Background
He was a son of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Zelaya and wife Margarita Cardenal Argüello, paternal grandson of Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Bolaños and wife and cousin Ana María Zelaya Bolaños and maternal grandson of Julio Cardenal Argüello and wife and cousin Adela Argüello Cervantes (daughter of José María Argüello Peñalba and wife María Cervantes Montalván), both relatives of Leonardo Argüello, 66th President of Nicaragua. His great-grandparents were Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Alfaro, 39th President of Nicaragua, and wife María de la Luz Bolaños Bendaña.
He had two brothers, Jaime Chamorro Cardenal and Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, and two sisters, Ligia Chamorro Cardenal and Ana María Chamorro Cardenal, married to ... Holmann ... and mother of Eduardo and Hugo Holmann Chamorro.
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