Latin America is in mourning after the news broke that, following a long battle with cancer, the great José "Pepe" Mujica has passed away, leaving behind an enormous legacy of love, humility, and ...

Pepe Mujica was known as the poorest president in the world because he gave away much of his wealth - David Fernandez/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Uruguay’s former ...

Jose Mujica is a politician and former president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, at his farm near Motevideo city, on April 13, 2011. Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images. Get fearless, uncompromising ...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, leftist presidents from the region came to remember former President José Mujica on Thursday as a generous and charismatic ...

May 14 (UPI) --The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica. Political and social leaders across Latin America ...

José “Pepe” Mujica did not have much use for Uruguay’s three-story presidential residence, with its chandeliers, elevator, marble staircase and Louis XV furniture. “It’s crap,” he told me last year.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — In the soaring ...