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I need capitalism to work, because I have to levy taxes and attend to the serious problems we have,
We are going to miss you very much dear old man,
Uruguay’s current president, ... Yamandú Orsi said as he announced his death on X on Tuesday We will miss you greatly, dear old man. Thank you for everything you gave us and for your profound love for your people,
Your work and your words are a legacy, both a path and a hope,
I want to convey to all the young people that life is beautiful, but it wears out and you fall,
he said following a cancer diagnosis We can't pretend to agree on everything. We have to agree with what there is, not with what we like,
I do not defend drug use. But I can't defend (a ban) because now we have two problems: drug addiction, which is a disease, and narcotrafficking, which is worse,
He defended democracy like few others. And he never stopped advocating for social justice and the end of all inequalities,
said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva He felt and lived like ordinary people, not like today's politicians who seem rich,
the 53-year-old waiter said His human greatness transcended the borders of Uruguay and his presidential mandate. The wisdom of his words formed a true song of unity and fraternity for Latin America,
The problem is that the world is run by old people, who forget what they were like when they were young,
Mujica said during a 2024 interview with the news agency Reuters It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of our comrade Pepe Mujica,
We elect a president, and it’s as if they’re a candidate to be king, someone with a court, a red carpet, who has to live in a fancy palace, ... Don’t blame the pig, but those who scratch his back.”
he told Al Jazeera in 2022, before adding with characteristic bluntness I believe that politicians should live like the majority of their people, not like how the privileged minority lives,
Honestly, I’m dying,
Mujica told the weekly magazine Busqueda in what he said would be his last interview We deeply regret the passing of our beloved Pepe Mujica, an example to Latin America and the entire world for his wisdom, foresight, and simplicity,
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on social media If you left us anything, it was the unquenchable hope that things can be done better,
To keep myself sane, I began to remember things I’d read, things I’d thought when I was young. Later, I dedicated myself to changing the world, and I didn’t read anything. I couldn’t change the world, but what I’d read when I was young helped me,
he told the Spanish newspaper El País in an interview after his release We have built self-exploiting societies. You have time to work but not to live,
This is the tragedy of life, on the one hand it’s beautiful, but it ends,
Mujica told The Associated Press from his farmhouse in an October 2023 interview
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