Tag: Mauricio Funes

• Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 08:44 UTC

  Former Salvadoran President Funes dies in his Nicaraguan exile

  

  Former Salvadoran President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, better known as Mauricio Funes, died Tuesday local time in exile in Nicaragua where Daniel Ortega's Sandinista regime had granted him citizenship, the Health Ministry announced in a statement.

• Tuesday, May 30th 2023 - 10:32 UTC

  Former Salvadoran president convicted in absentia

  

  A Salvadoran court Monday sentenced former President Mauricio Funes (2009-2014) to 14 years in prison for his alleged negotiations with criminal gangs. Funes, currently living in Nicaragua, got 8 years for illicit groupings and 6 years for breach of duty. Nicaragua gave him citizenship in 2019.

• Monday, June 2nd 2014 - 07:55 UTC

  Former guerrilla commander sworn in as El Salvador president

  

  Former guerrilla commander Salvador Sanchez Ceren on Sunday was sworn in as president of El Salvador for the second consecutive five-year mandate of the FMLN, an ex-guerrilla movement and current political party.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 23:41 UTC

  Ecuador’s Correa and El Salvador’ Funes, leaders with the highest approval-rate

  

  Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and El Salvador Mauricio Funes have the highest approval ratings with 80% and 72% among presidents of the Americas, according to a report from Consulta Mitofsky. At the other extreme stand Sebastian Piñera from Chile, Laura Chinchilla from Costa Rica and Paraguayan Federico Franco with the lowest support.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2011 - 03:28 UTC

  Obama in El Salvador shifts from economic success to drugs and immigration

  

  President Barack Obama is nearing the end of a five-day tour of three Latin American nations to underscore the advance of democracy, and strong economic growth in the region.