Readership declined and by the winter of 1990 Violeta decided to cede her role as publisher and give her shares in the paper to Cristiana. She supported her mother's 1989 campaign for the presidency, but once her mother took office (having defeated incumbent Sandinista Daniel Ortega), the paper, historically an opposition outlet (opposing both the Somoza regime and, eventually, the Sandinistas that had overthrown the dictatorship), came to be seen as a government mouthpiece. She served in the role from January 1987 to April 1991. Cristiana joined her mother working at his paper, La Prensa, and by 35 was editor of the paper. Her father, a critic of the Somoza regime, was murdered in 1978, turning tide of support against the dictatorship which fell to the Sandinista National Liberation Front the following year. 1.2 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro FoundationĬhamorro is the daughter of assassinated newspaper editor Pedro JoaquÃn Chamorro Cardenal and former Nicaraguan president Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
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