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    Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959) is a Salvadoran politician and former journalist who served as the 41st President of El Salvador...
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    Fabio Colindres [es], and the negotiations were overseen by President Mauricio Funes. The existence of the truce was alleged by the online newspaper El Faro...
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    March 2009. The main candidates were Rodrigo Ávila (ARENA) and Mauricio Funes (FMLN). Funes won the election with 51.3% of the vote and became the first...
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    FMLN candidate, Mauricio Funes, was elected President of El Salvador. On 10 February 2016, the El Salvador Supreme Court ruled that Funes would face a civil...
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    April 2007 he was chosen as the running mate of Mauricio Funes in the 2009 presidential election. Funes and Sánchez Cerén defeated the ruling Nationalist...
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    El Salvador on 1 June 2009, the same day that her husband, President Mauricio Funes appointed her as the country's Secretary of Social Inclusion from 2009...
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  • gang members and resulted in prison overcrowding. Saca's successor, Mauricio Funes, ended some policies of Super Mano Dura, such as mass raids of gang...
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    2009, Mauricio Funes, a television figure, became the first president from the FMLN. He was inaugurated on 1 June 2009. One focus of the Funes government...
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  • footballer Mauricio Funes (born 1959), president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014 Mauricio Galguera (born 1958), Mexican painter Mauricio González-Gordon...
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  • candidate Mauricio Funes, a former journalist, won the presidency. This was the first victory of a leftist political party in El Salvador's history. Funes took...
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    Christian Democratic Party in the UNIDAD coalition. Incumbent President Mauricio Funes was ineligible to run for a consecutive second term. Sánchez Cerén and...
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    Minister of National Defense of El Salvador on 1 June 2009 by President Mauricio Funes. He served until 23 November 2011 and replaced by José Atilio Benítez...
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    former Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes accused Bukele, deputy Guillermo Gallegos, Director of the National Civil Police Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, and Intelligence...
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  • cooperation with Don Bosco University. In 2010, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes awarded the National Culture Prize (Premio Nacional de Cultura 2010)...
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    Salvadoran government's current crackdown. In 2012, during the presidency of Mauricio Funes, the Salvadoran government paid MS-13 US$25 million as part of the 2012–2014...
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    took out a full-page ad in a Salvadoran newspaper calling on President Mauricio Funes to recognise the interim Honduran government of Roberto Micheletti installed...
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    candidates won four consecutive presidential elections until the election of Mauricio Funes of the FMLN in March 2009. In 2014, he was followed by another FMLN...
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    politician and former Minister of Finance during the administrations of Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sánchez Cerén. Cáceres was born on 12 October 1950. He...
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    the Salvadoran economy and adopted the US dollar as legal currency. Mauricio Funes won the 2009 presidential election ending 20 years of ARENA rule and...
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  • in the Mejicanos massacre. The massacre, which Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes and the National Civil Police described as a terrorist attack, remains...
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  • Jewish-Spanish Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 1959), a Salvadorian politician, president starting...
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  • astronomer Juan Gilberto Funes, Argentine footballer Louis de Funès, French actor Luis Funes, Argentine politician Mauricio Funes, former President of El...
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    accused by Bukele of being a double agent for former Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes. Muyshondt was admitted to the Hospital Saldaña in October 2023 after...
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    he was Inspector of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. On May 31, 2009 Mauricio Funes named David Victoriano Munguía Payés as Minister of National Defense...
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    advertising for the FMLN presidential campaigns of Schafik Hándal in 2004 and Mauricio Funes in 2009.: 239  Bukele was president of Yamaha Motors El Salvador, a...
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    progressive profile with a focus on human rights. On 1 June 2009, President Mauricio Funes appointed her Minister of Labor and Social Welfare in the first left-wing...
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  • died on March 8, 2004, of natural causes, while in American custody. Mauricio Funes, a former president of El Salvador (2009–2014), was convicted and sentenced...
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    General, president of the Federal Republic of Central America, 1825–1829 Mauricio Funes, former president Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president...
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    Minister of El Salvador from 2009 until 2013 under former President Mauricio Funes and again from 2014 to 2018 within the government of President Salvador...
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    years in prison. On the 20th anniversary of the massacre, President Mauricio Funes awarded the Order of José Matías Delgado, Grand Cross with Gold Star...
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