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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 ...
Mourners wept, raised their arms and marched behind the flag-draped casket of former President José Mujica on Wednesday as ...
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.
José Mujica, who has died aged 89, was a Marxist terrorist who reinvented himself to become a popular liberalising president ...
Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a ...
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...
The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" ...
He oversaw an economic boom, a reduction in poverty and the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and marijuana.
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a one-time Marxist guerrilla and flower farmer whose brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated people around the world ...