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.
Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.
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 avoid extradition.
Nicaragua’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said that Funes’ family had decided he would be buried in Nicaragua.
The former president had pending sentences in El Salvador for corruption and making deals with
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