The former president of Uruguay José Mujica (2010-2015) announced this Monday in a press conference that he has a tumor in his esophagus. As he explained, it was detected in a medical check-up last Friday.
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Mujica indicated that his case is “doubly complex” due to his immunological disease, a situation that “creates obvious difficulties” in undergoing chemotherapy.
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“I need to inform you that last Friday I went to the Casmu (hospital center) to have a check-up in which it was discovered that I have a tumor in the esophagus, which is obviously very serious.” and that is doubly complex in my case, because I have suffered from an immunological disease for more than 20 years,” he reported.
I want to convey to you that in my life more than once the grim reaper was hanging around the cot, but it continued to shepherd me all these years.
“The doctors are evaluating all of this, doing cellular analysis, how this story continues. I want to convey to you that in my life more than once in my life the grim reaper was hanging around the cot, but it continued to herd me all these years,” the former president emphasized. who pointed out that this time we will have to see what happens.
Jose Mujica.
Photo:EL TIEMPO Archive
“As long as the shit lasts, I’ll be there. I want to thank you and convey to the young people of this country that life is beautiful and is spent. The crux of succeeding in life is starting over every time you fall. And if there is anger, let it be transformed into hope. Fight for love,” Mujica emphasized.
Finally, He added that the only freedom that exists is in the head and is called “will.”
“If we do not use it, we are not free. And this must be understood. This challenge is faced by the new generations. And life is so beautiful that it makes no sense to sacrifice it for stupidity. For the rest, I am grateful and, at the end of the day, let them take away what I danced from, “she concluded.
Mujica joined the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros guerrilla in the mid-1960s. He was arrested in 1972, and remained behind bars throughout the civil-military dictatorship that began in Uruguay in 1973 and lasted until 1985. A quarter A century later he became president of his country.
