Image of sheet 19840460 photo 24: Die heutige Staatspräsidentin Violetta Chamorro (re.), während einer Veranstaltung der Opposition in der Sandinistischen Regierungsperiode. Managua Nicaragua. 07.84 1984 Chamorro during a political rally (right) central america anti sandinist rally √ 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. She was elected as the head of a 14-party anti-Sandinista alliance known as the National Opposition Union (Unión Nacional Oppositora, 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, the second in the Western Hemisphere after Iceland's Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and the fifth in the world after the elections of Agatha Barbara in Malta, Elisabeth Kopp in Switzerland and Corazon Aquino in the Philippines. She was also the first woman elected in her own right as a head of government in the Western Hemisphere, and the first and only woman in the world to defeat an incumbent president.

Sheet 19840460 Photo 24

Color: Black & White
Type: Negative
Formats: 18x24
Country: Nicaragua
Region: Managua
Date: Jul 24, 1984