This was the presidency of José "Pepe" Mujica: highlights and shadows of five years that went down in history.

Analysis by Darío Klein, CNN en Español The presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica (2010-2015) was characterized by constant surprises, protocol departures, bombastic declarations, and historic transformations, but also by failures, controversies, and questions from the opposition. His presidency revolutionized the local and international political environment with laws that expanded individual rights: the abortion decriminalization law, the same-sex …

Analysis by Darío Klein, CNN en Español The presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica (2010-2015) was characterized by constant surprises, protocol departures, bombastic declarations, and historic transformations, but also by failures, controversies, and questions from the opposition. His presidency revolutionized the local and international political environment with laws that expanded individual rights: the abortion decriminalization law, the same-sex …

Latinus The ex-mandatario died on Tuesday at 89 years of age in Montevideo after being diagnosed with cancer The laws of the decriminalization of abortion, the regulation of cannabis for recreational use and the marriage between people of the same sex were the three great milestones of the presidency of José “Pepe” Mujica in Uruguay, deceased this Tuesday at 89 years of age in Montevideo, whose government marked a before and after. On November 1…

Thoughtful and philosophical, strategic and political, biting and polemic. With ironic and witty tone or just as charming, José spoke "Pepe" Mujica in interviews and much-noticed speeches hundreds of sentences, which, thanks to his stratospheric popularity, became cult phrases. "I have a gift: the magic of the word," he said when, after he assured [...] The post José "Pepe" Mujica, the magician of the words first appeared on latinapress News.

Light baggage, José Mujica does not charge his departure with a vital weight measured in kilos but in utopias: those for which he fought and resisted years of torture and imprisonment and then became a president as unique as popular all over the world.Read more]]>

No voice as coherent on the Latin American left as that of José Mujica. While others strayed from inflammatory rhetoric, in demagogic excesses without correlation with the world of the verifiable or personal privileges without account, Pepe, as they called it, chose the brutal congruence of living as he spoke. Without armored cars or hollow speeches, Mujica ruled from that version of the South American farm that is a chacra and without any tie. …