Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
Nicaragua Heads of State
See also
Nicuragua Substates
1979 Member of Leadership Council
of the Government-in-exile Violeta Barrios Torres de Chamoro
1979-1980 Member of the Revolutionary
Junta (July-April)
1990-97 Executive President and Head of the Cabinet, Minister of Defence
(25.4.10.1)
Between 1979-90 Publisher of the opposition news-paper La Prensa after the
murder of her husband, opposition leader Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal. (b. 1929- )
1990-91 3rd Deputy Head of State, the President of Asamblea
Nacional Miriam Argüello Morales
Leader of a conservative party from 1985, In 1995 she was candidate for the
Presidency of the congress
1995-97 Vice-President Julia de la Cruz Mena Rivera
In 1995 Secretary of the Asamblea Nacional
Presidential Delegate and President of the Council of Communication and
Civil Society 2007-16.
A poet, she married President Daniel Ortega after living with him for 27 years.
(b. 1951-).
Last update 26.01.17