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. By Adam Nossiter Mauricio Funes ...

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. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a ...

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 ...

Caracas.- Funes murió debido a una severa enfermedad crónica y residía en el exilio después de ser perseguido por las autoridades de El Salvador. El Ministerio de Salud de Nicaragua comunicó ...

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.

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.

La dictadura de Nicaragua confirmó en horas de la madrugada de este miércoles la muerte de Carlos Mauricio Funes, ex presidente de El Salvador y prófugo de la justicia de ese país.

Funes gobernó el país de 2009 a 2014.Fue el segundo expresidente de El Salvador en ser condenado por actos de corrupción en la historia reciente. El primero fue Elías Antonio Saca, quien aún ...

SAN SALVADOR — El expresidente salvadoreño Mauricio Funes, que llegó a la política tras una carrera como periodista que denunciaba irregularidades y que pasó sus últimos años exiliado en ...