The health of the historic leader of the Broad Front (FA) SE evidenced deteriorated this Sunday, when nOr he went to vote in the departmental elections.
Who if he did was his wife and former vice president Lucía Topolansky, who on Monday declared: “It is on the plateau, it is at term. It is a terminal situation. It is with palliative care. “
“I am more than 40 years ago with him and I’m going to be until the end; That was what I promised. What we try to do is reserve the intimacy of our family, but with a character like Pepe is half impossible, “he added.
Mujica announced the worsening of his health on Thursday, January 9, when he made public the extension of esophagus cancer that he tried for much of 2024 to the liver. “I’m dying”he said then, when he also asked to let him move calmly the last stage of his life: “The warrior has the right to his rest,” He stressed.
The sad news was communicated by the current Uruguayan president, Yamandú Orsi, Through his social networks: “With deep pain we communicated that our partner Pepe Mujica died. President, militant, referent and driver. We will miss you a lot of dear. Thanks for everything you gave us and for your deep love for your people“, wrote.
The life of José Mujica
Mujica announced that he suffered from esophagus cancer in April 2024 and soon began a radiotherapy treatment to combat the tumor, the only therapeutic alternative to the two chronic diseases that he also suffered. After the sessions that left it “undone”, and even in the middle of three hospitalizations within ten days in the early September, the former president remained active and present during the Electoral campaign That, finally, it resulted in a historical choice for the 609 list of the MPP and in Orsi as the winner of the Presidency.
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In this way, and as he had promised, he militated until the last moment, through presences in acts and, mostly, with interviews and participation in spots from his farm.
In addition to being a historic leader of both his sector and the Broad Front, Mujica was president of Uruguay Between 2010 and 2015. cataloged as one of the most progressive leaders of Latin America, Even among his contemporary peers of what was called the “big homeland”, in a wave of governments with leftist trends in the region; His government put the country at the forefront of individual rights with the decriminalization of abortionhe equal marriage and the regulation of cannabis consumption.
His professional political career began in 1989, when he was elected deputy and then, senator for the Frente Amplio. He also held the position of Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) Between 2005 and 2008, during the first front government of Tabaré Vázquez. After finishing his mandate as the 40th President of Uruguay, He was chosen a senator again for two consecutive periods, although in October 2020 he resigned from his bank. “The pandemic has thrown me,” he said in the middle of the crisis for the COVID-19referring to the need to take care of an autoimmune disease that suffered and also complicated the fight against cancer.
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His political history began much earlier, in the 1970s with his militancy in the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros (MLN -T)and for which he was a political imprison between 1972 and 1985, during the civic-military dictatorship, together with his wife Lucia Topolansky.
“I bathed with a glass of water and a trap like the desert people. And in absolute solitude, with some visit of my relatives once a month, of my mother particularly. It was hard,” he said in an interview many years later and acknowledged that from his arrest “he learned not to let himself be dominated by hate and fanaticism, and understand that there are accounts that are not charged and that you have to live forward.”
That moderate vision of the consequences of the dictatorship, which in his government resulted in the opposition to eliminating the expiration law, earned him several criticisms of organizations of relatives of the disappeared, with which he also poleminated in the last months of his life after affirming that there were false testimonies to imprison military.
Source: Ambito
