“Latin America is mourning,” wrote the former president of Bolivia Evo Morales on his social networks when he learned of the death of the Uruguay Pepe Mujica, at 89. It is a shared feeling throughout the left of the American continent, which was orphaned of one of its most beloved and known referents worldwide. Political and social leaders fired Mujica with emotional messages in which they extolled 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 a esophagus and liver cancer, Mujica died at home on the afternoon of this Tuesday. The news was announced by the head of state of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, also a member of the Broad Front. “President, militant, referent and driver. We are going to miss you a lot, dear. One of the parties that make up the ruling coalition of Uruguay, the popular participation movement, published a video of Mujica in which it encourages to live life “with generosity”, to cultivate affections and to 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 Latin American Great 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 chose 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 Buric, put Mujica as an example to never give There is injustice in the world, it is worth continuing to fight. ” Boric also sent a giant hug to his widow, Lucía Topolansky, whom he defined as “another giant of America”, “to your Uruguayan people who wanted so much and the whole world.”
“Goodbye, friend,” said Colombian President Gustavo Petro. “Hopefully Latin America, someday, has anthem, hopefully South America is called, someday: Amazon. Today I firmly believe that the Latin American integration project is to build, as the European Union, a Grancolombian union, which in the heart of Latin America and the Caribbean, takes the decisive step to integration.” The vice president of Colombia, France Márquez, added that Mujica “chose to live as he thought” and expressed the desire that “her planting of consciousness, solidarity and humanity is the harvest of generations to come.”
The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, sent her condolences to family, friends and the people of Uruguay and exalted Mujica as “an example for Latin America and the entire world for the wisdom, thought and simplicity that characterized him.”
Sánchez: “A better world. In that he believed, militated and lived”
The condolences for the death of who was the best known president of Uruguay transferred the continental borders. From Spain, the president of the Government Pedro Sánchez said that “politics makes sense when it lives like this, from the heart. Sánchez said that Mujica” believed, militated and lived “for building” a better world. ”
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