Cristiana Chamorro Barrios

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Chamorro and the second or maternal family name is Barrios.
Cristiana Chamorro Barrios
Chamorro in 2021
First Lady of Nicaragua
In office
April 25, 1990 – January 10, 1997
PresidentVioleta Chamorro
Preceded byRosario Murillo
Succeeded byMaría Dolores Alemán Cardinel
Personal details
Bornc. 1954 (age 69–70)
Managua
SpouseAntonio Lacayo
Parents
RelativesPedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios (brother), Carlos F. Chamorro (brother), Claudia Chamorro Barrios (sister)
OccupationJournalist

Cristiana Chamorro Barrios (born February 25, 1954)[1] is a Nicaraguan journalist, nonprofit executive and political candidate. Vice-president of La Prensa, she was an aspiring presidential candidate in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election until the Ortega government disqualified her from running and ordered her arrest in early June 2021.

Chamorro is the daughter of newspaper editor Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, who was assassinated in 1978, and Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who became president of Nicaragua in 1990. Cristiana began working at La Prensa following her father's death and served as its editor from 1987 to 1991. She also served in the role of First Lady of Nicaragua during her mother's presidency.[2][3][4] She later became director of a press freedom foundation honoring her mother, the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation, until new legal restrictions on civic organizations in Nicaragua forced the closure of the foundation in 2021.

  1. ^ Tompkins, Cynthia; Foster, David William (2001). Notable Twentieth-century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-313-31112-3.
  2. ^ "Ellas son las primeras damas de Nicaragua en los últimos años". La Prensa (Managua). 26 May 2019. Archived from the original on 28 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. ^ "¿Qué tienen en común estas cuatro Primeras Damas de Nicaragua con Rosario Murillo?". La Mesa Redonda. 10 February 2022. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  4. ^ Miranda, Wilfredo (3 June 2021). "Cristiana Chamorro, la hija de la expresidenta que plantó cara a Ortega". El País. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.