Thirty-five years ago today, on February 25, 1990 (February 1, 1990 in the lunar calendar), Mrs. Chamorro was elected the first female president of Nicaragua. On February 25, 1990, Nicaragua's general election was announced. The current president, the candidate of the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front, Ortega, lost, and the candidate of the National Opposition Alliance, Mrs. Oleta-Chamorro, was elected President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female president in the history of the country and Central America. Mrs. Chamorro was born in October 1929 in a wealthy family of farmers in the small town of Rivas in southern Costa Rica. She had no ambition to enter politics since childhood and only wanted to be a secretary. In 1948, her father died, and she returned to her hometown before completing her studies. Afterwards, she met and married Pedro Joaquin Chamorro, the son of the Chamorro family. Fate and opportunity later put her on the stage of political struggle. The Chamorro family is a famous family in Nicaragua and a traditional "political family". It was the family that made up Nicaragua's first and subsequent presidents after independence. By the time of the Somoza dictatorship, the family had become the opposition. Chamorro used his newspaper La Prensa as a platform to fight against the Somoro dictatorship. For this reason, he was arrested several times and fled abroad; in January 1978, Mr. Chamorro was brutally murdered, and Mrs. Chamorro continued to participate in the struggle against the Somoro dictatorship. In July 1979, the Sandinista National Liberation Front overthrew the Somoros' 40-year dictatorship. Mrs. Chamorro became a member of the revolutionary government's five-member council. But, nine months later, she resigned from Nicaragua's revolutionary government, which, in her own words, had failed to deliver on its promise to bring democracy to Nicaragua. From then on, Mrs. Chamorro became the opposition to the Sandinista government. Mrs. Chamorro's gentle manner and her absence from any faction of the 14 opposition coalitions made her more than partisan and easier to support by voters. Although she broke her kneecap in an accident, she still insisted on running for president. Mrs. Chamorro campaigned on the slogan of "peace and reconciliation," stopping civil strife and reviving the economy. She advocated privatizing the economy and guaranteeing the ownership of land to farmers who have been allocated land. Diplomatically, she advocated efforts to improve relations with the United States and continue to "maintain relations with countries around the world, including Cuba, the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries." On February 25, Mrs. Chamorro took over the scepter from Ault as scheduled and was sworn in as president. The term of office was six years. Political contradictions in Nicaragua, which has suffered from long-term war, are extremely sharp, and Mrs. Chamorro rose to the presidency after overcoming one obstacle after another. After Mrs. Chamorro came to power, she faced three major problems: first, the problem of restoring the economy; second, the problem of disbanding the rebels; and third, the problem of unity with the ruling party.