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

Funes was given his last rites by Nicaraguan priest Antonio Castro Granados, it was also reported. Meanwhile, Funes' far-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party in ...

Mr. Funes denied any wrongdoing and described the cases as attempts to discredit his legacy and the party responsible for his rise, the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or FMLN ...

On the early morning of July 1, 2023, Redondo-Funes crossed the Georgia-Florida line along with his girlfriend, his niece, and three of his nephews. At the I-95, Funes reportedly suddenly slowed ...

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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.

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

Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal ...

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.