Jose Mujica
Jose Mujica
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordanois a Uruguayan politician who was the 40th President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015. A former urban guerrilla fighter with the Tupamaros, he was imprisoned for 13 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential...
NationalityUruguayan
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth20 May 1935
CountryUruguay
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.
My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history.
My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
I'll shout it if they want: Down with isms! Up with a Left that is capable of thinking outside the box! In other words, I am more than completely cured of simplifications, of dividing the world into good and evil, of thinking in black and white. I have repented!
A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.
We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.
The political climate during a campaign is not the best climate for reasonable debate.
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it.
The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.