Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, a leftist icon known for his progressive social reforms, died on Tuesday at the age ...

Mujica, a former Marxist guerrilla known by the nickname ‘Pepe’, became a beloved figure for his simple lifestyle.

The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.

In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President ...

The funeral procession for the late former President Jose Mujica makes its way from the presidential palace to the National ...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive ...

He oversaw an economic boom, a reduction in poverty and the legalization of abortion, same-sex marriage and marijuana.

Jose “Pepe” Mujica, the former left-wing guerrilla who spent more than a decade in prison before becoming president of ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Mourners wept, raised their arms and marched behind the flag-draped casket of former President ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle ...

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica is in the terminal phase of esophageal cancer and is receiving palliative care to ease his pain, his wife and former Vice President Lucía Topolansky confirmed.

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.