The former president of the Republic was offered to move to North America, but prefers to remain in the country.
He former president of the Republic, José Mujicaruled out treating his illness abroad after being diagnosed with a tumor in the esophagus and after being offered treatment in USAsince he “trusts” Uruguayan doctors.
The leader of the Broad Front (FA) He thanked this Wednesday at a press conference for the offer, but clarified that “it is not going to go anywhere near the corner” and that he trusts in the ability of the doctors at the Uruguaysince, “at his age” he will seek to “mend what he can around here in the neighborhood.”
“I have had checkups from all sides, the matter is localized, it is a type of cellular variant that is very attackable by radiation and it is almost certain that the treatment they are going to do is radiation,” he specified. Mujica.
In that sense, the former president pointed out that he is not scared because “everything that is born is born to die” and that “we have to accept it.” “I have been lucky, I have been shot, I have an immunological disease, I am living for free, I am going to complain,” he highlighted.
“I’m miraculously alive”
Likewise, he stated that he is “quite well for what he has experienced” and said that “he is ungrateful” and “he should believe in God“, since “he is miraculously alive” and would have to “thank life.”
“How nice it is to be Uruguayan, because people called me with whom we have been politically in conflict and have had problems, and it is notable,” he said in reference to the calls from the President of the Republic Luis Lacalle Pouthe former presidents Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera and Julio María Sanguinettiand the former senator and former leader of the Colorado Party (PC), Pedro Bordaberry.
In turn, he received calls from different parts of the world, especially from the Argentina, Braziland USAwhere he was offered treatment by a Uruguayan mutual insurance company.
Source: Ambito
