About 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 was a 1977 laureate of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize of Columbia University in New York. He married Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who later went on to become President of Nicaragua (1990–1997). In 1978, he was shot to death, one of the precipitating events of the overthrow of the Somoza regime the following year. Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the paternal grandson of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Bolaños and wife, Ana María Zelaya Bolaños. His great-grandparents were Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro, 39th President of Nicaragua, and his wife, María de la Luz Bolaños Bendaña.
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