Nicaraguan opposition leader Cristiana Chamorro has been given an eight-year sentence after being found guilty of money-laundering. Ms Chamorro says the charges were politically motivated and ...

Cristiana Chamorro has been under house arrest since June last year accused of laundering money. She was considered a favorite of the presidential election last year.

Nicaragua's former President Violeta Chamorro dies at 95, family says Violeta Chamorro, an unassuming homemaker who was thrust into national politics by her husband’s assassination and stunned ...

Violeta Chamorro, who brought peace to Nicaragua after decades of war and was the first woman elected president in the Americas, died on Saturday at the age of 95, her family said.

A former Nicaraguan presidential hopeful and her brother were found guilty of several financial crimes late Friday, relatives of the two told Reuters.

Police in Nicaragua have placed opposition presidential hopeful Cristiana Chamorro under house arrest. Prosecutors have accused Ms Chamorro of money laundering, which she denies, and demand she be ...

Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan leader who helped end civil war, dies at 95© Kathy Willens/AP Pope John Paul II and Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro kiss after the pontiff arrived in Managua in ...

Chamorro, the most prominent of dozens of political activists arrested by Nicaragua’s government, faces up to 13 years in jail.