Former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamorro has died at the age of 95.
Chamorro became an important figure in the opposition of Anastasio Somoza Debayle's government following the assassination of her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal in 1978; an event which helped spark the Nicaraguan Revolution. Though a member of the junta which ruled the country following the Sandinistas' victory Over Somoza's regime, the establishment of a Marxist, pro-Soviet regime which began implementing censorship and police-state policies resulted in Chamorro's resignation. She resumed...