He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.
Mauricio Funes, a former journalist in El Salvador who was elected president in 2009 as a left-leaning outsider promising to battle corruption but later fled the country amid probes into graft and ...
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Former El ...
Former El Salvador president Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, has died aged 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said Mr Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.
El Salvador's former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing journalist, died Tuesday night in Nicaragua at the age of 65.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.
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Former Salvadoran President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, better known as Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday local time in exile in Nicaragua where Daniel Ortega's Sandinista regime had granted him citizenship,
El Salvador's ex-president Mauricio Funes died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled two years after leaving office and gained asylum following accusations of corruption in
Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65.
Former Salvadoran president, Mauricio Funes, died late on Tuesday in Nicaragua, where the leftist leader had been living since 2016 to avoid corruption charges in his home country. He was 65. Nicaraguan authorities confirmed the death of Funes,