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.

Leading El Salvador from 2009 to 2014, Funes was a bespectacled former TV journalist who modeled himself on moderate leftist leaders, despite heading a party of former Marxist rebels.

Por Merlín Delcid, CNN en Español El expresidente de El Salvador Mauricio Funes Cartagena murió la noche del martes en Nicaragua, tras una “grave dolencia crónica”, informó en un comunicado el Ministe

El Salvador's former president, Mauricio Funes, who came into politics after a career as a whistleblowing journalist, died Tuesday night in Nicaragua at the age of 65.