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3 unusual facts about Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal


Nicaraguan fifty-cordoba note

On the obverse is Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal and on the reverse is the fortress of El Castillo de la Inmaculada Concepción.

Pedro Joaquín

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, martyred Somoza opponent and grandson of the president.

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal

Speaking about her husband to the participants of the 1998 IPI World Congress in Moscow, Violeta said: “During his whole life, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was a tireless fighter for democracy in Nicaragua and against the dictatorship of Somoza. This cost him incarceration, torture, exile and finally death. He was warned many times that plans existed to assassinate him, yet no threat detained him from fulfilling his mission to impart the truth and preach democracy.”



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