Person

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal

1924–1978 · 20th century

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was a Nicaraguan journalist, editor of the newspaper La Prensa and a leading opponent of the Somoza dictatorship, who was repeatedly jailed and exiled. His assassination in Managua on 10 January 1978 provoked strikes, riots and a national uprising that ended with the fall of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979. His widow, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, became president in 1990.

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
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