Jose Mukica, the man who changed the rifle from the word and the same humility on his presidential journey
“I got here. This praises me, and when I must die, I die. This is simple.” Thus Jose Mukica, former president of Uruguay; The man with the reason the person who changed the word To try to transform reality. It was a guerrilla and political warfare and farmer, but above all an example of cohesion.
I wanted to change the world, but I did not change the curse.
“There are no second works in the lives of Americans,” said writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. But the author of a book Great Gatsby He referred to the residents of Nurr America. In the south (“South is also present”) There seem to be seconds and a friend of Mukika (As it was known) you can bear witness to it.
Uruguayan’s life was at least actions: the life of the young man whose political commitment prompted him to join the guerrilla movement and the same mature man who came to his country’s president to try to change reality and failure to try. “I wanted to change the world, but I did not change the curse,” I admit Majica In an interview he made Context Last November. On the other hand, he reached the wisdom: “When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world and now, my home road.”
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world and now, my home road.
But even if it was difficult to get to know, Mujica was moderately satisfied with the life she had to live. “You have lived a happy life. Fill in setbacks, slaughter, and everything a little. but I lived with the reason“, the Acknowledge the newspaper Nation In January.
In October, he announced his farewell, but he did so with hope. “I am an old man very close to withdrawing from the place where he does not become, but I am happy because you are, because When I leave my arms, there will be thousands of weapons to replace the battle He said in my life, the best leaders are those who leave a tape that exceeds them with an advantage. “
From Vaskos and the Italians
Jose Alberto Mogika Cordino was born in Montevido on May 20, 1935. By the patriarchal line, Jose Mogika was from the Bassx descendants, who in 1842 arrived in Uruguay, he grew up in the town of Peskai in Megica; By the mother line, its ancestors are Italian. His father died in 1940, when he was only six years old.
After studying at Paso De La Arena Paso and Lyceum, Montevideo neighborhood, where he was born, he could not end the baccalaureate. In 1956, Majika started the army in the National Party, He became the Secretary -General of Youth. Also known as the White Party, the oldest political party in Uruguay. He defends federal principles, as well as economic freedom and decentralized state.
But the young man wanted Bibi to exceed the limits of the traditional match, very tired of the existing forces. In 1962, He left the National Popular PartyAlong with the Socialist Party in Uruguay and a small group called new rules.
After failing in the polls, in 1964 Join the National Tobamarus Liberation Movement. There he participated in guerrilla warfare and ended up hiding. During the Jorge Pacico Erico government, violence was increasing. In a shooting he got six bullets. During the Uruguay dictatorship, he was arrested four times, twice, escaping from prison.
In total, Mujica spent nearly fifteen years of her life in prison. His last detention lasted in thirteen, between 1972 and 1985. He was one of the leaders of Tobamaros, who was taken by the civilian civil dictatorship as “hostages”, which means that they will be executed if their organization resumed armed activity.
From the word rifle
Bibi regained freedom when he regained his country democratic. It benefited from the pardon granted in 1985. Popular participation movement (MPP), inside amplio freente.
Whoever loves money should not be devoted to politics
In the 1994 elections, he was elected as a deputy by Montevono. Although The feeling “like a vase” said, People caught the attention of people. In 1999, the book “Mujica” was published, by Miguel Angelónico, where life and guerrilla war thought became political. In the same year, Sinator was elected.
In the 2004 elections, MPP was unified as well as the first force within the party’s party. In 2005, it was Mogika Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and FisheriesBut Bibi himself said, “The real minister would be the undersecretary.”
He became moving, catalyst, singer for the word and an opinion. Many of the sectors of citizenship were impressed frankly their curricula, which others considered outsiders of tone or lack of professionalism. namely, It was a honest and exciting Majica.
We forget that development cannot conflict with happiness.
Everything happened in 2009. In May, MPP resigned. In a letter, he announced that “the group’s discipline and administrative bodies are no longer obligated.” In June, he was elected A unique candidate for the head of APLIO FRENTE. In October, in the first round of the elections, Mujica won almost half the votes. In the second round, in November, Luis Alberto Laccal defeated more than 52 % of the sounds.
Bibi, Uruguay President
Bibi, the former guerrilla war, was the president of Uruguay. And I talked about politics, you should make people happy. He said in his speech on the top of the river +20 in 2012: “We forget that development cannot conflict with happiness. This must be in favor of human happiness, love of the earth, human relations, child care, and you have friends, and have primary schools.”
Was Baby to live in the presidential housing of Suarez and Wris? Well not. Majika and his wife, Lucia Tobolanski, They stayed on his farm (farm) In the RINCón Del Cerro, where they devoted themselves to the cultivation of flowers.
In addition, he donated most of his presidential salary for social reasons because of “He who loves money should not devote himself to politics.” like Say to Country In 2014: “When I came out of that (prison), I realized that, to live in a moderate way, it is not required of many utensils and as much as we complicated life. But in the midst of the consumer community, I cannot pretend that people understand that.”
I do not hate, not the confrontation. You have to work for hope.
During his term, Uruguay’s economy is on a good path. In fact, according to the World Bank, the country witnessed a Continuous growth from 2002 to 2015. But the opposition accused Mukica that all this did not translate into significant improvements in public services. In her presidency, abortion was legalized up to 12 weeks, the equal marriage was approved and the organized marijuana was attempted.
Love instead of hatred
When he left in 2015, Bibi continued on the farm. He became a member of the Senate, his position until 2020. That year resigned and announced his withdrawal from politics. Reasons, Covid-19 and its age. In 2020, Mujica was 85 years old. “In politics there is no succession, there are reasons, and Men and women pass, but the reasons remainHe said in a letter of farewell as a member of the Senate.
He learned to lose (losing to reality), but he also learned not to hate. Farewell can say, in the last October act, with a lot of joy:I do not hate, not the confrontation. You have to work for hope. He added: “I must thank life, because when these weapons leave there are thousands of weapons. Thanks for reaching. Even always. “
