Word: chamorros
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...Nicaraguan people decided that it was time to have a change in the government of Nicaragua, and President Chamorro came to office in the most supervised elections in Central America," Salaverry said...
Jorge Salaverry, chief adviser to the Nicaraguan Embassy, said the election of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro in February 1990 signalled popular support for democratic reforms...
Salvadorans need look no further than Nicaragua. The 1990 election of Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was greeted with widespread relief for ending nearly 11 years of incompetent rule by the Sandinista National Liberation Front and almost a decade of warfare with the U.S.-backed contras. Chamorro's government moved quickly to end the fighting and rekindle relations with...
...again flowing, but the country has a long way to go toward reconciliation. Discharged troops from the Sandinista army and the contras roam the country robbing civilians to feed themselves. The Sandinistas have caused trouble ; whenever they can, organizing public strikes and threatening violence and disorder in the streets. Chamorro has shown an unhealthy tendency to concentrate power among her inner circle of friends and relatives...
Less spectacular appearances by the Virgin have attracted streams of the faithful in locales from Central America to the Slavic steppes. In Nicaragua, President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro is a strong believer in a series of % visitations by the Madonna in the small town of Cuapa, where Mary was witnessed by a church caretaker several times from May through October of 1980. During a 1981 Mass celebrated at the spot by the Archbishop of Managua, with some 30,000 people in attendance, believers say the sun changed colors. In Hrushiw, Ukraine, tens of thousands of people gathered in 1987 after...