, revolution, and deep political polarization.
Chamorro died in San Jose, Costa Rica, according to the family’s statement shared by her son, Carlos Fernando Chamorro, on X.
“Doña Violeta died peacefully, surrounded by the affection and love of her children and those who had provided her with extraordinary care, and now she finds herself in the peace of the Lord,” the statement said.
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