Montevideo Uruguay - On Wednesday, crowds poured into the streets of the Uruguay capital, pleading for farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-single leader who became an idol of the Latin American left, taking Latin America with his humility, simple lifestyle and consciousness and consciousness and seriousness.
Thousands of people mourned the death of their former leaders, affectionately known as "Pepe", joined the parade, which was then a coffin covered by Mujika's flag carrying a butt bracket, crossing the centre of Montevedico in three hours, through the centre of Montevedico.
Mujica died Tuesday at his home at 89-year-old Montevideo, a three-bedroom farmhouse that he had lived and during his presidency (2010-2015), rejecting Uruguay’s rich presidential man.
"Pepe, dear, the people are with you!" Rose as Cortege passed. Uruguayans lined up along the route and applauded from the balcony.
Uruguay's president Yamandú Orsi, a long-time interlocutor of Mujica and Protégé at his wide front-line gathering on the left, announced that it was praised by the Presidential Decree, which praised Mujica's "humanistic philosophy" to shut down all actions of the government, but promptly announced all actions in the half-time, while announcing all actions.
Former mayor and history teacher Orsi, like Mujica, shunned the presidential palace in support of his family residence and tried to continue Mujica's humble legacy. Mujica voted for Orsi last fall and voted for ORSI.
Accompanied by current and former officials and Mujica's life partners and politicians, Orsi held a private ceremony at the President's headquarters, where the funeral was held, and the silk flag was hung on Mujica's coffin.
He will turn 90 next week; he was born on May 20, 1935.
During his political career, Mujica won admiration at home for legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage and a cult status abroad, enacted the region’s first thorough abortion rights law and established Uruguay as a leader in alternative energy sources.
Before overseeing the transformation of his little South American country into one of the world's most liberal democracies, Mujika robbed banks, planted bombs, and was kidnapped by abducted businessmen as the leader of the violent left-wing guerrillas in the 1960s, known as Tupamaros.
Mujica was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in April 2024.