“The poorest president in the world” succumbs to cancer…and this is his will

Former Uruguayan President Jose Mujica (90 years old), who suffers from esophageal cancer, announced in a press interview that the disease had spread to his liver, and said that he was “dying.”

In an interview with the Uruguayan news agency “Busqueda,” the man known as “the poorest president in the world” said that the most virulent diseases had spread through his body and reached the liver, and he could no longer tolerate it.

Jose Mujica, president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, said: “My life cycle has ended, and I am dying now, and the warrior has the right to rest,” according to what was reported by Búsqueda magazine, published every Thursday in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, known as the Switzerland of Latin America.

It is known that Mujica refused to reside in the presidential palace after his election, and he donated 90% of his salary of $4,000 to charitable organizations while he was president.

He also continued to live in a more than ordinary house, on a small farm with his wife and his dog, and he went to the presidential palace in a 1987 Volkswagen car that he drove himself, and which is barely worth $1,200 now.

As for his illness, he underwent 32 sessions of radiotherapy and then chemotherapy, after which the tumor initially disappeared, but it returned, more inflammatory in the liver, two months ago.

Mujica said: “I will not be able to stop him, because I am old and will no longer bear the treatment or surgery,” and explained that he asked the doctors not to make him suffer “for nothing, because when my turn comes, I will die,” as he put it in the interview.

The poorest president in the world affirmed, “What I ask is to be left alone, and I want to die on my farm, and for my final resting place to be under its soil next to my dog, Manuela.”