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José Mujica, Uruguayan Marxist guerrilla who later became ‘the world’s poorest president’
José Mujica, who has died aged 89, was a Marxist terrorist who reinvented himself to become a popular liberalising president of Uruguay in his 70s; ostentatiously rejecting the rewards of office, he earned the soubriquet “the world’s poorest president”.
For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.
As president, he commuted from his home: a cluttered, three-room shack the size of a studio apartment, crammed with a wood ...
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In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José ...
I t is not a flashy country and José Mujica, who died on May 13th aged 89, became its epitome. As Uruguay’s president from ...
The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.
King Charles III wrote a message to the Uruguayan people and former President José Mujica's family expressing his solidarity ...
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