Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador and a one-time television journalist who fled to Nicaragua to escape corruption investigations, died there Jan. 21, in Managua. He was 65.
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.
As a journalist, Funes interviewed world leaders such as Felipe González, Hugo Chávez, Fidel Castro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Former Salvadoran President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena ...
A Salvadoran court Monday sentenced former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) to 14 years in prison for his alleged negotiations with criminal gangs. Funes, currently living in Nicaragua ...
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.
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