Regendans"The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”
What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.
I met the “poorest president in the world” in late 2023. I had seen him before, at an event in Washington, DC, ten years earlier, but at that time, he was surrounded by wild throngs of adulators — shaking hands, snapping selfies, kissing babies. You might have thought he was a pop-star influencer rather than a man pushing eighty and the sitting president of a small, far-flung South American country. But this was the allure of Pepe: ex–guerrilla fighter, political prisoner turned president, viral phenomenon, philosopher, farmer, survivor.
When I finally had a chance to talk with José “Pepe” Mujica in person, he was no longer the president of Uruguay and had recently resigned from his seat in the country’s Senate due to declining health."
Full article :
https://jacobin.com/2025/10/pepe-mujica-uruguay-movements-strategy
