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. Funes governed El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. He lived his final nine years under the protection of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, whose government had…

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(Reuters) - 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. Read full story

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Former president fled El Salvador in 2016, accused of embezzling US$ 351 million. The first conviction was in 2023, Mauricio Funes, the first left-wing president of El Salvador (2009-2014), died this Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 after being accused in his country of corruption crimes, the Nicaraguan government said.
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Ex-mandatário fugiu de El Salvador em 2016, acusado de desviar US$ 351 milhões. Primeira condenação foi em 2023 Mauricio Funes, primeiro presidente de esquerda de El Salvador (2009-2014), faleceu nessa terça-feira aos 65 anos na Nicarágua, para onde fugiu em 2016 após ser acusado em seu país de crimes de corrupção, informou o governo nicaraguense.
"Infelizmente, Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, ex-presidente de El Salvador, (...) faleceu", anunc…

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By Merlin Delcid, CNN en Español The former president of El Salvador Mauricio Funes Cartagena died Tuesday night in Nicaragua, after a “serious chronic illness,” the Ministry of Health of the Government of Daniel Ortega said in a statement. Hours earlier, in another statement, they said that the 65-year-old president's health had been “aggravated by chronic ailments that have afflicted him.” CNN contacted the Government of Nicaragua for more det…

Por Merlín Delcid, CNN en Español El expresidente de El Salvador Mauricio Funes Cartagena murió la noche del martes en Nicaragua, tras una “grave dolencia crónica”, informó en un comunicado el Ministerio de Salud del Gobierno de Daniel Ortega. Horas antes, en otro comunicado, dijeron que la salud del mandatario, de 65 años, se había visto “agravada por dolencias crónicas que le han aquejado”. CNN se comunicó con el Gobierno de Nicaragua para obt…

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