US EditionMourners from all corners of Uruguay bid farewell to iconic former President José Mujica
- Thousands of mourners poured into Montevideo on Wednesday to farewell former President José Mujica, an iconic Latin American leftist leader.
- Mujica died at 89 on Tuesday at his lifelong three-room farmhouse, days before his 90th birthday after an esophageal cancer diagnosis in April 2024.
- The funeral procession started at government headquarters, led by President Yamandú Orsi and Mujica's partner Lucía Topolansky, and ended nearly four hours later at parliament amid banners and wreaths.
- The government declared national mourning through Friday with flags at half-staff, praising Mujica's 'humanist philosophy' and expecting left-wing leaders, including Lula and Boric, to attend.
- Mujica is remembered for humility and ideological earnestness, transforming Uruguay into a socially liberal democracy despite a past as a Tupamaros guerrilla and bank robber in the 1960s.
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As a vocal critic of capitalism, he was one of the icons of the New Left, especially in South America.
Obituary: Jose Mujica, Uruguayan Marxist guerrilla who later became ‘the world’s poorest president’
Jose Mujica, who has died aged 89, was a Marxist terrorist who reinvented himself to become a popular liberalising president of Uruguay in his 1970s. Ostentatiously rejecting the rewards of office, he earned the soubriquet “the world’s poorest president”.
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King Charles III mourns Mujica's passing
King Charles III wrote a message to the Uruguayan people and former President José Mujica's family expressing his solidarity in these times of mourning. Mujica died on Tuesday aged 89, after battling esophageal cancer.
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