Jose Mugikika, the modest Uruguay president who changed his country and mocked the world, dies in 89

Former Uruguay President Jose MujicaThe Marxist guerrilla warfare and flower farms for one time, and its commercial mark died of democracy, simple philosophy and simple lifestyle, all over the world. It was 89.

His death was announced by Uruguayan President Yamand Usi. In a post on the social media platform X, Orsi Mujica described as “the president, activist, adulthood and leader.” When the injury was diagnosed.

Although the treatment left him weak and hardly, Majika reappeared on the political stage in the fall of 2024, when he carried a campaign for his left -wing alliance in the national elections that held his favorite candidate and his protection, Protégé, BearsTo the presidency.

In September 2024, his doctor stated that radiation had succeeded in eliminating a lot of tumor. But in January 2025, a metaphorian doctor announced that cancer in the esophagus had returned and spread to his liver. His self -illness and other medical problems led Mukica not to follow more treatment.

“Frankly, I am dying,” said Busqueda’s weekly magazine in what he said would be his final interview. “The warrior has the right to rest.”

During it 2010-2015 PresidencyThat Majika, widely known as “Bibi”, supervised the transformation of his small dove in South America into one of the world’s most liberal democracies in the world. He gained admiration at home and worship abroad for Marijuana codification Gay marriage, enacting the first law of abortion rights in the region and the establishment of Uruguay as a leader in alternative energy.