Death was confirmed by the current President of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi.
The former President of Uruguay (2010-2015) Pepe Mujica He died this Tuesday after a long fight against cancer, as confirmed by the current president of the country, Yamandú Orsi.
This morning Mujica’s pair of Lucía Topolansky, who was also vice -president of the country and a few Mujica, already made that her husband received palliative care when she entered her terminal phase of esophageal cancer.
The Latin -American country celebrated the department and municipal elections on Sunday and for the first time in 40 years, Mujica did not go to practice his voting rights. “We would make the effort to vote, but the transfer in the vehicle was a lot for him and the doctor advised that it would be,” Topolansky explained.
The left -wing leader announced on April 29, 2024 that he had a tumor in the esophagus, complicated by the immune disease he was already suffering. A short time later he revealed that the tumor was malignant and had to be treated with radiotherapy. In January of this year he announced that cancer was expanded to the liver: “I die,” he said then.
Under his last public performances, his presence in the Investitule Act of Yamandu Orsi, and in the tribute that he received at the end of March for the 54 years of the first massive event of his party, the Broad Front.
Source: EITB
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