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Jose 'Pepe' Mujica - Warrior Philosopher President (Paperback)
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Jose 'Pepe' Mujica - Warrior Philosopher President (Paperback)
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Toward the end of his administration (20102015), then Uruguayan
President Jose Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a
couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de
Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist,
anti-consumerist, anti-globalisation and anti-climate change all
fuelled by a libertarian socialist concept of freedom. This Sancho
Panza-like figure was not only one of the few presidents of
developing countries not to have somehow got personally rich while
in government, but was known to live modestly as a practicing
farmer and gave away two-thirds of his salary to his left-wing
political organisation and to social housing projects. Even more
bizarre was the fact that he had become president of the country
whose government he had tried to overthrow forty years earlier in a
revolutionary guerrilla war, an exploit for which he spent over a
decade in military jails after being shot, severely wounded and
tortured. This book is an introduction to the politics and
philosophy of an unrepentant permanent militant whose evolution
took him from defeated guerrilla warrior to successful presidential
candidate without inconsistencies or betrayals, whatever his
adversaries from right and left may claim. The study sets Mujica
not only in his Uruguayan and Latin American context but also
within an International Left that is coming out of mourning for the
loss of so-called existing socialism as they search for solutions
to lessen the damage done by rampant neoliberal economics and to
find creative alternatives. Stephen Gregory's polemic is essential
reading for all those interested in discovering Uruguay's unique
position in a Latin America where the political right is in decline
and leftist governments are moving to the middle ground.
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