Uruguay says goodbye to José Pepe Mujica In an exciting funeral procession through the streets of Montevideo. The former president, who died on Tuesday (13) at the age of 89, receives the latest honors of the population in a path that marks crucial points of his political trajectory.
The procession began at the headquarters of the Uruguayan Presidency, where the current president Luis Lacalle Pou He placed the national flag on the casket of Mujica, in a solemn and moving gesture.
The caravan follows a carefully planned script, going through emblematic places that reflect the life and career of the political leader.
Striking points of the route
Among the prominent places in the route, is the headquarters of the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros guerrilla organization of which Mujica was part of his youth.
The procession also passes the headquarters of the Popular Participation Movement political party founded by Mujica after the country’s redemocratization, and by the headquarters of Front, a left coalition that led him to power.
Along the way, emotional citizens crowd to pay their last honors.
Flags of Movement LGBT They are seen between the crowd, remembering the role of mujica in legalizing same -sex marriage in Uruguay.
The final destination of the procession is the headquarters of the Uruguayan Legislature, where a Open to the public .
The presence of heads of state and international political leaders are expected to say goodbye to this icon of Latin American policy and the world left.
Remember the life of the former president of Uruguay
In April, he revealed at a press conference that he was diagnosed with a tumor in his esophagus when he went to check up. He already dealt with an autoimmune disease that affected his kidneys.
Founder of Uruguay’s main guerrilla group, was arrested for more than a decade, was tortured by the dictatorship and ended up to power decades later.
Mujica became one of the most beloved presidents internationally and placed Uruguay, the second smallest country in South America, in world magnifying glass.
Her style of little luxuries, with a simple way to dress-for critics, sloppy-that even maintained during the presidency, the defense of a less consumerist existence and the progressive initiatives she supported during her term, such as the legalization of abortion, marijuana and same-sex marriage, they earned her fame and admiration around the world, and positioned him as one of the main references of the Latin American left.
Mujica was born in 1935 in Montevideo, where he lived throughout his life. It began in politics in the National Party, one of the most traditional of Uruguay, where he was secretary general of youth.
In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the National Liberation Movement – Tupamaros, the most famous guerrilla in the country. The group worked with theft of places to self-financing, kidnappings-including the then Brazilian consul in Montevideo, Aloysio Dias Gomide-and antisters against authorities and collaborators of the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973-1985).
With the redemocratization, he founded the Popular Participation Movement (MPP), an acronym that began to join the Broad Front, the country’s only left coalition. In 1994, Mujica was elected deputy by Montevideo, and in 1999, senator. In 2004, reelected, he became the most voted senator in the country’s history.
In the following elections, at age 75, Mujica beat former President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera, with 52.59% of the votes in the second round. To the difference from its predecessor, which vetoed the law of decriminalization of abortion that had been approved by both Legislature Chambers in 2008, Mujica defended, during the campaign, the secularism of the state and said it would not oppose the law if voluntary interruption of pregnancy was voted again.
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