Mujica, who was president between 2010 and 2015, received the Cruz de Boyacá from Petro, and from Lula the Southern Cross. The meeting was in the garden of his house on the outskirts of Montevideo with his wife Lucia and in full recovery from a esophageal cancerat 89 years old. It looked for a few moments blue band that has a cross with the face of Simón Bolívar.
Yamandú Orsi, president-elect of Uruguay who will succeed Luis Lacalle Pou as of March 1, also participated in the meeting.
Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro paid tribute to Pepe Mujica
Petro expressed on several occasions his admiration for the former Uruguayan president, emblem of the Latin American left. The first leftist in power in Colombia formed the M-19 guerrilla in his youth and identifies with Mujica, who was part of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros (MLN-T).
“We both ended up leaving weapons behind because We understood that peace was the most important thing and the most revolutionary thing about a society,” Petro said when mentioning the incorporation of both into democratic political life.
When he was president, Mujica supported the peace process that led to the disarmament of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2017.
For his part, Lula, who is in Montevideo to attend the Mercosur summit Thursday and Friday, also went to Mujica’s house to award him the National Order of the Southern Cross.
It’s a recognition for “his tireless fight”Lula wrote in X. “An example for all of us“He added, along with a video of the moment he placed the necklace with the medal on Mujica, while he hugged him.
“I can tell you that of all the presidents I have met, been friends with, and invited over many years, Pepe Mujica is the most extraordinary person I have met“Declared Lula in the garden of the former president’s home.
“I am not a man of awards or medals. I am a man of the peoplethat I did what I could with my people and nothing more,” said Mujica.
Source: Ambito
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