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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
0:08.4 | Here's John Batchelor. |
0:10.7 | I'm joined by Professor Abenalis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. |
0:16.0 | We begin with saying farewell to a former president of Nicaragua, a country that has fallen into |
0:24.3 | profound, unacceptable failed statehood under its dictator Ortega. However, once upon a time, |
0:33.9 | heaven's going to help me understand Nicaragua with the death of its previous president. |
0:40.4 | Violetta Barrios de Chamora, gone at 95. |
0:46.0 | Evan, a very good evening to you. Thank you. I have none of this history. Who was Chamora? |
0:50.7 | What did she represent to a country? |
0:53.3 | 1990 to 1997, her presidency? Good evening to you. |
0:58.6 | Good evening to you, John. Well, Violeta Barros de Chamorro was really a pillar of both the |
1:05.4 | Senate and East government, but also the opposition. She was really obligated to enter politics when her husband, |
1:13.7 | Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, who was a very high-profile newspaper editor and a noted opponent |
1:21.2 | to the previous pre-Sentenic dictatorship of Anastacio Samosa was assassinated. So in the early days, although Vila |
1:30.3 | Chamorro was not a Sandinista, she actually joined the initial transitional junta of five people |
1:37.5 | that came into power when the Sandinista swept into power in 1979. But although she stayed until Daniel Ortega himself was a formally elected president in |
1:49.5 | 1984, but she very quickly fell out with the more hardline Sandinistas as they consolidated power |
1:57.3 | and she moved into an opposition role. |
2:00.0 | But never fully an opposition associated |
2:02.8 | with the former dictatorial elite of the samosas. So as the world moved towards democracy |
2:11.7 | in 1990, she ran for president, but she ran for president not so much an opponent to the Sandinistas, but as a transitional figure. |
2:20.4 | Somebody who had never been a Sandinista, but who, who is a woman of principle, spoke of uniting, the opposition and those who had backed the Sandinistas. |
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