JOURNALIST

Mauricio Funes

1959 - 2025

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Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009. Funes and his immediate family lived in exile in Nicaragua from 2016 until his death because of allegations of criminal actions during his tenure. In July 2023, he was placed under sanctions by the U.S. State Department following his conviction in absentia for negotiations related to the gang truces he made while in office, illicit enrichment, and tax evasion. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mauricio Funes has received more than 396,789 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Mauricio Funes is the 51st most popular journalist (up from 53rd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from El Salvador (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Salvadoran Journalist.

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  • 400k

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  • 58.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Mauricio Funes ranks 51 out of 196Before him are Maria Ressa, Eve Arnold, Marta Hillers, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Edward R. Murrow, and Marion Dönhoff. After him are Sue Gardner, Yuri Bezmenov, Kazimierz Nowak, Robbie Ross, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Francesco Alberoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Mauricio Funes ranks 145Before him are Sigmar Gabriel, Roberto Moreno, Ildefonso Falcones, David Koresh, Ezzaki Badou, and Éric Serra. After him are Nir Barkat, Akhmed Zakayev, Michel Onfray, Majid Majidi, Toni Servillo, and Pete Burns. Among people deceased in 2025, Mauricio Funes ranks 26Before him are Oliviero Toscani, David Lodge, Frits Bolkestein, Ferdi Tayfur, Anastasios of Albania, and Thanin Kraivichien. After him are Eva Klein, David Vunagi, Robert Hübner, Renato Corsetti, Fabio Cudicini, and Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat.

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In El Salvador

Among people born in El Salvador, Mauricio Funes ranks 10 out of 39Before him are Nayib Bukele (1981), Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (1882), Farabundo Martí (1893), Unica Zürn (1916), Mágico González (1958), and José Napoleón Duarte (1925). After him are Alfredo Cristiani (1947), Fidel Sánchez Hernández (1917), Jaime Rodríguez (1959), Gregorio Rosa Chávez (1942), Armando Calderón Sol (1948), and Arturo Armando Molina (1927).

Among JOURNALISTS In El Salvador

Among journalists born in El Salvador, Mauricio Funes ranks 1