Word: violeta
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...useful in important therapeutic ways. It is useful to have leaders such as Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Havel, Poland's Lech Walesa, the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, who have all suffered directly, in order to deal with the challenge of change for a society at that moment. There is an extraordinary burden that ordinary people endure when they recognize, perhaps after decades of having been submissive, slavelike, that freedom calls for a different set of imperatives, for a certain capacity for individual decision, judgment and action. I also think it's rather important, for the creation...
...YEAR AGO in this space I predicted that if all went well, the government of Violeta Chomorro would bring prosperity and meaningful democracy to Nicaragua...
...what was coming. In a burst of desperation buying, they emptied store shelves of anything that was for sale. Merchants knew too. Many of them closed their doors, preferring to be stuck with rotting merchandise rather than the worthless currency known derisively as "piggies." When the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro officially devalued the cordoba last week to a stratospheric 25 million to the dollar, most Nicaraguans were simply glad the waiting was over...
...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...
...Nicaraguans see in her life a reflection of the traumas their country has gone through. Dona Violeta, as she is always called, lost a husband to political violence, and her family was split along political lines: two of her children are ardent Sandinistas and two are just as ardent anti-Sandinistas. Yet through it all, Chamorro has kept her family together. Says Emilio Alvarez, a longtime friend of the Chamorro family's: "If she could reconcile her own family, she could do it for the country as well." Nicaragua remains in severe economic crisis, but so far Chamorro has stymied...