Claudia Chamorro Barrios

Claudia Lucía Chamorro Barrios (born ) is a Nicaraguan writer, public health official, and former ambassador of Nicaragua to Cuba and Costa Rica. She served as a diplomat on behalf of the Sandinista government in the 1980s. Until her father's assassination, Chamorro worked as an artist and the director of an art gallery, but then became active with the Sandinistas, and once they took power, she served as a negotiator for the junta and in ambassadorial posts in Cuba and Costa Rica in the 1980s. It was Chamorro's second marriage. They married on the date that would have been Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal's 62nd birthday.

Chamorro is the author of Tiempo de Vivir, a 2003 memoir about her son's illness and death from leukemia. With her family she moved to the United States in 1991 to pursue treatment for him; Marcos Tolentino Bárcenas Chamorro died as a teenager in 1996. After her son's death, Chamorro began working at the Pan American Health Organization (part of the World Health Organization), then went back to school at American University.

Chamorro's other family members include her uncle Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, founder of El Nuevo Diario; her brother Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, founder of Confidencial; and her sister Cristiana Chamorro Barrios, former editor of La Prensa and opposition candidate for president in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election.