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From a Tin-Roof Shack, Pepe Mujica Removed the Pomp From Politics
The former Uruguayan president, who died on Tuesday, showed the value in world leaders living like their constituents.
José Mujica, Uruguay’s humble president who changed his country and charmed the world, dies at 89
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...
Uruguay declares three days of national mourning for former President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica
The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" ...
Al Jazeera English5d
Uruguay’s Jose Mujica, a president famed for sparse living, dead at 89
Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media ...
The New Yorker1d
Pepe Mujica’s Long Revolution
For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.
Buenos Aires Times3d
Pepe Mujica and Lucía Topolansky: Uruguay's legendary revolutionary power duo
The death of former Uruguayan president José 'Pepe' Mujica brought the curtain down on one of the great love stories of Latin ...