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MONTEVIDEO — Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89. The straight-talking Mujica, known to many Uruguayans by his nickname “Pepe”, led the small farming country’s leftist government from 2010 to
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Jose Mujica, Uruguay’s former leader, rebel icon and cannabis reformer, dead at 89, World News
Buffy Coby
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MONTEVIDEO — Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried his reputation well beyond South America, has died aged 89. The straight-talking Mujica, known to many Uruguayans by his nickname “Pepe”, led the small farming country’s leftist government from 2010 to
