The ex-president Jose Mujica confirmed that he began radiotherapy treatment, as part of his fight against a cancer of the esophagus, when expressed during an activity of the Popular Participation Movement (MPP) in Florida, which was his first political activity after the diagnosis.
“They started treating me. Every day I have radiation to my belly. I’m going to give it,” he said. Mujica when providing details of the treatment against his disease, which did not metastasize, as confirmed by his wife and former vice president Lucia Topolansky.
The former president performs radiotherapy at the Cor Clinic, founded by the former president Tabare Vazquez and which Álvaro Vázquez, his son, is currently driving, according to Telemundo.
Regarding his state of health, Mujica He warned after the activity: “I can’t go overboard. “I can’t do five or six acts anymore.” And he clarified: “I went out today and now I’m going home to drink mate and stay calm.”
Mujica, on the false complaint against Yamandú Orsi
When entering the political arena, the former president referred to the false complaint against the pre-candidate of the Broad Front, Yamandú Orsi, by Romina Celeste Pappaso and Paula Díaz. “There is a political operation, but it is not for politics. There are people who are chewing money, there is no doubt,” he assured.
On the other hand, Mujica referred to the impacts of the drought on agriculture and noted: “It is criminal that Uruguay do not generate a irrigation policy, We have a law approved. Maybe they don’t like it… Let’s change it.”
“It has been there for 10 years and we have not regulated it, we are a bunch of idiots,” the MPP leader was honest and questioned: “Then comes the drought and we say how horrible the drought is, but when we have excess water we don’t save it.”
The support of leaders of the Frente Amplio
Mujica’s first intervention in political life after the diagnosis was celebrated on social networks by leaders from different sectors of the Broad Front. One of the most affectionate was Orsi’s senator and campaign manager, Alejandro “Pacha” Sánchez, who wrote in X: “Pepe had radiotherapy on Wednesday and today he went to Plaza de Florida to chat with people. “Talk to me about love for militancy and people, you’re a great old man!”
Your pair Daniel Caggiani He also shared an image of the former president and noted: “Now, Pepe in Florida is out fighting with his colleagues so that Orsi is the next president and gives us a new popular victory for our Uruguayan people.”
Meanwhile, the legislator Charles Carrera Leal He highlighted Mujica as “an example of struggle and love for militancy” and completed: “The Old Man was great!”
Source: Ambito
