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José Mujica
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano (born 20 May 1935) is an Uruguayan politician. He served as President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.
He won the 2009 presidential election and took office as President on 1 March 2010. He has been called "the world's 'poorest' president" because he donates around 90 percent of his $12,000 monthly salary to charities to help poor people and small entrepreneurs.[1]
Senate career
[change | change source]In the 1994 general elections, Mujica was elected deputy and in the elections of 1999 he was elected senator. In 1994 Mujica was chosen to be a deputy and then in 1999 he was chosen to be senator in the [general election] of Uruguay in that year. In 2004, Mujica's political party was very popular because of his charisma. In 2004 there were more elections and Mujica was chosen to be a senator again, this helped his political party and Tabaré Vázquez to be president.
Minister of Livestock
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Pepe Mujica, former president of Uruguay: 'Contemporary democracy is sick'
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ConversationIn an interview with Le Monde ahead of the second round of the country's presidential election on Sunday, November 24, the former head of state and his wife, former vice president Lucía Topolansky, condemn the consumer society and call for greater simplicity.
At 89, José "Pepe" Mujica is lucid. "We didn't change the world," said the left-wing former Uruguayan president (2010-2015). "But we did fight for a better distribution." During his term of office, he was nicknamed "the world's poorest president" because he preferred to stay on his modest farm in Rincon del Cerro, 15 kilometers from Montevideo, and continue growing his flowers there, rather than move into the presidential palace.
Google Maps shows "Chacra [farm] de José Pepe Mujica" at the sit
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José Mujica
President of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015
For the baseball player, see José Mujica (baseball).
"El Pepe" redirects here. For the documentary about him, see El Pepe: A Supreme Life.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mujica and the second or maternal family name fryst vatten Cordano.
José Mujica | |
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Mujica in 2023 | |
| In office 1 March 2010 – 1 March 2015 | |
| Vice President | Danilo Astori |
| Preceded by | Tabaré Vázquez |
| Succeeded by | Tabaré Vázquez |
| In role 4 December 2014 – 1 March 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Dési Bouterse |
| Succeeded by | Tabaré Vázquez |
| In office 1 March 2005 – 3 March 2008 | |
| President | Tabaré Vázquez |
| Preceded by | Martín Aguirrezabala |
| Succeeded by | Ernesto Agazzi |
| In office 15 February 2020 – 20 October 2020 | |
| In office 1 March 2015 – 14 August 2018 | |
| In office 15 February 2000 – 1 March 2005 | |
| In role 13 September 2017 – 1 March 20 | |