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

José Mujica, the former Uruguayan president known for his humble lifestyle and progressive reforms, has died at the age of 89 ...

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

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.

José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, has passed away at the age of 89, leaving behind a legacy of social and economic transformation. During his administration, Argentina’s neighbour ...

“Latin America is in mourning,” wrote former Bolivian president Evo Morales on social media upon learning of the death of former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica at the age of 89. It is a ...

In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President Jose Mujica as a generous and charismatic leader whose legacy of humility rem ...

My generation made a naive error. We believed that social change was only a matter of challenging modes of production and distribution in society. We did not understand the immense role of culture.

José “Pepe” Mujica, the former president of Uruguay, at his modest home on the outskirts of Montevideo last year.Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York Times Supported by By Jack Nicas Jack ...

He drove himself to his 2010 presidential inauguration ceremony in a Volkswagen Beetle. A few years earlier, he and his wife, ...

José “Pepe” Mujica, a former guerrilla fighter turned president of Uruguay, passed away on May 13 at the age of 89. “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of our comrade ...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a guerrilla fighter who became Uruguay's president, has died. He became known as the "World's Poorest ...