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- ↑ Navas, Lucía (28 February 2017). "Quieren nombrar heroína a doña Violeta Barrios de Chamorro" [Want to name Doña Violeta Barrios de Chamorro as heroine]. La Prensa (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ Buitrago Aguilar, Ilich (9 February 2015). "Objetan a Blanca Aráuz como heroína" [Objection to Blanca Aráuz as heroine]. La Prensa (in Spanish). Managua, Nicaragua. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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- ↑ "Conmemoran en San Rafael del Norte el tránsito a la inmortalidad de la heroína Blanca Arauz" [Commemoration in San Rafael del Norte with the changing of the guard for the immortal heroine Blanca Arauz] (in Spanish). San Rafael del Norte, Nicaragua: El 19. 3 June 2015. Archived from the original on 3 August 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Ley No. 927: Ley Que Declara Rubén Darío Héroe Nacional" [Law No. 927: Law Which Declares Rubén Darío National Hero](PDF) (in Spanish). Vol. CXX, no. 59. Managua, Nicaragua: La Gaceta. 31 March 2016. p. 2419. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Ruben Dario named Nicaragua's new national hero". The San Diego Union-Tribune . San Diego, California. EFE. 6 February 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2017.