Uruguay's ex-president Mujica receiving palliative care: wife

By CNN Español José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, suffered from several health problems throughout his life. Mujica did not vote in Uruguay's last departmental and municipal elections held last Sunday, May 11, 2025. When asked that day about the former president's health, President Yamandú Orsi stated: "He is in trouble. He is taking care of himself," adding that he visited him a few days ago and they spoke "f…

By CNN Español José “Pepe” Mujica, former president of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, suffered from several health problems throughout his life. Mujica did not vote in Uruguay's last departmental and municipal elections held last Sunday, May 11, 2025. When asked that day about the former president's health, President Yamandú Orsi stated: "He is in trouble. He is taking care of himself," adding that he visited him a few days ago and they spoke "f…

By Darío Klein, CNN en Español Activist, guerrilla, revolutionary, political prisoner, hostage, legislator, minister, president, and world leader, José "Pepe" Mujica ended a life worthy of a film. The charismatic leader of Uruguay's leftist Broad Front was dubbed by the international press, between 2011 and 2012, as "the poorest president in the world." Although strictly speaking, he wasn't, simply by choice, he didn't live like most presidents;…

“It’s on the plateau, it’s on term,” Lucia Topolansky told a local radio station, saying that they’re trying to get him to sleep. Mujica says that cancer has spread to the liver: “I’m dying.” Former Uruguayan president José Mujica, who suffers from cancer, is receiving palliative care. Mujica’s former vice president, former senator and wife, Lucía Topolansky, confirmed in statements to Sarandí radio that the politician is in terminal phase and i…

Montevideo, Uruguay.- Former Uruguayan President José Mujica goes through the "terminal" phase of an esophageal cancer and receives palliative care to avoid pain, his wife, former Vice President Lucía Topolansky, told a local media. On the weekend, current President Yamandú Orsi said that Mujica is delicate in health and cannot move, according to the newspaper El País. In January, Mujica revealed that the cancer had spread throughout his body an…

He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, but has now stopped treatment.