Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
(1924-1978)
Nicaraguan journalist
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Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) 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 (New York). 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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23 September 1924 Granada, Nicaragua
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| Died |
10 January 1978 (aged 53) Managua, Nicaragua
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| Zodiac | Virgo |
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