US EditionMourners from all corners of Uruguay bid farewell to iconic former President José Mujica
- Thousands of mourners gathered in Montevideo on Wednesday to bid farewell to former President José Mujica.
- Mujica, who died Tuesday at his farmhouse days before turning 90, was a former guerrilla and leader of the Tupamaros in the 1960s.
- During his 2010-2015 presidency, Mujica transformed Uruguay into a socially liberal democracy while rejecting the opulent presidential mansion for a simple life.
- Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi declared national mourning from Wednesday to Friday, praising Mujica's "humanist philosophy," with his coffin lying in state before Thursday's funeral.
- The funeral procession passed through downtown Montevideo to parliament, drawing high emotions and expected attendance from left-wing leaders including Brazil's Lula and Chile's Boric.
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This was the massive attendance at Pepe Mujica's wake in Montevideo - La Tercera
Thousands of people formed a long line yesterday Wednesday to fire the former Uruguayan president, waiting for up to two hours to enter the Legislative Palace of Uruguay. This Thursday, Presidents Gabriel Boric and Lula da Silva will join the farewell.
Thank you, Pepe, forever!, the people's cry in farewell
Montevideo. Between tears, cries of encouragement and gratitude, the Uruguayans yesterday fired José Mujica, the former guerrilla who came to the presidency of his country and became a referent of the Latin American left. President Yamandú Orsi, political heir of Mujica, led, along with Lucía Topolansky, wife of Pepe, the funeral procession that departed from the seat of the Executive in a procession that toured the streets of the Uruguayan capi…
Colorado Springs Gazette
Mourners from all corners of Uruguay bid farewell to iconic former President José Mujica
Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital 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 most for his humility, simple lifestyle and…
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica’s last farewell
A funeral procession on horseback guarding the body of José ‘Pepe’ Mujica has visited the streets of Montevideo this Wednesday, stopping at the most emblematic sites of the trajectory of the former Uruguayan president. Mujica died yesterday at 89 years old, after having received palliative care for a cancer that suffered. It is expected that in the next few hours Lula da Silva, Gabriel Boric and other important figures from the left of Latin Ame…
Uruguay says goodbye to its former president "Pepe" Mujica
Between tears and applause, thousands of Uruguayans said farewell Wednesday to the popular former president José Mujica (2010-2015), figure of the Latin American left, who died the day before a cancer at the age of 89.
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