Mauricio Funes Cartagena, who in 2009 became El Salvador's first leftist president, died Tuesday night in Managua, Nicaragua, where he had lived since 2016. teleSUR
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00:00The Nicaraguan Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement the death on Tuesday night
00:06of the former president of El Salvador, Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena, as a result of his
00:13serious chronic illness.
00:16Mauricio Funes became president of El Salvador on the hand of the Farabundo MartĂ National
00:22Liberation Front, with 51.32% of the valid votes, and governed along with his vice president
00:31Salvador SĂĄnchez UrĂĄn from 2009 to 2014.
00:37Funes was living in Nicaragua since 2016 after being persecuted by Salvadoran authorities
00:45who accused him of investments, illicit entrenchment and bribery.