The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" Mujica.

The funeral procession for the late former President Jose Mujica makes its way from the presidential palace to the National Assembly in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) The casket of Uruguay’s former President Jose Mujica is transported from the presidential palace to the National Assembly during his funeral procession in Montevideo,

The former Uruguayan president, who died on Tuesday, showed the value in world leaders living like their constituents.

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay whose unpretentious style and progressive reforms earne

Crowds have poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital to bid a poignant farewell to former President José Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became an icon of the Latin American left,

Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, a leftist icon known for his progressive social reforms, died on Tuesday at the age of 89.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will attend the funeral of former Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica, who died on Tuesday (May 13) at the age of 89.

Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former president Jose Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became a hero of the Latin American left.

Jose “Pepe” Mujica, the former left-wing guerrilla who spent more than a decade in prison before becoming president of Uruguay and making it the first country in the world to legalize cannabis, has died.

The history of Latin America's left is filled with champions of the poor, ex-guerrillas, democrats, and dictators — but "Pepe" Mujica stood above them all with a rare trait in politics. A kind of South American version of Nelson Mandela, he was ...