MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay's capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin American left, remembered …
President Yamandú Orsi pays respects at José Mujica’s funeral in Montevideo, standing solemnly beside the casket draped in the Uruguayan flag. May 14, 2025 Photo: EFE May 14, 2025 Hour: 7:10 pm As thousands mourn, President Orsi praises José Mujica’s …
Before José Mujica became president of Uruguay in 2010 he was best known as a former guerrilla leader who drove a battered 1987 powder-blue Volkswagen Beetle, grew chrysanthemums and lived in a dilapidated single-storey farmhouse 20 minutes outside …
Uruguay’s iconic President, Jose ‘Pepe’ Mujica, who served from 2010 to 2015, died on May 13 at the age of 89. Credit: Protoplasma K – CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr. José “Pepe” Mujica, iconic President of Uruguay, died Tuesday at 89. Mujica led the South …
Havana, May 14 (ACN) Pepe is back to Earth; he never dreamed of going to Heavens. Pepe who departed on Tuesday, was a simple, humble man committed to common struggles. His life was marked by rigor, sacrifice and for prison years and resistance. However, he …
Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi, left, stands with Lucia Topolansky, widow of the late, former President Jose Mujica, next to his casket at the presidential palace in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
Former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica. (Photo: Chiara FRRR, Via Wikimedia Commons) By Palestine Chronicle Staff “Mujica was a living conscience for the oppressed, a sincere voice for truth in an age of silence, and a rare example of …
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