El salvador (carlos mauricio funes cartagena)
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MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Former Salvadoran President Funes dies in his Nicaraguan exile
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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.
”The Ministry of Health of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity of the Republic of Nicaragua, by this means, complies with informing that, unfortunately, the patient citizen Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, former president of El Salvador, with residence in our country, has died tonight, at 21:35 hours (03:45 GMT Wednesday), as a result of his serious chronic ailment,” the document read. Funes was given his last rites by Nicaraguan priest Antonio Castro Granados, it was also reported.
Meanwhile, Funes' far-left Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) political party in El Salvador also released a communiqué attesting to the organization's “dismay” over Funes' passing.
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Mauricio Funes
President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Funes and the second or maternal family name is Cartagena.
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wingFarabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009.
Funes and his immediate family lived in exile in Nicaragua from 2016 until his death because of allegations of criminal actions during his tenure. In July 2023, he was placed under sanctions by the U.S. State Department following his conviction in absentia for negotiations related to the gang truces he made while in office, illicit enrichment, and tax evasion.[2] Funes died in exile in Nicaragua in 2025.
Early life and education
[edit]Funes was born in San Salvador. He received his high school diploma (bachillerato) from the Externado San José,[3] and studied at Universidad Centroamericana but did not graduate.[4] Both Externado and UCA are Jesuit institutions, and Funes has mentioned his relationship to the Jesuits
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