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José Alberto Mujica Cordano was born on 20 May 1935 in the neighbourhood of Paso de la Arena in the capital city of Montevideo to Demetrio Mujica and Lucy Cordano. [6] Demetrio was a descendant of a Spanish Basque family who arrived to Uruguay in 1842.
El Pepe: A Supreme Life (Spanish: El Pepe, Una Vida Suprema) is a 2018 documentary film directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica and starring Uruguay's former president (and former guerrilla fighter) José Mujica. It is about Mujica's life and legacy. [2] [3]
Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former president and one of Latin America's best-known leaders, announced a cancer diagnosis on Monday that doctors say will be challenging to treat. Mujica, who turns 89 in ...
Mujica, 88, said he was diagnosed during a routine medical checkup last Friday. “This is obviously very complicated and doubly so in my case,” the ex-president who governed Uruguay from 2010 ...
The presidency of José Mujica began on 1 March 2010 when he was inaugurated as the 40th constitutional president of Uruguay. Mujica, a member of Broad Front's Movement of Popular Participation, took office following his victory over the National Party's nominee Luis Alberto Lacalle in the second round of the 2009 Uruguayan general election, thus continuing another five years of leftist ...
However, she took over as Senator of the Republic, as she was the first substitute for her husband José Mujica who left the seat to take office as Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries in 2005. She was a candidate for Intendant of Montevideo in the 2015 municipal elections, being defeated by Daniel Martínez Villamil. [3]
José Bonilla was also designated as Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On February 2, 2009, José Bonilla was elected to take charge of the General Command of the Uruguayan Air Force, as Commander-in-Chief. He served as the 14th Commander-in-Chief of the Uruguayan Air Force between February 1, 2009, and October 20, 2010, when he was then . [7]
Vázquez took office on 1 March 2015, succeeding José Mujica. [32] After assuming the position, he also became the President pro tempore of UNASUR until 23 April 2016, [33] as he succeeded at the same time José Mujica who was holding the presidency of this international organization. [34]