The widow of José Mujica remembers him during a conversation with EL PAÍS in the country house where they shared a life ...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, president of Uruguay, is known for his frugal ways. Last year, he earned the nickname of the "world's poorest president" when he revealed that he donates 90 percent of his ...

Jose Mujica, the former president of Uruguay who enacted progressive reforms and was known to many around the country by his nickname "Pepe," has died at age 89.

José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay, died at 89 after battling cancer. He became the first head of state in the world to legalize all forms of cannabis in 2013.

Latin America's leftist leaders remember Uruguay's 'Pepe' Mujica as generous, charismatic leader. In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to ...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, 74, presidential hopeful for the governing Broad Front leftist coalition, stands in a tractor on his flower farm after voting in Uruguay's general elections, on the outskirts ...

Pepe Mujica led Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, with the leftist coalition Frente Amplio. His was one of the most progressive governments in the country’s history.

Former President Jose Mujica of Uruguay announced Monday that he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. "This is obviously very complicated and doubly so in my case," Mujica said of the diagnosis.

“A person like Pepe Mujica doesn’t die,” Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said as he paid his respects to his longtime friend, widely known as Pepe, at the Legislative Palace ...

Latin America’s leftist leaders remember Uruguay’s ‘Pepe’ Mujica as generous, charismatic leader by: NAYARA BATSCHKE, Associated Press. Posted: May 15, 2025 / 11:07 PM EDT.