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

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise was fueled by her husband's murder, championed regional ...

Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned ...

Latin America’s first elected female president won a surprise victory over Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega and demobilized ...

The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday told hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work ...

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 ...

Nicaragua has cut ties with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the U.N.'s refugee agency, the Central ...

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

Despite a flurry of positive reports in the travel press, U.S. officials say Americans should avoid Nicaragua because it’s an authoritarian regime.

What we know   What they said “Doña Violeta died peacefully, surrounded by the affection and love of her children and those ...

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of ...