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That was Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former socialist president who passed away on 13 May 2025, vehemently rejecting his nickname of "the world's poorest president". He died in the same ramshackle ...

Jose Mujica is a politician and former president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, at his farm near Motevideo city, on April 13, 2011. Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images.

José Mujica—the former guerrilla fighter, political prisoner, philosopher, and Uruguayan President, known affectionately throughout Latin America as Pepe—died on Tuesday, at the age of eighty ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay: Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated ...

A woman watches the funeral procession of former President Jose Mujica from the presidential palace to the National Assembly, next to graffiti that reads in Spanish: "Farewell dear old man," in ...

José Mujica was often bemused by the label of “world’s poorest president”. The Uruguayan former guerrilla fighter drew global camera crews to the tiny nation throughout his 2010-15 term by ...

Former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica was a one-time guerrilla who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and lived on his farm. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Supporters walk behind the casket of Uruguay's former President Jose Mujica during his funeral procession from the presidential palace to the National Assembly in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday ...

Jose Mujica, former Uruguayan president and iconic leftist leader, passes away at 89, leaving behind a legacy of progressive reforms and a commitment to social justice that resonated across Latin ...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89.