Carlos Fernando Chamorro

Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios (born ) He also hosts two television news shows, Tonight and This Week. Chamorro is the youngest son of former president of Nicaragua Violeta Barrios de Chamorro and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a Nicaraguan journalist and editor of La Prensa who was shot to death in January 1978 during the Somoza regime (the paper was critical of the regime).

During the first Sandinista regime and through 1994, Chamorro was editor in chief of the government newspaper Barricada.

Early life and Sandinista work Carlos Fernando Chamorro studied at Colegio Centro America. He then attended McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1977. He then returned to Nicaragua intending to study for a master's degree and then work to address poverty in the country. but became disenchanted in less than a year and, with Chamorro's siblings Pedro Joaquín and Cristiana, returned to La Prensa, which she turned into an opposition paper again, but this time opposing the FSLN. Meanwhile, his uncle Xavier Chamorro sold his shares of La Prensa to found El Nuevo Diario, which was sympathetic to the FSLN, and Chamorro's sister Claudia joined the FSLN government as ambassador to Costa Rica, while Chamorro's brother Pedro Joaquín left Nicaragua to join the Contras. Chamorro had opposed his mother's candidacy, feeling it was counter-revolutionary and a sign of the weakness of the conservative party that nominated her. He spent the following year at University of California, Berkeley, teaching reporting on Central America and taking classes, as well as learning from US newsmedia like 60 Minutes and NPR. after the police raid of Confidencial's offices on 14 December 2018, the same day they searched offices of a number of non-governmental organizations that alleged human rights violations by the government. Chamorro returned in late November of the same year.

Chamorro went into exile again in June 2021 after his siblings were arrested by the Nicaraguan authorities. He was also charged with various financial crimes.

In 2023, Chamorro was stripped of his Nicaraguan citizenship.

Honors In 2010, Chamorro won a Maria Moors Cabot Prize, administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The award citation said Chamorro "serves as an outstanding example of courage in standing up to abuse by an authoritarian regime."

In 2021, Chamorro won a Ortega y Gasset Award for lifetime achievement in Spanish-language journalism, awarded by El País. The jury for the prize commended him as "an emblem of the defense of freedom of expression."

Personal life Chamorro is married and has three children.