José “Pepe” Mujica Cordano is 76 years old, he
travels in a 1987 Volkswagen, has a three-
legged dog and grows his own vegetables. He
is also the President of a country: Uruguay. Mujica, an ex-guerrillero, lives in the Rincon del
Cerro, a rural neighborhood in the outskirts of
Motevideo, with his wife Lucia, with whom he
shares his garden, his life and his ideals. The
house, called Puebla, has three humid rooms
with grey walls, a big armchair, a modest kitchen and a small library where, amongst
others, one can find the Diary of the Che. Mujica
offered the Presidential palace in the Prado
neighborhood to the homeless, so that there
wouldn’t be many deaths throughout the
winter. Of his monthly salary of 260,259 uruguayan
pesos (almost 12,000USD), Mujica donates
almost 90% of it to charity projects and
foundations as well as to the functioning of his
left-wing party, the “Movimiento de
Participacion Popular” (MPP). This leaves Mujica with approximately
1,000-1,500 USD a month, depending on what
documents you read, but that’s the estimated
sum. The President affirms that “that money
suffices and has to suffice. There are
uruguayans that live with a lot less”. Amongst Mujica’s goals after he came to office in
March 2010, is to tackle the issue of drugs and
their legalization, so as to avoid the lucrative
market of 30-40 million annual dollars from
falling into the hands of smugglers.
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To me the guy isn't poor, look, it is not the size of your income or the car you use the determine how rich or poor you are, but how you are able to manage the income.