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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
Natasha Hakimi Zapata -
The world’s “humblest” president, the “poorest president” in terms of personal wealth, the “most radical.” How did one man earn so many superlative epithets?
The 79-year-old Uruguayan President José Mujica—who leaves office at the end of next month—is at first glance an unlikely head of state. In keeping with the approach he developed while imprisoned for 14 years as a leftist Tupamaro urban guerrilla, Mujica repudiates...
The President of Uruguay is known as one of the most progressive and selfless in the world. Jose Mujica gives away 90% of his salary, has legalised gay marriage as well as marijuana and offered refuge to Guantanamo prisoners. Yet under Uruguay's constitution Mujica can't stand for a second term and with an election next month, the latest polls for his successor haven't been good. The main opposition candidate, Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, is from one of the wealthiest families in the country....
