The former president of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, José Mujica, announced this Monday (04/29/2024) in a press conference that he has a tumor in his neck. “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 is doubly complex in my case, because I suffer from a disease immunology more than 20 years ago,” he reported.
He added that this affected – among other things – his kidneys, which creates “obvious difficulties” for chemotherapy or surgical techniques. “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 is not the first time he has had health problems and who pointed out that this time we will have to see what happens. And he replicated his words later on his Facebook page.
Better known as “Pepe” Mujica, the former president, who was once a Marxist guerrilla, governed Uruguay for five years in which he made an extensive reform effort in Uruguay. His government was notable for legalizing same-sex marriage in the predominantly Catholic country and for making Uruguay the first nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana for recreational use.
Mujica said in his press conference that as long as he can he will continue fighting alongside his comrades, faithful to his way of thinking, and entertaining himself with his vegetables and his chickens. “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 to start over every time you fall. And that If there is anger, let them transform it into hope. Fight for love,” emphasized Mujica, a regular columnist for DW, where he runs the section. Southern Consciousness.
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 In the end, let them take away what I danced from,” he concluded.
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