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In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President ...
Pepe Mujica died last week. Today, he would have turned 90. People across Uruguay are still celebrating his life. This is episode 36 of Stories of Resistance.
In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President Jose ...
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, has passed away at the age of 89, leaving behind a legacy of social and ...
Mujica spent over a decade in prison for resisting the state he would one day lead. His death this week has brought much soul ...
For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.
The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.
As president, he commuted from his home: a cluttered, three-room shack the size of a studio apartment, crammed with a wood ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to ...
Montevideo, May 15 (RHC)--The Legislative Palace, where the remains of former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica were ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring palace of ... an example for the world’s politicians. “A person like Pepe Mujica doesn’t die,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ...
Uruguay's first post-dictatorship president reflects on his relationship with his political rival and how they went from ...