Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran President Who Fled to Nicaragua, Dies at 65 NYT Par : Adam Nossiter 28 janvier 2025 à 21:13 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. © Jose Cabezas/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesMauricio Funes greeted a group of Salvadoran students in 2011. His election two years earlier was considered a fresh start for a country battered by civil war.