Others who died in January include: figure skater Dick Button, French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, singer Wayne ...

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, Jan. 21. He was ...

By Adam Nossiter 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 ...

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Former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes has died in Nicaragua, a haven he sought since 2016 to escape corruption charges. The 65-year-old passed due to a 'serious chronic illness,' according to ...

Mauricio Funes, former President of El Salvador (2009-2014), died at 65 in Nicaragua, where he had sought refuge to avoid corruption charges. Funes faced multiple convictions related to corruption ...

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 ...

(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.

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.