He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in ...

Former Salvadoran president, Mauricio Funes, died late on Tuesday in Nicaragua, where the leftist leader had been living ...

better known as Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday local time in exile in Nicaragua where Daniel Ortega's Sandinista regime had granted him citizenship, the Health Ministry announced in a statement.

Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena was born in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, on Oct. 18, 1959. He studied at the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua but did not graduate. During the ...

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 ...

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. (AP Photo/Luis Romero ...

Mauricio Funes, ex-president of El Salvador, passed away in Nicaragua, where he sought refuge from corruption charges since 2016. Funes, president from 2009 to 2014, was renowned for battling ...

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.

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.