Jose mujica biography book english

By Stephen Gregory

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Toward the end of his administration (), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalisation and anti-climate change - all fuelled by a libertarian socialist concept of freedom.

This Sancho Panza-like figure was not only one of the few presidents of developing countries not to have somehow got personally rich while in government, but was known to live modestly as a practicing farmer and gave away two-thirds of his salary to his left-wing political organisation and to social housing projects.

Even more bizarre was the fact that he had become president of the country whose governme