The president of Uruguay reveals that José ‘Pepe’ Mujica is serious

The president of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, revealed Sunday that José Pepe Mujica, her political father, is “delicate health and cannot move.” On Thursday, he said, he visited Mujica in his farm, located on the outskirts of Montevideo: “We are trying to take care of him and do not do things that can harm him.” The former president (2010-2015) suffers from cancer that has made liver metastasis.

The absence of Mujica in the Uruguayan departmental elections caught attention on Sunday. The leader of the Latin American left, president between 2020 and 2015, had never lost a vote since the return to democracy, in 1985.

At the end of April 2024, Mujica announced that he suffered a tumor in the esophagus. To treat the disease, he received 31 radiotherapy sessions in January of this year, the ex -president said that cancer had spread to the liver and assured that he was not willing to receive more treatments.

“You don’t have to go crazy, you have to leave it alone. He is still very useful for those half -hour conversations, one hour, two hours, where you bring you a package of ideas and sensibilities that come very well and we need them a lot,” said Orsi.

Shortly after, the former Vice President Lucía Topolansky spoke, with whom Pepe Mujica shares life since both regained freedom in 1985, after spending more than a decade in dictatorship. “We were going to make the effort to vote, but the transfer in the vehicle was a lot for him and the doctor recommended that it be,” he told Radio Sarandí.

Topolansky said that Mujica is “at the term” in a “plateau” and recalled that now the priority is that he does not feel pain or anxiety, and can sleep. “I am more than 40 years ago with him and I will be until the end, that was what I promised,” he said.

The Secretary of the Presidency, Alejandro Sánchez, also referred to Mujica’s health during the election day of May 11. “It has a terminal disease that carries a process, we are waiting for that outcome, this is part of life,” he said. And he commented on a desire of the Uruguayan politician: “Pepe has said he wants to turn 90 and that will be on May 20.”