Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009.

Jan 22, 2025 · SAN SALVADOR (AP) — 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 Nicaragua para evitar cumplir varias condenas por corrupción y negociar con pandillas, murió el martes por l

Jan 28, 2025 · Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador and a one-time television journalist who fled to Nicaragua to escape corruption investigations, died there on Jan. 21, in Managua. He was 65.

Jan 29, 2025 · Mauricio Funes was a Salvadoran television journalist who served as president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. While in office he oversaw efforts to reduce crime and gang violence while introducing initiatives to aid the lower and middle classes. Learn more about Funes’s life and career.

Jan 22, 2025 · 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.

Jan 22, 2025 · El expresidente salvadoreño Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) fallecio este martes a los 65 años de edad en Nicaragua, donde se encontraba asilado, «como resultado de su grave dolencia crónica»,...

Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (San Salvador, 18 de octubre de 1959- Managua, 21 de enero de 2025) 2 fue un periodista y político salvadoreño naturalizado nicaragüense. 3 Se desempeñó como presidente de El Salvador desde el 1 de junio de 2009 hasta el 1 de junio de 2014 tras obtener la victoria en las elecciones del 15 de marzo de 2009 por e...

Jan 23, 2025 · 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 ...

Jan 22, 2025 · 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. Funes spent his last years in exile in Nicaragua to avoid serving several convictions for corruption and negotiating with gangs.

May 30, 2023 · SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration. Funes’ trial began in April with the former leader living in Nicaragua.