After returning to her home country, she married and raised a family. She was the first and, to date, only woman to hold the position of president in Nicaragua.Д«orn into a landed family in southern Nicaragua, Chamorro was partially educated in the United States. Violeta Chamorro ( Spanish pronunciation:, born Violeta Barrios Torres 18 October 1929) is a Nicaraguan politician who served as President of Nicaragua from 1990 to 1997. Since its independence, Nicaragua has undergone periods of political unrest, dictatorship, occupation and fiscal crisis, including the Nicaraguan Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s and the Contra War of the 1980s. It became an autonomous territory of Nicaragua in 1860 and its northernmost part was transferred to Honduras in 1960. The Mosquito Coast followed a different historical path, being colonized by the English in the 17th century and later coming under British rule. Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821. Originally inhabited by various indigenous cultures since ancient times, the region was conquered by the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. Indigenous tribes on the Mosquito Coast speak their own languages and English.

The multi-ethnic population of six million includes people of indigenous, European, African, and Asian heritage. Managua is the country's capital and largest city and is also the third-largest city in Central America, behind Tegucigalpa and Guatemala City.

Nicaragua ( / ЛЊ n ЙЄ k Й™ Л€ r Й‘Лђ ЙЎ w Й™, - Л€ r Г¦ ЙЎ-, - ЙЎ j u Й™/ ( listen) Spanish: ( listen)), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (ES-pe - RepГєblica de Nicaragua.ogg), is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the northwest, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.

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