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 ...

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.

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.

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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 ...