Former Nicaraguan President Violeta Chamorro was buried in Costa Rica.

Former Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who died last Saturday at the age of 95, was buried this Tuesday in Costa Rica, where she had lived for the past 20 months under the care of her children, who were exiled and stripped of their nationality and property in their country by the government led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.

The former president, who governed Nicaragua between 1990 and 1997 , was buried in the General Cemetery of San José, Costa Rica, in a family ceremony that brought together her loved ones from both countries and international figures who came to say goodbye, according to her children.

Violeta Chamorro, who died after a prolonged illness, is temporarily resting in the tomb of her uncle Manuel Joaquín Barrios Sacasa, next to her daughter María Milagros Chamorro Barrios, who was born and died in Costa Rica in 1959, reported the Nicaraguan digital media in exile Confidencial , directed by the journalist and son of the former president, Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios.

The remains will go to Nicaragua when Ortega leaves.

The Chamorro Barrios family stated that the remains of 'Doña Violeta,' as she was known to Nicaraguans, will remain in Costa Rican territory " until Nicaragua once again becomes a Republic , and her patriotic legacy can be honored in a free and democratic country."

During the ceremony, her children, Cristiana and Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, promised that their mother would rest in peace in Nicaragua.

"Don't worry, we'll take you to your beloved's side when Nicaragua is once again a republic for all Nicaraguans," said her daughter, Cristiana, during the ceremony. Cristiana, who aspired to be a presidential candidate for the opposition in 2021, was later arrested, deported to the United States, and denationalized by the Sandinista regime.

For his part, Carlos Fernando expressed his gratitude for his mother's "immense example of love and generosity" and promised: "When Nicaragua becomes a republic again, you will return to rest in peace in your homeland, so that all Nicaraguans may honor your memory and your legacy in a free country."

The ceremony included prayers, music, and the singing of the Nicaraguan national anthem, in an act marked by affection and respect for the man who was a key figure in Nicaragua's democratic transition in the 1990s, Confidencial highlighted.

The family announced that "Mrs. Violeta passed away peacefully, surrounded by the affection and love of her children and the people who provided her with extraordinary care."

Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first democratically elected female head of state in the Americas and the woman who defeated former Sandinista guerrilla Daniel Ortega at the polls in 1990 , was transferred to Costa Rica on October 17, 2023, due to her health condition, and after years of withdrawal from public life in Nicaragua.

Born on October 18, 1929, in the city of Rivas, in the South Pacific of Nicaragua, Violeta Barrios Torres was known as Violeta Chamorro after the first surname of her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal.