Lessons from jose mujicas, the poorest president in the world. He is a inspirational personality with good thoughts for mankind. When he was elected as the 40th president of uruguay, jose mujica announced that hell donate 90 percent of his monthly. E mo mannise was just 16 when he met uruguays current president, jose mujica. Jose pepe mujica, uruguays former president, is presenting his new book, a black sheep to power, in italy. Uruguays jose mujica was liberals dream, but too good to be true. Uruguayan president jose mujica waves after participating in a conference on the last day of the international book fair in guadalajara. On a spring day in 1969, mannise was at home alone with his sister, beatriz, when the future president burst out. Pepe mujica thought is universal and at one read this book will learn a lot from his saying. He may be the poorest president in the world by income, but uruguay president jose mujica may also be the most popular world leader by virtue of his humility.
Jose pepe mujica, now former president of uruguay, is a remarkable man. Uruguay bids farewell to jose mujica, its pauper president bbc news. Books are important to the former guerrilla fighter who spent a total of years in jail, two of them lying at the bottom of an old horse trough. Jose alberto pepe mujica cordano is a uruguayan politician who served as the 40th president of uruguay from 2010 to 2015. And this is what he wants us to know about happiness. This book is an introduction to the politics and philosophy of an unrepentant permanent militant whose evolution took him from defeated guerrilla warrior to. After years in solitary, an austere life as uruguays president the. Jose mujica, a former guerrilla who took office in 2010, shuns opulence, donates most of his salary and lives modestly, as he says a leader of a. Rather than set himself apart from the people, mujica lives like one of them, residing in the same farmhouse as before he was elected to office. Jose pepe mujica tells us what happiness really is lifegate.
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