Uruguay: Jose Muchika receives palliative care due to end -stage cancer

Former Uruguayan President Jose “Pepe” Muchika has been diagnosed with esophagus cancer at an “advanced stage” and is currently taking palliative care to relieve pain, as his wife said in an interview. In January, the 89 -year -old former president, a flagship personality of the Left in Latin America, revealed that the cancer diagnosed in May 2024 had spread and that his aging body could no longer tolerate treatment. Jose Muchika’s cancer is now in the “final stage”, his wife and former Vice President Lucia Topolanski said in an interview with Radio Sarandi broadcast on Monday. She stressed that she does what is necessary to ensure that her husband live the rest of his life “as best as possible”. The absence of the former president of Uruguay (2010-2015) in Sunday’s regional elections, in which the Left maintained power in the capital Montevideo, was remarkable. On his side, […]
Source: News Beast

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