The current situation is ‘terminal’, said his wife Lucía Topolanski, who explained that they do everything possible to ensure that he lives the final part of his life ‘in the best possible way’
Former Uruguayan president is in the “terminal” phase of one and receives palliative care to relieve pain, his wife, former vice-president Lucía Topolanski told a local communication vehicle. In January, Mujica revealed that cancer had spread throughout his body and that he would no longer have treatment at 89.
The current situation is “terminal,” said Topolansky, quoted by Local Sarandí radio station, and explained that they do everything possible to ensure that he lives the final part of his life “in the best way possible.” About the absence of the former president (2010-2015) in the regional elections of Sunday, in which the left maintained power in the capital of the country, Montevideo, his companion explained that the displacement was too much for him and his doctor recommended that he was not.
On Sunday, Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, successor to Mujica, asked the former guerrilla’s privacy to be respected. “We must all contribute to ensure that dignity is the key to all phases of our lives. We should not go crazy, we must leave it alone,” Orsi insisted.
With his austere and straightforward lifestyle, which earned him the nickname “poorer” in the world-a statement he has always denied-Mujica has become an emblem of the Latin American left and, with his anticonsuist rhetoric, conquered sympathizers worldwide.
*With information from AFP
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