Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle ...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, 74, presidential hopeful for the governing Broad Front leftist coalition, stands in a tractor on his flower farm after voting in Uruguay's general elections, on the outskirts ...

FILE – Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica poses for a photo with his dog, Manuela, at his home on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, May 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File) ...

World José Mujica, Uruguay’s humble president who changed his country and charmed the world, dies at 89 May 13, 2025 at 2:06 pm By MATILDE CAMPODONICO ...