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In October 1996, de Leon became a deputy in the Central American Parliament.

During the next few years he worked as an international advisor and was an election monitor for the OAS.

In 1999 he joined the Guatemalan Republican Front ( FRG ), and was elected to the Congress in the November elections.

Then, on March 18, 2002, he resigned his seat in the Congress and from the FRG, declaring that he wished he had never accepted their leader Efraín Ríos Montt's invitation to join the party.

His intention was to write his memoirs and re involve himself in international work but he died while visiting Miami, United States, on 16 April ; probably from a diabetic coma.

National mourning was declared, he was given a state funeral and was posthumously awarded the Grand Collar of the Sovereign National Congress.