"Jose Mujica, a former leader of the Marxist Tupamaros guerrilla group, left behind a progressive model of governance,…"

"Meet the president - who lives on a ramshackle farm and gives away most of his pay. Laundry is strung outside the hou…"

"To see him today, now aged 78, sitting on his wooden chair, surrounded by books and silence, a pair of sandals on his…"

"Pepe Mujica, former president of Uruguay who enjoys almost universal admiration in Latin America, said: “Anyone who l…"

"President José Mujica of Uruguay, a 78-year-old former Marxist guerrilla who spent 14 years in prison, mostly in soli…"

"It seems that we have been born, only to consume. And when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration…"

"The philosophy of my heart is libertarian. I don’t like the idea of the exploitation of man by man. I believe that on…"

"That (Guantanamo Bay detention camp) isn’t a prison. It’s a kidnapping den, because a prison entails subjection to so…"

"Locked up, I almost went mad... Now I'm a prisoner of my own freedom to think and decide as I wish. I cultivate that …"

"Bourgeois democracy: I defend it and I criticise it. What do I criticise? That it promises a degree of equality that …"