“I dedicated myself to changing the world and I didn’t change a damn, but I was entertained,” he responds. Pepe Mujica In an interview published by The Country. The former Uruguayan president has just overcome esophageal cancer at the age of 89 and will soon experience the second round of a close presidential election, although it will be the second time he has done so as a spectator.
In the newspaper interview The Country, Mujica is as optimistic as we have seen in recent weeks. A former president who looks death in the face, grateful for the complicated life he has had to live, and who believes that there are possibilities for his Frente Amplio: “We can win. It is not easy, but we can win because we have a good candidate. We did a good campaign,” he concludes.
Mujica shows that he is no stranger to the wave of far-right populism that devastates the worldand of which they have a close example: the Argentina of Javier Milei. “If liberalism is that, it’s filth“, he says when asked about the Argentine president, Jair Bolsonaro either donald trumpwhom he accuses of having turned liberalism into “an economic recipe book.”
It is not the first time that the former Uruguayan president has confronted the ultra politicians of his region. In the past he stated that Bolsonaro had political responsibility for the assaults in Brasilia after his defeat in the elections against Lula, or said that Milei’s policies were “crazy.”
Pepe Mujica and the Frente Amplio are an example in which many leftists look at each other. “The left has to learn to find middle paths that make the most important thing sustainable, which is unity, because disunited they go nowhere“said the former Uruguayan president in the past, who never stops demanding love and morality to face the challenges of the future.
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