Word: violeta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elegant gray-haired woman sets down a bouquet of flowers in Managua's Central Municipal Cemetery, a man dressed in rags approaches to wash the gravestone she has come to visit. Breath foul, hands filthy, he bends to kiss her fingertips and rasps, "Dona Violeta, you're looking more beautiful than ever...
...course, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- Dona Violeta to even the hardest-line members of Nicaragua's Sandinista government -- believes precisely the same thing. Otherwise she could not devote her life to a cause that has torn asunder her country, her family and her young girl's dreams of a happy life with a good man. Dona Violeta, 59, is president and publisher of Nicaragua's opposition daily La Prensa (circ. 50,000 to 75,000, depending on the availability of newsprint). Even more, she is a living reminder of what Nicaragua might have been had her husband Pedro Joaquin Chamorro...
Though the leaders of Nicaragua's Marxist government detest her politics and have often tried to intimidate her into silence, they have been known to troop dutifully to Dona Violeta's comfortable four-bedroom house across from a parklet in Managua to talk things over. Chamorro knows her enemy and has not the slightest hesitation about addressing the commander of the revolution and President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, like a naughty schoolboy -- or worse. The last time Ortega visited her home, he noticed that a nine-year-old picture of him with members of Nicaragua's first postrevolutionary government...
...Lyons Award was first given in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who served as Nieman Foundation curator for 25 years. Past recipients of the award include Zwelakhe Sisulu, a South African editor, Tom Renner, a reporter for Newsday who uncovered stories on organized crime, and Violeta Chamorro, publisher of the Nicaraguan opposition paper La Prensa...
...reveals that the agency, beginning in the Carter years, gave financial aid to La Prensa, the opposition newspaper that was shut down for 15 months by the Sandinista government before reopening last week. Past charges by the Sandinistas that the paper was CIA-supported have been denied, and Publisher Violeta Chamorro last week labeled Woodward's revelation "totally false...