Mauritio Funes, President of Salvadan

In his first years he partially fulfilled his promises in the office, provided school needs and uniforms, built hospitals and reduced the price of medicine. During the civil war he gave conciliation manifestations, apologized for the right -wing government massacres of civilians and in 2010 for the assassination of 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romeroa wild critic of this regime.

Mr. Funes, however, soon became the victim of Svěrák, who usually affects the leader of his country, according to the prosecutors of Salvador: Corruption. In a month, his credit card expenses were equal to what he earned in a year, $ 41,000, according to El Faro. And any negotiations that led the gangs was ineffective. By 2015, killing reached 100 per 100,000 people, the highest in Central America.

Carlos Mauritio Funes Cartagena was born in the capital of San Salvador, October 18, 1959, son of Robert Funes, accountant and Maria Mirna Cartagen, secretary. He attended high school at Colegio External San José in San Salvador, where he later became a teacher and studied at the Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas, but also in the capital, but graduated.

In 1986, Mr. Funes became a television reporter for the educational channel El Salvador. A year later he went to work for a private channel 12, where he covered policy and gained the reputation of his conversations with left -wing leaders and curious investigative journalism. Wide following helped to attract the attention of FMLN officials.

His marriage to Vanda Pignato ended in divorce in 2014. His survivors include his sons, Carlos, Diego and Gabriel; and brother Guillermo Funes Cartagena.

Mr. Funes’s fall of grace confused many of those who knew him.

“Over the years I have spoken to some of its closest officials,” Salvador’s political journalist Martinez he wrote After Mr. Funes’s death: “And when I explored the question of what happened with a great political promise of the post -war period, the answer was as disappointing as the loot: was blinded by luxury, vice and waste.”