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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: San Salvador, El Salvador – 1 June 2009
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1. Mauricio Funes taking oath
2. Funes putting on presidential sash and waving to supporters
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Funes, El Salvador’s President:
"The government I lead, given its progressive and pluralistic character, will normalize diplomatic, commercial, and cultural relations with all countries in Latin America. This means an immediate re-establishment of diplomatic, commercial, and cultural ties with our sister nation, Cuba."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Havana – 5 October, 2010
4. Revolution Honour Guard standing to attention as Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes and Cuban President Raul Castro observe
5. Castro and Funes shaking hands
6. Tilt down from Cuban flag to Funes
5. Zoom out from Castro to wide of meeting
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: San Salvador, El Salvador – 9 October 2011
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6. Various of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greeting Salvador President Mauricio Funes and first lady Wanda Pignato
7. News conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador:
"I have expressed that the decision of my government for a sovereign and independent Palestine is a decision in which we feel very proud, in which we seek to settle a historic debt (to the Palestinians)."
9. Presidents shaking hands
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: San Salvador, El Salvador – 16 December, 2011
10. Donor countries, plus members of SICA (Central American Integration System), which are Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mauricio Funes, El Salvador President:
"The region faces losses of almost two billion dollars. The situation is more dramatic if you consider that this new damage is added to previous damage caused by other natural disasters that in many countries we were just beginning to recover from."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: San Jose, Costa Rica – 31 March, 2009
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12. Then US Vice President Joe Biden shaking hands with then President of El Salvador, Tony Saca, who introduces him to EL Salvador President-elect, Mauricio Funes
STORYLINE:
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.
Funes spent his last years in exile in Nicaragua to avoid serving several convictions for corruption and negotiating with gangs.
The Nicaraguan Health Ministry confirmed in a statement the death, which it attributed to "his serious chronic condition."
Funes ruled El Salvador from 2009 to 2014 but died in Nicaragua, where he lived in exile for the last nine years under the protection of Daniel Ortega’s government.
He was granted a Nicaraguan nationality to avoid being extradited and facing justice for the crimes he was accused of in El Salvador.
He received several convictions for which he accumulated more than 26 years in prison, but he never went to jail.
Funes became president through the former guerrilla Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a party that today opposes Nayib Bukele’s government.
Funes was born in the capital, San Salvador, on October 18, 1959.
Before entering politics, he was a war reporter and host of a talk show that addressed controversial issues, earning him great popularity.
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