 violeta barrios torres de chamorro (born october 18, 1929) is a nicaraguan political leader, former president and publisher. she became president of nicaragua on april 25, 1990, when she unseated daniel ortega.chamorro, violeta. dreams of the heart. new york: simon & schuster, 1996, isbn 0-684-81055-7 she was elected as the head of a 14-party anti-sandinista alliance known as the national opposition union (uniÃ³n nacional opositora, uno), an alliance that ranged from conservatives and liberals to communists. she left office on january 10, 1997. chamorro was the first and only woman to hold that position in nicaragua. chamorro was the first elected female head of state in the americas, and the second in the western hemisphere after iceland's vigdÃ­s finnbogadÃ³ttir. she was also the second woman elected in her own right as a head of government in the western hemisphere (after eugenia charles of dominica), and the first and only woman in the world to defeat an incumbent president.skard, torild. "violeta chamorro" in women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide, bristol: policy press, 2014, isbn 978-1--44731-578-0 venezuela's former president, carlos andrÃ©s pÃ©rez, was put to trial in his country after it was discovered that he had embezzled funds to support the campaign that got violeta chamorro to the presidency. ==personal life== chamorro was born in 1929 to a wealthy family in rivas, a small city near the nicaraguan border with costa rica. she was educated in private catholic schools in granada and managua.beckman, peter r., and francine dâamico. eds. women in world politics westport, ct: greenwood publishing group, 1995, isbn 0-89789-410-3, 34 chamorro's parents wanted her to perfect her english and sent her to an american boarding school. she first attended our lady of the lake university in san antonio, texas, and then transferred to blackstone college for girls in virginia. in june 1947, her father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and after her father's death she returned to nicaragua, cutting her schooling in the united states short.chamorro, violeta dreams of the heart, 38, 40. she met pedro joaquÃ­n chamorro in 1949 and they married in 1950, with whom she had 
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