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

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,

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

Mauricio Funes, former El Salvador President, died in Nicaragua at 65. Having governed El Salvador from 2009-2014, he spent his later years in Nicaragua to avoid corruption charges back home. Granted citizenship by Daniel Ortega,

Mauricio Funes, the former president of El Salvador, passed away in Nicaragua, where he fled in 2016 to escape corruption charges. The Nicaraguan government confirmed his death due to a chronic illness.

He governed El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. He lived his final nine years under the protection of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, whose government had given him citizenship, allowing him to avoid extradition. The former president had pending sentences in ...

Funes governed El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. He lived his final nine years under the protection of Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega, whose government had given him citizenship, allowing him to ...

Nicaragua’s Congress has approved a constitutional reform that would make President Daniel Ortega and his wife “copresidents” of the Central American nation.

Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega and his wife were granted control of all state powers Thursday under a constitutional amendment ratified by the country's legislature that also elevated her to the

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first visit to Latin America will be only to certain US allies, including a very complex meeting in Panama.

With Donald Trump as the new US president, pundits are speculating about how US policy towards Latin America might change. By John Perry and Roger D.