How to Pronounce Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
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Sep 23, 1924 Granada, Granada Department, Nicaragua Died on 10 Jan 1978 (aged 53)
Nicaraguan journalist
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About Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
- Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 Granada, Nicaragua – 10 January 1978 Managua) 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.
