Uruguay bids farewell to beloved former president José "Pepe" Mujica

The death of José “Pepe” Mujica leaves the Uruguayan left orphaned.

The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, declared on Thursday Official Duel throughout the island for the physical departure of the former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica. READ ALSO: Uruguay pays final tribute to the life and legacy of “Pepe” Mujica The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba in an official statement declared: “with deep regret, our people learned of the death of the former President of the Eastern Republic of Urugu…

Uruguay bids farewell to beloved former president José "Pepe" Mujica

Mujica’s passing marks the end of an era in Uruguayan politics, but for many, his legacy of humility, compassion, and service to the marginalized will endure.

This closes the long life of the tireless political operator who thus functioned until his last hours. Almost 90 years of the guerrilla, political prisoner, parliamentarian, president, but also philosopher and peasant. His death was announced by President Yamandú Orsi on social networks. Mujica officially died at 16:00 local time, according to his personal doctor Raquel Penone, in his chacra on the outskirts of Montevideo. So far was President O…

Why not a saint for atheists? Why not a secular pope? I have the candidate, Pepe Mujica, a man who demonstrated that one can be a Christian without believing in God, that one can live a life more in keeping with the message of Christ than many – almost all, I would dare say – of those who praise him every Sunday at an altar.

The emptiness that Pepe Mujica has left us, this venerable and venerable old man who, after having given everything for his people, has given himself to convey his political, social and philosophical wisdom, has not been less painful. With great generosity he has allowed us to taste the immense quality of his sense of coexistence, he has given us an example of how to do politics from respect, simplicity and humility.