(From Montevideo, Uruguay) – The former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica started two weeks ago radiotherapy sessions To treat the esophageal cancer that affects it. The tumor he has is malignant and has not spread to other organs, but the treatment has affected the spirit of the former president, who has not stopped his militant activities.
The historic leader of Wide Front He was days ago at an event honoring Danilo Astori, who was vice president during his administration, and gave details about the effect of his treatment. “I’m screwed, in misery. The treatment they are giving me is like a mess every day, so I can’t stand my legs.“he said in a press conference.
Mujica’s treatment has stipulated 30 radiotherapy sessions in total and The former president has already fulfilled about half of it, although he admits to being exhausted.
“I’m tired. I’m like an old baker’s donkey, who made deliveries, who stopped at all the stops without being ordered“, compared the former president.
The options to treat the malignant tumor are surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The former president’s personal doctor, Raquel Pannone, praised the last option so as not to distance Mujica from his home or militancy. Furthermore, an immunological disease that has afflicted him for years prevents the possibility of having surgery.
Mujica’s wife, Lucia Topolansky, He had also resorted to a comparison to talk about his mood. “The problem with strong radiotherapy is that it lowers your defenses and if you catch the flu… It would be a shame. So, we have to take care of that,” she said days ago, interviewed on the news. Telenight from Channel 4.
Topolansky stressed that her husband tries to put “will” into his treatment and that, despite everything, “he is doing well.” The former president continued with militancy activities. “He tries to continue doing his routine even though he is tired, because it is as if the radiotherapy is taking hold of you. To put it simply, because doctors will tell you another way.”, he commented.
This week, Mujica participated in a new edition of the March of Silence, which remembers those who disappeared during the country’s last dictatorship (1973-1985). That day, the leader had also referred to his health. “It is natural with my age to have health problems. One is aware that we are at the farewell. Not because we like it, but because it is infallible. It is a common destiny that awaits us and we have lived enough. We have to give thanks to life for having reached the age I am, with the life I have had,” he expressed to the doctors.
Mujica also reflected on the cause for which he was marching and appreciated that it is an issue that is “being carried somatically by the feelings of the new generations.”
He was also self-critical about the findings of the bodies during his government and admitted that more could have been done. “There is always the feeling that something was missing. It’s a feeling of debt. We are left with contradictions, because I do not have a feeling of resentment. I’m too old to have a grudge. I have the feeling that society wants to know the real truth. True justice is the truth. That’s the worst, because that’s what gets buried. It is the right that families have to know,” said Mujica.
The former president was also self-critical with a comment he expressed a few years ago, when he stated that the issue will end when everyone who has information dies. “I made a mistake. Then I walked around Spain and found people from new generations turning over bones about things that had happened 60, 90 years ago, before the war. There are things that human beings no longer forget. That is why there are wounds that should be healed in a society,” he considered.
