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

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

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

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.

San Salvador, on Oct. 18, 1959. He studied at the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua but did not graduate. During the 1980s, he hosted a popular talk show on Canal 12, which was the only ...