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Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , 1929-, president of Nicaragua (1990-97). Widow of martyred newspaper editor Joaquim Chamorro, she briefly joined the ruling Sandinista junta following the 1979 revolution. Opposed to the direction of the revolution, she resigned and converted the Chamorro family newspap... Read more
Guam
Guam , Chamorro Guåhan, officially Territory of Guam, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (see also Northern Mariana Islands ), an unincorporated territory of the United States (2005 est. pop. 168,000), 209 sq mi (541 sq km), W Pacific. The southern part of t... Read more
Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands , officially Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a self-governing entity in association with the United States (2005 est. pop. 80,400), c.185 sq mi (479 sq km), comprising 16 islands (6 inhabited) of the Marianas chain (all except Guam ), in the W Pacific Ocean. T... Read more
Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Daniel Ortega Saavedra , 1945-, president of Nicaragua (1979-90, 2007-). As a university student, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandinistas ), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. In 1967, he was arrested and spent ... Read more
Augusto César Sandino
Augusto César Sandino , 1895-1934, Nicaraguan revolutionary general. A farmer and a mining engineer, he joined the liberal revolution (1926) against the conservative government headed by Adolfo Díaz and Emiliano Chamorro. He protested against the new U.S. intervention in Nicaragua in 1... Read more
Anastasio Somoza
Anastasio Somoza , 1896-1956, president of Nicaragua (1937-47, 1950-56). After the end (1933) of U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua, he rose to power as head of the national guard. Though himself a member of the Liberal party, he engineered (1936) a successful coup against the incumbent Liberal... Read more
Sandinistas
Sandinistas members of a left-wing Nicaraguan political party, the Sandinist National Liberation Front (FSLN). The group, named for Augusto Cesar Sandino , a former insurgent leader, was formed in 1962 to oppose the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle . In 1979 the Sandinistas launched an offensiv... Read more
Nicaragua
Nicaragua , officially Republic of Nicaragua, republic (2005 est. pop. 5,465,000), 49,579 sq mi (128,410 sq km), Central America. Nicaragua is bordered on the north and northwest by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the southwest by the Pacific Ocean. The... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Chamorro,"

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Newspaper magnate, publicist, anti...National Opposition, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro (born 1930) was also the first woman...Nicaragua (1990). Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, known to friends and supporters as...
Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de (1939–...when her husband, Pedro Joáin Chamorro, was assassinated. In 1989, supported...rebels and Sandinista militants. Many of Chamorro's policies were blocked by reactionary...
Emiliano Chamorro
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Emiliano Chamorro , 1871-1966, president of Nicaragua...1926). A conservative army chief, Chamorro supported the revolt (1909) against...States, he was a signer of the Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, which granted the United States...
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...friend." By 1668, the term had shifted to chamorro ("bold"), because Chamorro men often wore a topknot of hair on an otherwise...was Filipino, 19,868 (33.75 percent); Chamorro, 17,120 (29.1 percent); Chinese, 6...
Guam
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures Guam Culture Name Chamorro Alternative Names Guamanian Orientation...in the Mariana Islands chain. The Chamorro people and their language are indigenous...43 percent of the population was of Chamorro ancestry. The largest immigrant population...
Guamanian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...have") as it was known in the ancient Chamorro language, is the southernmost and largest...like shape of the seal represents a Chamorro sling stone quarried from the island...proa, a seagoing canoe built by the Chamorro people, which required skill to build...
Chamorros
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Chamorros ETHNONYM: Tjamoro The Chamorro are the indigenous inhabitants of the...and especially American culture. The Chamorro language is classified as an Austronesian...Guam is now a U.S. territory. The Chamorro occupied the five southernmost islands...
Northern Mariana Islands
Encyclopedia entry from: World Education Encyclopedia ...71,912 Language(s): English, Chamorro, Carolinian Literacy Rate: 97% The...resident population is made up mostly of Chamorro, Carolinians, and Micronesians. The three main languages spoken are English, Chamorro, and Carolinian. Some 86 percent of...
Nicaragua
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...iacute;az, in a civil war. The Bryan-Chamorro Treaty, giving the United States exclusive...resumed the next year, when Emiliano Chamorro attempted to seize power. Augusto C...Somozas, Sandinistas, Contras, and Chamorro The U.S. marines were withdrawn in...
Nicaragua, U.S. Military Involvement in
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...This arrangement was ratified in the 1916 Bryan‐Chamorro Treaty, which extended American financial aid to Nicaragua...xED;az's taking of the presidency from Gen. Emiliano Chamorro Vargas. Washington quickly recognized Díaz and sent...

Dictionary entries related to "Chamorro,"

Bryan-Chamorro Treaty
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History BRYAN-CHAMORRO TREATY BRYAN-CHAMORRO TREATY, a treaty between the United States and Nicaragua...Jennings Bryan and Nicaragua's Washington minister, Emiliano Chamorro, on 5 August 1914.It granted to the United States in perpetuity...
Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Chamorro, Violeta Barrios de (b. 18 Oct. 1929). President of Nicaragua 1990–7 Daughter of a wealthy landowner, she married...
Nicaragua
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...lost to a coalition group led by Violeta Chamorro. Although she succeeded in winning a...causing great hardship. President Chamorro only narrowly succeeded in resisting...agreement was reached in 1994. In 1996 Chamorro resigned, and the conservative Arnaldo...
Contra Aid
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of the contras had laid down their arms. That same year, the Sandinistas lost power in an election to Violeta Barrios de Chamorro. One of the last Cold War struggles ended with the transfer of power from the Sandinistas to her government. BIBLIOGRAPHY...
Gadsden Purchase
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Impending Crisis, 1848 – 1861. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. Paul Neff Garber / a. g. See also Bryan-Chamorro Treaty ; Compromise of 1850 ; Confirmation by the Senate ; Indian Claims Commission ; Mexican-American War ; Soto, Hernando...
Guam
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...construction materials, and fish, and Guam's largest trading partners are the mainland United States and Japan. English and Chamorro are the principal languages on the island, and more than 98 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. BIBLIOGRAPHY Carano...
Ortega Saavedra, Daniel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...were boycotted by several opposition parties. To general surprise, he lost the 1990 elections to his most prominent critic, Chamorro . Nevertheless, he remained an influential figure in Nicaraguan politics and, as leader of the official Sandinista movement...

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CHAMORRO VOWS TO BRING PEACE TO NICARAGUA.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/26/1990; 700+ words ; ...McClintock Baltimore Sun Violeta Barrios de Chamorro assumed the presidency of Nicaragua on...machinery." In her inaugural address, Chamorro, a 60-year- old widow, abolished...one-third to one-half of the army. Chamorro named herself defense minister and said...
Chamorro leadership assailed, but there's no alternative, experts say. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/28/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...longtime family friend said of President Violeta Chamorro. The maternal magic didn't work. Chamorro ended a civil war when she took office in...tensions keep tearing at Nicaragua. Today, Chamorro's government is isolated, weakened and...
Chamorro Takes Office in Managua;Sandinista Retained as Military Chief
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 4/26/1990; ; 700+ words ; Violeta Chamorro, the newspaper publisher who promised...11 years of leftist Sandinista rule. Chamorro immediately proposed a sweeping amnesty...its ranks. In a controversial move, Chamorro also said today that she had retained...
Chamorro, Familial Conciliator, Faces a Wider Task
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/27/1990; ; 700+ words ; For Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the 60-year-old matriarch of...tainted by ambition for power. Now Chamorro, whose six-month campaign against...in angry, aggressive opposition. Chamorro and her small group of advisers learned...
Chamorro reaps wide support over move to oust army chief. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 9/3/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...crackled with tension, President Violeta Chamorro on Friday said angry army officers would...poured in from around the hemisphere, and Chamorro saw even bitter political enemies commend...message to the nation. The rupture between Chamorro and the Sandinista People's Army occurred...
Chamorro to Oust Army Chief, Other Sandinistas From Power
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/3/1993; ; 700+ words ; President Violeta Chamorro promised today to replace Nicaragua...that ruled Nicaragua from 1979 until Chamorro's election in 1990. He is a brother...La Prensa newspaper, owned by the Chamorro family, reported that the Ortega brothers...
As Chamorro Courts Sandinistas, Vice President Remains Isolated
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/22/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...office. Elected with President Violeta Chamorro in 1990, Godoy has no official office or...office, he said he had not even spoken to Chamorro for 15 months. While his relations with Chamorro have long been strained, his alienation...
VIOLETA CHAMORRO: NEOPHYTE FACES A CRISIS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/27/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...or experience. Now Violeta Barrios de Chamorro finds herself president-elect of a...parties who openly revile each other. Chamorro, who will be inaugurated president on...said a tired Antonio Lacayo, who was Chamorro's campaign manager, just a few hours...
ORTEGA WARNS CHAMORRO ON CONTRAS.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/6/1990; 700+ words ; ...Ortega warned President-elect Violeta Chamorro that using contra rebels to rebuild Nicaragua...would raise the threat of civil war. Chamorro was to meet today with Costa Rican President...continuing a regional peace process. Chamorro, who defeated Ortega in the Feb. 25...
Son-in-Law's Advice to Chamorro Is Focus of Managua Aid Crisis
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/9/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...as chief adviser to President Violeta Chamorro he is a key figure in dealing with the...by the leftist Sandinistas. Lacayo is Chamorro's son-in-law and has served as...adviser on most issues. These sources say Chamorro, who is the widow of a slain newspaper...