Nora Josefina Astorga Gadea de Jenkins was a Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter in the Nicaraguan Revolution, a lawyer, politician, judge and the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations from 1986 to 1988.
14 Facts About Nora Astorga
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Nora Astorga was the first child of Segundo Astorga, a lumber exporter and rancher with connections to the powerful ruling Somoza family, and his wife Mierrel Gadea.
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In 1967, Nora Astorga announced to her family's dismay that she supported Fernando Aguero, not his opponent Anastasio Somoza Debayle, in the presidential election.
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Nora Astorga had four children, two with her husband, two with Jose Maria Alvarado, a member of the Sandinistas.
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Nora Astorga later returned to Nicaragua and studied law at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua.
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Nora Astorga gained national attention for her participation in the botched kidnapping and murder of General Reynaldo Perez Vega.
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Nora Astorga was practically Somoza's second in command, the one who conducted all those murderous operations in the north, the one who massacred so many in Masaya.
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Nora Astorga became the subject of a national manhunt and next appeared to the Nicaraguan public on the pages of La Prensa, the nation's opposition newspaper.
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Nora Astorga was wearing jungle fatigues and carrying an AK-47 assault rifle.
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Nora Astorga had escaped to the jungle and joined the Sandinista revolutionaries.
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Nora Astorga became a deputy representative to the United Nations in 1984, and in March 1986, became the Nicaraguan ambassador to that body, a position she held until her death in 1988.
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Nora Astorga was instrumental in getting the United Nations to recognize a ruling by the International Court of Justice, Nicaragua v United States, that declared the United States' support for the Contras illegal.
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Nora Astorga was awarded the title "Hero of the Fatherland and Revolution" and the Order of Carlos Fonseca in July 1987, which was the highest order of Nicaragua at the time.
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Nora Astorga appears as one of the twelve apostles in the mural of the Visitacion at Casa Ave Maria in Managua.