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 ...

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 ...

José Mujica, who has died aged 89, was a Marxist terrorist who reinvented himself to become a popular liberalising president ...

The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...

He oversaw an economic boom, a reduction in poverty, and the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and marijuana.

The funeral procession for the late former President Jose Mujica makes its way from the presidential palace to the National ...

The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" ...

Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President Jose Mujica, ...

The militant-turned-politician was an icon of the left in Latin America.