He was a pre-candidate for president in the 2021 Nicaraguan general election until he was detained in a wave of arrests of opposition candidates and other civic leaders.

[1] He attended Colegio Centro América,[1] then college at the University of San Francisco, graduating magna cum laude in economics.

[1] From 2002 to 2006, Chamorro served a number of different roles in the administration of President Enrique Bolaños: Director General of the Millennium Challenge Account Nicaragua; Deputy Minister of Finance and Public Credit; Technical Secretary of the Presidency of the Republic and Coordinator of the National Public Investment System.

[5] Chamorro is executive director of economic think tank FUNIDES and represented the business sector in the 2018 National Dialogue, as a leader of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy (ACJD) opposition to the government of President Daniel Ortega.

[8] On June 8, 2021, Chamorro García was arrested, the fourth opposition candidate to be detained by the ruling party.