Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of La Prensa, the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a 1977 laureate of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize of the University of Columbia. He married Violeta Barrios de Chamorro who later went on to become President of Nicaragua (1990-1996). In 1978, he was shot to death, one of the precipitating events of the overthrow of the Somoza regime the following year.

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Male

Date of Birth

September 23rd, 1924

Age

Birth Place

Nicaragua, Granada Department

Date of Death

January 10th, 1978

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