From flower seller to president of the country!
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The goal is the president. A tin-roofed dilapidated house surrounded by farmland can be seen at the far end of the city. There are no armed bodyguards there, real domestic dogs ahead, welcome a flock of chickens. Not a dazzling limousine or saloon, but a 25-year-old Volkswagen Beetle his constant companion.He donated 90 percent of his salary to various relief works. It is difficult to estimate the age by looking at the random gray hair on the head, tiny eyes, raw thick mustache and tens of looks. He is none other than the president of the ‘Jose Mujica’, the Latin American country of Uruguay.
2005. The left-wing coalition Broad Front lost power to Uruguay's influential Colorado National Party alliance. Tabare Vasquez was inaugurated as President. The Front won re-election in 2009. Jose Mujica was elected the new president. However, he did not agree to change his way of life even after holding the highest position in the country. That's why Divya is good with her old house-car-farm, leaving behind luxurious style, the countrymen affectionately call her 'El Pepe'.
Behind the immense popularity of music is its eloquence, idealistic image and simple lifestyle. According to his followers, what El Pepe said in his mouth, he did. Conversely, critics say, music is the ultimate actor. In fact, he is a crazy, insane old man who has now put away both guns and revolution. However, the president did not take into account the words of the critics.As an outspoken person, he has always provoked controversy. After coming to power, he has legalized the cultivation and marketing of cannabis in the country, as well as legalized abortion and same-sex marriage. Speaking at a UN meeting, the musician told members, "Stop going to meetings that cost a lot of money. There is no work there. '
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As a young man, Mujica terrorized Uruguay as a left-wing guerrilla leader. He lost his father when he was only eight years old and had to fight with extreme poverty in his childhood and adolescence. As a delivery boy at a local bakery, Mujica has to start earning at that age as a hotel boy. He also raised Aram lilies from the creek running behind the house and sold them to support the family.As a young man, he worked as an associate of popular leftist leader Enrique Arroyo. But his political thinking changed when he came in contact with Che Guevara in independent Cuba. In the late 1950s, Uruguay was in the throes of a crisis due to high inflation and ailing economy. Inspired by Che's ideology, Mujica and her companions felt compelled to do something new.
The guerrilla force ‘Tupamaro’ was born in their hands, naming the legendary revolutionary character of Peru, Tupac Amaru II, to fight against exploitation. The popularity of the Tupamaros, who believe in the principle of killing the oppressor and keeping the poor, continues to grow in Uruguay's lower and middle class.
Illegal savings of the rich of the society by robbing the banks, spending on the development of the poor, killing the rich businessman and confiscating his property, seizing the expensive casinos and sending money to the employees of the organization, etc., they got involved. But gradually the revolution lost momentum due to party chaos. The party solidarity of the revolutionaries began to break down. The Tupamaro began to lose popularity due to one kidnapping after another and cold-blooded murders.El Pepe was arrested in March 1970 after a shootout with police at a bar. A total of 8 bullets entered his stomach.
Following his arrest, he was held at the Punta Cartes Prison in Montevideo. After fleeing twice, Mujica was recaptured in 1982. In a coup d'tat in 1973, President Juan Maria Bordaberi took office in the masonry of Uruguay. Dictatorship began with the end of democracy. Nine Tupamaro rebels, including Mujica, were sent to military prisons. The condition is that if he tries to revolt again, he will be executed.
The dictatorship came to an end in 1974 after a mass coup. Mujica was released in 1985 after 11 years in solitary confinement. The Colorado Party ruled Uruguay in the 80's and 90's. Despite coming close to winning the 1994 election, the defeat means the Broad Front. However, two former Tupamaro leaders are in the 99-member parliament. Jose Mujica is one of them. At that time, he used to ride his scooter to the parliament every day.His speech, which was full of incessant insults to the common man in the vernacular, gained popularity overnight.
At the height of this popularity in the 2009 election, Mujica was elected president. However, he did not change himself. El Pepe took the opportunity to marry in 2005 after a 20-year live-in relationship with fellow revolutionary Lucia Topolanski. They are getting a happy family with dogs, cats, chickens and sheep in a three-room house in the suburbs surrounded by flower gardens. The neighbors are mostly old people of the same age.
Reaching 69, is the rebellious entity of the past a bit stagnant? After listening to the question, Mujica Saf said that she had to adapt to the era. However, the hunger for change has remained the same even today. Intense realism has taken the place of unrestrained emotions. And with that realization at the end of his life, President Jose Mujica is equally passionate about Uruguay's well-being.
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