Violeta Chamorro, whose 1990 upset victory made her Nicaragua's first female president — and ushered peace into civil war-ravaged Central America — was laid to rest this week after dying in exile in Costa Rica at 95.

Violeta Chamorro’s daughter, Cristiana Chamorro, was held under house arrest for months in Nicaragua and then convicted of money laundering and other charges as Ortega moved to

Before the assassination of her husband, the editor of the only independent newspaper in Nicaragua, Violeta Chamorro was scarcely involved in politics. But as the country descended into revolution and civil war,