He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador ... of 100 per 100,000 people, the highest in Central America. Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena was born in San Salvador, the capital ...

Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador and a one-time television journalist who fled to Nicaragua to escape corruption investigations, died there Jan. 21, in Managua. He was 65.

Others who died in January include: figure skater Dick Button, French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, singer Wayne ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio ... people and the international community.” Current Labor Minister Rolando Castro said via X that Funes’ “skills ...

Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in January (cause of death cited for younger people ... Jan. 20. Mauricio Funes, 65. A president of El Salvador who spent the final ...

January 2025 saw the loss of cultural icons like David Lynch, Marianne Faithfull, and Jean-Marie Le Pen. From music and film ...

What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there The U.S. government cannot deport American citizens and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that “there ...

Meanwhile, Bukele’s lackeys swear that El Salvador is still a Bitcoin-friendly country. But not that friendly. The push to adopt cryptocurrency has been a flop among normal people. Less than 12% ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said Monday that they’d struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship both detained migrants and imprisoned ...