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In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President ...
Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a ...
The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" ...
The funeral procession for the late former President Jose Mujica makes its way from the presidential palace to the National ...
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...
Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin ...
Uruguay’s president, Yamandú Orsi, Mujica’s protégé from his left-wing Broad Front party, declared Wednesday-to-Friday national days of mourning in a presidential decree that praised Mujica ...
Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, a leftist icon known for his progressive social reforms, died on Tuesday at the age of 89. “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of ...
"Mujica had been under treatment for cancer of ... enacting the region's first sweeping abortion rights law and establishing Uruguay as a leader in alternative energy.
FILE – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica poses for a photo with his dog, Manuela, at his home on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, May 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File) International ...
Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later President of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89.