Mauricio Funes, former president of El Salvador, está en “extrema gravedad” of salud anuncia régimen de Nicaragua

On By Littum

The ex-president of Salvador is down
The Salvadoran ex-president is under the protection of dictator Daniel Ortega. (Photo archive)

The regime of Daniel Ortega informed this Tuesday Mauricio Funes Cartagenaex presidente de El Salvador y prófugo de la justicia de ese país se encuentra en “una delicate situation of health, aggravated by chronic ailments”.

The communique, signed by the Ministry of Health of Nicaragua, indicates that the situation of Funes Cartagena is de “extreme pregnancy”, sin dar mayores details.

“The communication that is familiar with the hemos that decide to publish information, esperando que pueda el paciente Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena superar esta situación que desanlucantes es de extrema gravedad”, concluded about the note.

Mauricio Funes, 65 years, governed El Salvador from June 2009 to June 2014 and in 2019 he arrived in Nicaragua to evade eventual capture for at least four criminal cases opened against him.

Mauricio Funes Cartagena muestra la
Mauricio Funes Cartagena shows the card that accredits him as a Nicaraguan citizen since 2019.

El 30 de July 2019, Mauricio Funes Cartagena, su esposa, Ada Michel Guzmán, y sus hijos, Carlos Manuel Mauricio Velasco y Diego Roberto Funes Cañas, fueron declarados official ciudadanos nicaragüenses mediate la resolution número 3119, que se publicó en el diario oficial, La Gaceta.

La Fiscalía Salvadoreña accuses him of alleged embezzlement, illicit enrichment and malversation of unos 351 million dollars from the public budget en entramado que incluide a familiares, amigos y exfuncionarios.

La policía de El Salvador, por su parte, has activated la alerta roja de la Interpol para capturerloand last March the Supreme Court of Justice approved a request for extradition.