# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pedro-joaquin-chamorro-barrios
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:39:20.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pedro-joaquin-chamorro-barrios"
name: "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios"
slug: "pedro-joaquin-chamorro-barrios"
description: "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios is a Nicaraguan journalist and politician. He began his career in journalism working at La Prensa, following the 1978 assassination of its editor, his father, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal. Working on the side of the Contras in exile in the 1980s, he returned to the country in 1989 when his mother Violeta Barrios de Chamorro ran for president, and following her election, served as a Nicaraguan ambassador. He later became defense minister. In the 21st century, Chamorro has been a city councilor for Managua and deputy in the National Assembly, also for Managua. On 25 June 2021, he became part of a wave of arrests of opposition and civic figures in Nicaragua."
tagline: "Nicaraguan journalist and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pedro_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Chamorro_Barrios.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1951-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             9.104544981077044
  historical:           2.413932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Chamorro_Barrios"
    title: "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Joaqu%C3%ADn_Chamorro_Barrios"
    title: "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Barrios"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107348824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations