Puebla – When a new mayor was elected in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo at the weekend, José “Pepe” Mujica was already too weak to go to the urn. That was a warning sign: Usually he did not miss the opportunity to give up his voice in every choice – after all, as a young man, he had fought against the dictatorship and for democracy. He was in the final stage of his cancer, his wife Lucia Topolansky told the media. Mujica died on Tuesday, a few days before his 90th birthday. With him, Uruguay loses not only one of his most dazzling politicians, but an icon. Mujica, the former Guerillero, became the president, was so unconventional that media from all over the world made a pilgrimage to the small country on the Rio de la Plata to portray him.
