Pepe Mujica: The President Who Didn’t Fit the Chair

Pepe Mujica has died. And with him, a kind of politics that seemed to belong to another century—or to a film script no one dares to shoot anymore. The former guerrilla fighter who became Uruguay’s president drove a Beetle, planted flowers with his wife, and spoke like your grandpa—if your grandpa could quote Marx, Shakespeare, and the price of rice all in the same breath.

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