CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 10, 1991 | PATT MORRISON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Nicaraguan President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, elected just over a year ago on the heels of a debilitating civil war, on Thursday asked U.S. companies to consider doing business with Nicaragua. She assured potential investors that she knows "it is absolutely necessary that peace and democracy exist" before businesses would be willing to take a chance on her country.