Violeta Chamorro was the first female president in Latin America. In 1990, she defeated Daniel Ortega after a bloody civil war that left more than 50,000 dead in Nicaragua. Her most symbolic act as president was in September 1990, when thousands of weapons were buried in Managua's Parc de la Pau. She is also recognized for her work in democratizing the Central American country, which experienced almost 10 years of civil war following the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution in 1979.

A new diplomatic crisis in Spain, this time with the Nicaraguan government, on the eve of elections on 7 November, marked by the arrest of opposition leaders. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has summoned its ambassador to the Central American country for consultations after a harsh communiqué from the Nicaraguan executive in which it denounces Spanish interference in internal affairs and warns that it cannot give lessons in democracy. At this point, he refers to Catalonia and the GAL, "which forever and ever stained Spain with responsibility for crimes against humanity that have never been investigated or tried".