The White House yesterday walked back President Trump’s order to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans. A ...

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

El expresidente de El Salvador Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) será enterrado en Nicaragua tras fallecer anoche a los 65 años "como resultado de su grave dolencia crónica", informó este miércoles ...

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 ...

His last sentence came just last year in June. He was sentenced to eight years in prison for receiving an airplane as a kickback for awarding a construction contract for a bridge project. He was ...

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 (January 21, 2025). He was 65. Nicaragua’s ...

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.

FILE - In this June 1, 2012 file photo, El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes stands in the National Assembly in San Salvador, El Salvador. Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes ...