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

Pepe Mujica died last week. Today, he would have turned 90. People across Uruguay are still celebrating his life. This is episode 36 of Stories of Resistance.

For the Uruguayan leader, a longtime icon of the Latin American left, economic fairness was inseparable from human decency.

The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...

As president, he commuted from his home: a cluttered, three-room shack the size of a studio apartment, crammed with a wood ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to ...

Mujica spent over a decade in prison for resisting the state he would one day lead. His death this week has brought much soul ...

Uruguay's first post-dictatorship president reflects on his relationship with his political rival and how they went from ...

On 13 May 2025, the world lost one of its most remarkable statesmen. José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay, died at ...

Thousands joined Mujica's funeral march in Montevideo, Uruguay, May 14 [Photo by Efeland / CC BY 4.0] Thousands turned out for José “Pepe” Mujica’s funeral on May 14, filling Montevideo’s ...

José Mujica, the charismatic former guerrilla fighter who later went on to lead Uruguay and became known as "the world's poorest president" for... Uruguay's ex-President José Mujica, nicknamed ...