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In office, Uruguay’s Jose Mujica was known as the world’s ‘poorest president” for giving away most of his salary and driving an old Volkswagen Beetle – Copyright AFP\/File Pablo PORCIUNCULA<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n

Uruguay\u2019s leftist ex-leader Jose Mujica, once known as the world\u2019s \u201cpoorest president\u201d for giving away most of his salary and driving an old Volkswagen Beetle, revealed Monday he was battling a tumor.<\/p>\n

The 88-year-old told reporters in Montevideo the tumor was discovered on his esophagus last week during a medical checkup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is something obviously very compromising,\u201d he said \u2014 doubly complicated because he suffers from an immune disease that would make radiotherapy and surgery difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the first time the Grim Reaper has been hanging around me,\u201d said Mujica.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time it seems to me that he comes with the scythe at the ready and we will see what happens,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mujica\u2019s personal doctor Raquel Panone said that the tumor has not been confirmed to be malignant, and treatment has yet to be decided on.<\/p>\n

The former guerilla fighter became a cult figure during his 2010-2015 rule, partly for his modest lifestyle.<\/p>\n

On his watch, Uruguay passed a number of progressive laws \u2014 legalizing abortion and gay marriage and becoming the first country in the world to allow recreational cannabis use, in 2013.<\/p>\n

He remains a figurehead of the Broad Front, the leftist coalition in power from 2005 until it was ousted in 2019 elections by center-right leader Luis Lacalle Pou.<\/p>\n

Mujica resigned from frontline politics in 2020, quitting his Senate seat amid the coronavirus epidemic, saying a weakened immune system put him at risk and staying in the office was no alternative to going out and meeting people.<\/p>\n

Mujica was part of the MLN-Tupumaros rebels that waged an insurgency during the 1960s and 70s against democratic governments.<\/p>\n

Though popular, many Uruguayans blamed them for provoking the 1973 military coup that ushered in a dictatorship that lasted until 1985.<\/p>\n

Mujica spent 12 years in prison during that time, much of it in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n

On Monday he offered words of advice to young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to convey to them that life is beautiful and finite\u2026 The crux of succeeding in life is to start over every time one falls,\u201d he said, and urged people to always choose love over hatred.<\/p>\n

As for himself, Mujica said he was grateful for his life, concluding by saying: \u201cNobody can take away the good times I\u2019ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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