Chamorro is one of the four children of Pedro Joaquín and Violeta Chamorro. Their father was the editor of La Prensa, the newspaper that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. He was assassinated in 1978.

Since early June, seven opposition presidential candidates have been detained, including Cristiana Chamorro, daughter of former President Violeta Chamorro, who defeated Ortega in the 1990 elections.

Chamorro, daughter of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, had been placed under house arrest last year and subsequently banned from running in the Nov. 7 elections which President Daniel ...