The Hispanic -left American says goodbye to Pepe Mujica: “We will miss a lot, dear old!”
“Latin America is in mourning,” wrote the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales in its social networks when he learned about the death of the former Uruguayan José Pepper Mujicaat 89 years old. It is a sensation shared throughout the left of the American continent, which was an orphan of one of his most loved and known representatives all over the world. Political and social leaders fired Mujica with emotional messages in which they enhanced their honesty, humility and will of Latin American integration and the desire to be an example for the next generations.
In serious condition for months for esophagus and liver cancer, Mujica died at home in the afternoon of this Tuesday. The news was announced by the head of the state of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, also a member of the Broad Front. “President, militant, contact person and driver. We will miss you very much, old dear. Thanks for everything you have given us and for your deep love for your people”, Orsi said in a tweet that went around the world. One of the parts that make up the coalition in the power of Uruguay, the movement of popular participation, has published a video of Mujica in which it encourages to live life “with generosity”, to cultivate affections and consider economic growth “not a purpose, but a means”.
Morales, who coincided with Mujica when both were presidents of Bolivia and Uruguay, respectively, between 2010 and 2015, highlighted the importance it gave to the great Latin American homeland. “I always remember his advice full of experience and wisdom,” said Morales, “his teachings and his great example remain.” Mujica’s mandate also coincided with that of Argentina Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who has chosen to remember him as “a great man who dedicated his life to militancy and his homeland”.
Boric: “You left us the incombustible hope”
The Chilean head of state, Gabriel Boric, He put Mujica as an example to never give up: “Pepe dear, I imagine that you are worried about the bitter salad that is in the world today. But if you left us, it was the incombustible hope that it is possible to do things better -” step by step so as not to interrupt “as you said – and the non -negligent belief that I fucking our hearts and there is injustice in the world that is worth fighting.” Boric also sent a giant embrace to his widow, Lucía Topolansky, who called “another giant of America”, “to your Uruguayan people who wanted so much and the whole world”.
“See you, friend”, He was fired by the Colombian president Gustavo Petro. “We hope that Latin America, one day, have the anthem, hope that South America is called, one day: Amazon. Today I firmly believe that the Latin American integration project is to be built, like the European Union, a granolombia union, which in the heart of Latin America and the Caribbean, makes the decisive step to integration.” The vice -president of Colombia, in France Márquez, added that Mujica “chose to live while thinking” and expressed the desire that “her plantation of consciousness, solidarity and humanity is the collection of generations to come”.
Like Petro and Boric, the president of Brazil also learned of death in Beijing, where he must participate in the forum between China and the community of Latin American states and the Caribbean (Celac). “I woke up with the sad news that today Pepe Mujica has left us, leaving us full of sadness, but also with many lessons. His life has been an example that political struggle and kindness can go hand in hand. And that courage and strength can be accompanied by the humility and detachment of his words. And fraternity for Latin America.
The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, sent her condolences to the family, friends and people of Uruguay and enhanced Mujica as “an example for Latin America and the whole world for the wisdom, thought and simplicity that characterized it”.
Sánchez: “A better world. As it believed, played and lived”
The condolences for the death of those who were the best known president of Uruguay transferred continental borders. From Spain, the president of the government Pedro Sánchez said that “politics makes sense when he lives like this, from the heart. Sánchez said this Mujica “believed, played and lived” to build “a better world”.
