Five members of the Chamorro family are part of the group of citizens that the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo stripped of his Nicaraguan nationality. The presidential couple has not given up and since Ortega returned to power in 2007, the harassment against them has not stopped.
The members of the Chamorro family that join the list are: Juan Sebastián Chamorro, Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and the Chamorro Barrios brothers; Cristiana, Carlos Fernando and Pedro Joaquin.
Juan Sebastián, Juan Lorenzo, Cristiana and Pedro Joaquín are also part of the group of 222 Nicaraguans who were exiled from Nicaragua by order of the Daniel Ortega regime.
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The four members of the Chamorro family were subjected to political trials, found guilty and sentenced to several years in prison. International organizations denounced that the criminal proceedings lack legality and demanded the release of the detainees.
For his part, Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios was forced into exile due to the multiple occasions that the dictatorship ordered a manhunt against the award-winning journalist and the media he directs: Confidencial and Esta Semana.
It has been the victim of arbitrary and illegal searches, theft of its press equipment, the confiscation of its facilities, harassment of its journalists, and defamation.
The Chamorro family has marked the political life of Nicaragua throughout history. Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal was the martyred director of the newspaper La Prensa, a legacy that his family has followed despite the persecution of the Sandinista regime in the 1980s and in the present.
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Cristiana’s mother, was the first female president of Nicaragua and returned democracy to the Central American country. She is the only person who has defeated Daniel Ortega at the polls in 1990, the year that marked the end of a bloody dictatorship that left Nicaraguan families in mourning and pain.
The most recent Public Opinion Study Nicaragua #104 of the firm Cid Gallup January 2023 places Cristiana Chamorro in the first position of favorable opinion since 2018, the year that the sociopolitical crisis began. Her acceptance places her above Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
