{"id":467970,"date":"2025-05-13T15:25:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/former-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-dies\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:25:41","slug":"former-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/former-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Uruguayan President Jos\u00e9 Mujica dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uruguay&#8217;s former president, <strong>Jos\u00e9 \u201cPepe\u201d Mujica<\/strong>, 89, passed away this Tuesday. It had been reported that he was going through a <strong>terminal phase of esophageal cancer<\/strong> and was staying at his farm in <strong>Rinc\u00f3n del Cerro,<\/strong> where he was receiving <strong>palliative care<\/strong> to cope with the pain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;With deep sorrow <strong>we announce the passing of our colleague Pepe Mujica<\/strong>,&#8221; wrote Orsi on his X profile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Pepe Mujica: Biograf\u00eda de un presidente simple con huellas extraordinarias\">http:\/\/Pepe Mujica: Biograf\u00eda de un presidente simple con huellas extraordinarias<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;President, activist, leader and conductor, we are going to miss you very much, dear old man. Thank you for everything you gave us and for your deep love for your people,&#8221; he completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Con profundo dolor comunicamos que falleci\u00f3 nuestro compa\u00f1ero Pepe Mujica. Presidente, militante, referente y conductor. Te vamos a extra\u00f1ar mucho Viejo querido. Gracias por todo lo que nos diste y por tu profundo amor por tu pueblo.<\/p>&mdash; Yamand\u00fa Orsi (@OrsiYamandu) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrsiYamandu\/status\/1922369763457593477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">La enfermedad<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former president&nbsp;<strong>suffered from esophageal cancer<\/strong>. In mid-May, his wife and former Vice President of Uruguay, Luc\u00eda Topolansky, as well as the current president of that country, Yamand\u00fa Orsi,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/549729-situacion-terminal-confirman-grave-salud-mujica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;his serious health condition.&nbsp;&#8220;He is on the plateau, he is at the end (&#8230;) this has an announced end,&#8221; stated the also former senator, who also indicated that her doctor&nbsp;diagnosed that he would be in a &#8220;<strong>terminal situation<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>I visited him and he&#8217;s very bad (<\/strong>&#8230;) it&#8217;s complicated over there, but he&#8217;s taking care of himself,&#8221; said Orsi, who had visited him recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Already in early January 2025, former president&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/536469-mujica-comunica-cancer-cuerpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">communicated<\/a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;the disease had spread through his body and there was no way to stop it. &#8220;The cancer in the esophagus&nbsp;<strong>is colonizing my liver. I can&#8217;t stop it with anything<\/strong>. Why? Because I am an old man and because I have two chronic diseases. I can&#8217;t have a biochemical treatment or surgery because&nbsp;<strong>my body can&#8217;t handle it<\/strong>,&#8221; he commented.&nbsp;And he added: &#8220;I am condemned, brother. I&#8217;ve come this far.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mujica <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/507702-jose-mujica-revelar-tumor-esofago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> that a malignant tumor was detected in his esophagus at the end of April 2024, which led him to receive treatment with <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/508039-pepe-mujica-radioterapia-tratar-cancer-esofago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radiotherapy<\/a>. A few months later, in August, he assured that this apparently worked, but it left him &#8220;destroyed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay&#8217;s former president, Jos\u00e9 \u201cPepe\u201d Mujica, 89, passed away this Tuesday. It had been reported that he was going through a terminal phase of esophageal cancer and was staying at his farm in Rinc\u00f3n del Cerro, where he was receiving palliative care to cope with the pain. &#8220;With deep sorrow we announce the passing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":467972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1XJU","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/PEPE-MUJICA-15-ANOS-IZQUIERDA-URUGUAY.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/PEPE-MUJICA-15-ANOS-IZQUIERDA-URUGUAY.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}