Violeta Chamorro, former president of Nicaragua, at 95 years old, dies in exile.

Violeta Chamorro’s family reported that the former president of Nicaragua died this Saturday, June 14, at 95, in the city of San José, capital of Costa Rica, after a long illness.

“Mrs. Violeta died in peace, surrounded by the love and love of her children and the people who gave her extraordinary care, and is now in the peace of the Lord,” says a statement published in X by Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, one of the children of the ex -president and director of Digital Confidential.

The statement, in which the family appreciates the many signs of solidarity and affection, specifies that in the next few hours the funeral that will be made in San José will be informed and indicates that the remains of Violeta Chamorro will rest in that city “until Nicaragua is again a republic and its patriotic legacy can be honored in a free and democratic country”.

“Symbol of the struggle of good against evil”

“Doña Violeta is a large symbol, it is an immense symbol of the struggle of good against evil, of the struggle of a woman of faith, a woman who with a cross was able to beat some armed communist guerrillas to the teeth,” the former Mexican of Nicaragua told ACI Press before the OAS before the OAS, Arturo McFields.

“It represents the faith of a people in change, the faith of a people in La Paz, the faith of a people in the better future. I believe that still today, Mrs. Violeta tells us that we do not lose faith, that you can get ahead, you can have better days, and that is the greatest symbol, the symbol of peace that overcomes hate, peace that is not an earthly peace, but that it is a peace that comes from God,” he added.

“Today Mrs. Violeta is still more alive than ever because she says they do not lose faith, they do not lose hope, Nicaragua will be a Republic, Nicaragua will be free again,” McFields said.

The triumph of Doña Violeta against Daniel Ortega was “a turning point” in Nicaragua

A Nicaraguan priest in exile, who prefers to stay in anonymity to avoid reprisals from the Ortega regime against him and his family, shares with Aci Prensa that “talking about the triumph of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in 1990 is to remember a turning point in our history: for us it was the most hopeful transition after a civil war that left thousands of dead.”

In the presidential elections of February 1990, Violeta Chamorro defeated Daniel Ortega, and became the first woman elected president in the American continent. He ruled until 1997.

“Through the popular vote, in an election where the people had to face the Sandinista dictatorship, the cycle of the armed revolution was closed and opened the way to the reconstruction of the country with freedom and reconciliation,” said the priest. “With his triumph, the economic blockade that had us in an equal or similar situation to Cuba with the ration cards was eliminated,” he added.

“Violeta Barrios had to face the same Sandinista Front, which far from contributing to the pacification process, acted as a political battle front, shaking protests and using their parallel structures to hinder the efforts of governance and reconstruction” because they could not accept that “they had lost the elections.”

Doña Violeta “in me evokes peace”

Martha Patricia Molina, researcher and author of the report Nicaragua: a persecuted churchthat in its last edition of December 2024 it accounts for almost 1,000 attacks of the dictatorship, he told ACI Press that “the image of Mrs. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in me evokes peace. She is the person in which confidence was deposited and the change came to our country.”

“I was a child at that moment but my memories before their inauguration were of a war and death sandinism, seeing my uncles and dad in a military base and I crying because we had to separate, torture in prison to one of my relatives, not have toys, an education where they indoctrinated us, we had no food,” he said.

“With the arrival of Mrs. Violeta everything changed and the life of Nicaraguans and mine improved. I regret her physical loss but I know that she enjoys her Easter and that God has received her happily. She was an excellent woman,” Molina said.

“Mrs. Violea never made power a pedestal”

Félix Maradiaga, a former political prisoner and former presidential candidate, told ACI Press that “the departure of Mrs. Violet not only enluta to her family and who knew her, but also marks a deeply significant moment She defeated the polls. ”

“It was the reflection of a woman who believed in peace as an act of faith and politics as an exercise of consciousness,” he said.

Maradiaga, who met the former president being a university student, also stressed that “Mrs. Violeta never made power a pedestal. At the end of her mandate, she returned without ostentation to her home in the Las Palmas neighborhood, with her forehead high and clean hands.”

After pointing out that “like every government, he had successes and errors. History will analyze them,” the presidential former candidate said “the Christian certainty that Doña Violet Dignity of Nicaragua ”.

To conclude, Félix Maradiaga stressed that “Mrs. Violeta lives in the soul of a people who do not forget her. Her legacy calls us to persevere. Because decency is not a weakness. It is many times, the most noble way of force.”

Who was Violeta Chamorro?

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was president of Nicaragua between 1990 and 1997. She was born in Rivas on October 18, 1929. He was also a journalist.

Shortly after the fall of the Anastasio Somoza dictator in 1979, a National Reconstruction Government Board of five members was established: three of the Sandinista Front and two independents, one of which was violet neighborhoods of Chamorro.

He resigned from the Board in April 1980 due to the socialist course that the FSLN and the influence of Cuba took on the government.

In 1990 he led the Oppositer National Union Coalition (one), with which he triumphed in the presidential elections against Ortega.

Her husband was Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, journalist and director of the Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa, opponent to the Somoza regime, which was killed in 1978.

Update on June 13 at 19:33 (GMT-5): Felix Maradiaga’s statements were added.